Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture

IT accelerates the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable and innovative solutions and leadership. We are a global organization that supports all technology needed to deliver products and solutions to customers enabling them to focus on delivering high quality patient care. We strive to provide exceptional customer service and experience in the most efficient means possible, requiring alignment and cross-functional communication.

The Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture will shape and govern IDEXX’s enterprise technology ecosystem, aligning target-state architecture across core platforms, including ERP, CRM, commercial diagnostic platforms, laboratory information systems (LIMS), cloud data platforms, and integration layers. Working closely with the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & AI, this role establishes the visibility, standards, and future-state direction IDEXX needs to make coordinated technology decisions across its business units, standing up the foundational capabilities of a new EA practice: an enterprise-wide architecture inventory, business capability maps, and the principles and standards that turn a future-state vision into practical guidance for delivery teams.

The role carries no direct reports, but coordinates a Center of Excellence of domain and solution architects across IDEXX’s business lines who contribute a portion of their time to enterprise architecture, without formal reporting authority over them. This person will operate with a high degree of autonomy, setting priorities and driving outcomes independently while keeping leadership informed.

• Build and maintain the enterprise architecture inventory in Ardoq, applications, owners, costs, risks, and lifecycle status, establishing the architecture visibility IDEX currently lacks.
• Develop business capability maps that connect IDEXX’s technology landscape to the value it creates, providing the business context needed to prioritize investment.
• Define future-state architecture and the principles, standards, and exception process that translate that vision into actionable guidance for delivery teams.
• Embed enterprise architecture into the Software Realization Framework (SRF), chairing a lightweight Architecture Review Board that operates through SRF checkpoints rather than as a separate approval gate, so architectural input shapes Tier 1 initiatives before funding and direction are committed.
• Partner with the EA Center of Excellence, domain and solution architects across Reference Labs, Commercial, Vet Soft, Diagnostics, and Vet Connect+, to align enterprise standards with delivery reality and champion shared foundations (data standards, integration patterns, identity management) that move IDEXX from a Diversification model toward Coordination with selective Unification.
• Lead ongoing application portfolio rationalization as the inventory and standards mature, retiring redundant systems, decoupling legacy monoliths, and optimizing total cost of ownership.
• Mentor and develop the architects across the Center of Excellence, sharing practices and building enterprise architecture capability across the organization, without formal reporting authority over them.
• Communicate architecture direction, trade-offs, and progress clearly to both delivery teams and senior leadership, including the Senior Leadership Team as needed.
• Track and report the measurable outcomes of the EA practice, reduced rework, reduced duplicate systems, and faster delivery, tying architecture activity to business results rather than volume of documents produced.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field…