Job Description As a key member of the Digital & IT department, you will design and implement Brainlab’s overall IT architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and supporting transformation initiatives. You will manage architecture standards, optimize systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and drive innovation. Your main tasks are: Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture (EA) framework to align IT strategy with business objectives. Define long-term technology roadmaps and assess emerging technologies for business relevance. Prepare and deliver presentations to executive leadership and the board on architecture initiatives. Transform enterprise architecture : Establish cutting-edge enterprise architecture patterns to harmonize systems, standardize IT processes and technologies, and manage complex, established workflows. Your mission will be to transform these into simplified, streamlined, fully digital processes that boost operational efficiency and foster alignment across the organization. Think beyond IT: Bridge the gap between IT, R&D and Production to create an enterprise architecture, that includes the needs of a medical technology manufacturing company, e.g. MES/MOS or PLM and other related systems. Enterprise Solution Design: Provide oversight and guidance on the development of system architectures, including integration, data, application, and technology domains. Drive our journey to cloud with your strong background in cloud transformation. Ensure alignment between solution designs and the overall enterprise architecture. Performance Optimization: Drive continuous improvement by analyzing the performance of IT systems and recommending enhancements. Ensure solutions are cost-effective, scalable, and meet performance expectations. Ensure Governance: Establish and enforce standards, guidelines, and policies for architecture across the enterprise. Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure solutions adhere to architectural principles. Risk Management: Identify and address architectural risks and ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards. Monitor technology trends to mitigate risks of obsolescence. Leadership, Integration & Collaboration: Lead cross-functional teams in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide technology solutions. Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external vendors to understand requirements, break up “silos”, support integration and deliver scalable solutions. Act as a bridge between technical teams and business leaders to articulate architectural strategies and solutions. Build data & business intelligence capabilities: Support the development of our data, business intelligence and machine learning capabilities, promote data-driven thinking, and transform complex, established processes into streamlined, digitally optimized ones that create real added value. Use data pragmatically to simplify, harmonize and elevate our customer data utilization to create a fully integrated customer journey