IT Director - Enterprise Architecture

About the Role

As the IT Director of Enterprise Architecture at Zimmer Biomet, you will provide global leadership for the company’s enterprise architecture capability. This role partners with global business and IT leaders to define, communicate, and operationalize enterprise architecture vision, strategy, standards, and roadmaps that enable business transformation, technology simplification, AI readiness, security, scalability, and sustainable growth. You will advance architecture governance processes, including the Enterprise Architecture Resource Board and the new global Enterprise Architecture Council, to improve decision quality, strengthen global alignment, and ensure architecture decisions support enterprise priorities.

The role requires a strong enterprise architecture background, credible thought leadership, and the ability to drive change across a complex, global, and matrixed organization. You may lead employees, contractors, and/or outsourced resources and will influence senior stakeholders, architects, solution owners, and delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mature the global Enterprise Architecture function, including architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, operating model, governance practices, and enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Organize, facilitate, and continuously improve the Enterprise Architecture Resource Board and the global Enterprise Architecture Council to drive consistent, transparent, and business-aligned architecture decisions.
• Partner with global business, IT, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, applications, and manufacturing technology leaders to align technology direction with business priorities, transformation programs, and long-range strategic plans.
• Provide enterprise architecture thought leadership by evaluating emerging technologies, industry practices, and modernization opportunities that create measurable business value.
• Drive change across the organization by influencing stakeholders, strengthening architecture discipline, guiding solution teams, and promoting adoption of common standards, reusable patterns, and globally scalable solutions.
• Identify and communicate architectural risk, technical debt, capability gaps, and opportunities for simplification, including application rationalization, platform consolidation, and technology lifecycle planning.
• Mentor architects and technical leaders; build architecture capability, decision-making maturity, and a high-performing global architecture community.
• Support portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and major technology initiatives by providing clear architectural recommendations, options, trade-offs, and measurable success criteria.

Requirements

• Demonstrated senior-level enterprise architecture leadership skills in a complex, global, and matrixed IT organization.
• Strong enterprise architecture background with practical experience applying architecture frameworks, governance models, standards, and roadmap development.
• Proven ability to establish and lead architecture review boards, councils, or equivalent governance forums that improve technology decision quality.
• Ability to translate business strategy into architecture direction, capability roadmaps, and practical execution guidance for global teams.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in technology modernization, cloud, data, security, integration, application rationalization, AI enablement, and digital transformation.
• Advanced communication, facilitation, interpersonal, and presentation skills with the proven ability to influence effectively globally and across functional lines.
• Experience successfully building, managing, motivating, and mentoring architects, technical leaders, employees, contractors, and/or outsourced resources.
• Demonstrated use of metrics, architectural principles, decision records, and governance outcomes to measure adoption, value, risk reduction, and continuous improvement.
• Keen understanding of budgets, portfolio trade-offs, business value measurement, and Zimmer Biomet’s global business and competitive environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field required.
• Master’s degree in business, technology, or related field preferred; enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF preferred.
• 10+ years of related professional experience, including significant experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture, governance, and global transformation leadership.

Schedule

Travel expectations: Up to 20%.

Pay

Expected compensation: $185,000–$230,000 base salary. Comprehensive bonus and long-term incentives (LTI) also provided.

Benefits

• Development opportunities and robust employee resource groups (ERGs).
• Flexible working environment.
• Location-specific competitive total rewards and wellness incentives.
• Culture of recognition and performance awards.