Enterprise Solutions Architect

Here at Avanos Medical, we passionately believe in three things:

• Making a difference in our products, services and offers, never ceasing to fight for groundbreaking solutions in everything we do;
• Making a difference in how we work and collaborate, constantly nurturing our nimble culture of innovation;
• Having an impact on the healthcare challenges we all face, and the lives of people and communities around the world.

At Avanos you will find an environment that strives to be independent and different, one that supports and inspires you to excel and to help change what medical devices can deliver, now and in the future.

Avanos is a medical device company focused on delivering clinically superior breakthrough solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. We are committed to creating the next generation of innovative healthcare solutions which will address our most important healthcare needs, such as reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we develop, manufacture and market recognized brands in more than 90 countries.

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The Enterprise Solution Architect defines and governs enterprise technology solutions that align business strategy with Avanos' technology landscape and long-term objectives. With SAP S/4

HANA as Avanos' core ERP platform, this role serves as the technical design authority across enterprise applications, business processes, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, and security. The role develops roadmaps, leads cross-functional solution design, guides technology investments, and provides technology leadership for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and divestitures.

• Define enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps, including the strategic roadmap for SAP S/4
  
  HANA and its supporting ecosystem.
• Assess the technology landscape and identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, standardization, reuse, and cost optimization.
• Translate business capabilities into current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Evaluate technology investments and recommend whether platforms should be retained, enhanced, consolidated, replaced, or retired.

• Lead end-to-end enterprise solution design with SAP S/4
  
  HANA as the core ERP, integrated with enterprise applications, data, cloud services, infrastructure, and security.
• Lead cross-functional SAP solution design with strong depth in Supply Chain and Order-to-Cash, ensuring alignment across Finance, Procure-to-Pay, Manufacturing, Quality, Warehouse Management, Transportation, master data, integrations, controls, and reporting.
• Promote standard SAP functionality and ensure designs address data integrity, performance, availability, recovery, scalability, and supportability.
• Provide architectural oversight through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Review vendor proposals and solution designs for business and technical fit, cost, risk, integration impact, and alignment with enterprise standards.

• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to business and IT leadership and communicate complex decisions in clear business terms.
• Provide technical direction to SAP functional leads, developers, integration specialists, data teams, cloud engineers, infrastructure teams, and implementation partners.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews, resolve architectural issues, and promote consistent engineering practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, cloud services, and digital platforms, based on business value, maturity, risk, and organizational readiness.

• Lead architecture governance, including design reviews, standards compliance, technology lifecycle management, and exception management.
• Ensure solutions comply with corporate security, privacy, data, quality, and regulatory requirements, including SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, GxP, computer system validation, electronic records and signatures, and data integrity.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, platform dependencies, resiliency concerns, and lifecycle issues, and define mitigation plans.
• Maintain architecture decisions, standards, diagrams, roadmaps, and supporting…