Job description

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. For more than 50 years, we have established a remarkable track record around that innovation: Work that enables clinicians around the world to enhance and save lives. We are experiencing massive growth, and this is your opportunity to make a big impact.

This is an exciting opportunity within Edwards Lifesciences’ IT organization to help lead the implementation of Wonderware System Platform and OMI across our multiple, global manufacturing plants, as we transform to a Smart Manufacturing environment.

The Senior Architect is a technical (not functional nor solutions) role. It will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing solutions that improve business process efficiencies and accuracy within the Edwards’ Manufacturing Execution System. Our goal is to cultivate an IT SCADA ecosystem that is scalable, extensible, interoperable, adaptable to the business, and aligned with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization.

You will report to the IT Manufacturing SCADA and MES team and will also work closely with the Global Supply Chain organization. You will also advise the business units on industry best practices, processes, and system improvements for manufacturing execution, electronic DHR, and lean line enablement.

Our ideal candidate has hands-on architecture experience, domain expertise, and strong communication skills. This will require some international travel.

Responsibilities:
Lead and/or manage Wonderware SCADA implementation projects with hundreds of users

Lead efforts to optimize/configure the Wonderware System Platform and OMI. This is to re-engineer the shop floor business process to enable an electronic DHR with a lean line perspective.

Identify and define the opportunities, and select tools, for innovation, with a bias towards configuring ready-to-use solutions. This includes specifying the shared data & code resources, defining the interfaces and dataflows, and monitoring the success of the integration into the existing IT environment

Lead training and knowledge transfer sessions that empower users and super-users to leverage IT systems for business process automation and optimization

Serve as peer mentor for junior level system analysts on the team

Serve as liaison between business process owners in IT and Global Supply Chain

Work with stakeholders in developing ROI-based business cases for enhancements and small projects

Identify and define the opportunities, and select tools, for innovation. This includes specifying the shared data & code resources, defining the interfaces and dataflows, and monitoring the success of the integration into the existing IT environment

Provide oversight to ensure compliance with architectural standards and practices through all aspects of planning, execution, and operation

Up to 35% international and domestic travel required

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

10+ years of experience in IT or software development

5+ years of experience in an architect role, or architect systems, within an enterprise system

2+ years of experience in Manufacturing IT, or Smart Manufacturing

2+ years working on cloud infrastructure components (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Strong Windows machines and network management skill

Experience with integrating multiple enterprise systems for real-time processing and transactions

Prior experience working in complex global business environment with multi-language requirements

Strong oral and written communications skills, and ability to develop and maintain business/technical documentation, and strong interpersonal, and analytical skills required

Ability to adapt to new technologies and a rapidly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree

Experience working in an FDA regulated industry; and FDA guidelines for Software Quality and Systems Validation

Implementing/configuring/supporting Wonderware SCADA from a functional architect perspective

Lean Six Sigma experience

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $123,000 to $174,000 (highly experienced). The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it’s our life’s work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to complying with the requirements and guidance from our government authorities and to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them around the world. As such, all Healthcare Interacting positions require COVID-19 vaccination, which includes anyone who directly interfaces with patients and those who interact with healthcare providers as part of their role. If hired, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in countries where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination. In countries where vaccines are less available, or other requirements exist, we may institute alternate measures that optimize patient safety and healthcare provider safety, which may include regular COVID testing or specific masking requirements.

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