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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Our team at Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), is united by a commitment to collaboration and scientific excellence, building on a strong foundation of innovation, expertise, and reliability. Guided by our vision to help researchers rapidly move from the lab to life-changing advances, we work closely with global partners to accelerate progress and genomics breakthroughs across fields like cancer, infectious disease, rare genetic disorders, and more. At IDT, you’ll be part of a culture rooted in continuous learning and improvement—where your growth fuels our mission to accelerate the pace of genomics and helps shape a healthier, brighter future for all.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The IT Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise‑wide technology architecture to enable business strategy, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. This role provides architecture leadership across applications, data, integration, cloud, and AI platforms, ensuring coherent, future‑proof decisions across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect acts as a strategic advisor to business and IT leaders, partners with Solution and Platform Architects, and serves as a key decision maker in architecture governance forums.
This position reports to VP, Business Transformation and IT and is part of the IT Organization located in Coralville, IA or Fargo, ND and will be on‑site in either of these two locations.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Define and evolve enterprise architecture vision, principles, and target‑state roadmaps across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders on technology investments, modernization options, and trade‑offs.
- Provide architectural leadership for major programs and platform decisions, ensuring alignment to business strategy, risk posture, and technology standards.
- Establish and operate architecture governance (e.g., architecture review boards), including decision records, standards, reference architectures, and exceptions.
- Partner with business and IT leaders to translate strategic priorities into capability‑based architectures and sequenced transformation plans.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, and improve interoperability and operability.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of experience in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
- 7+ Years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or platform strategy within complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to create and govern standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross‑functional architectural decisions
- Strong communication skills, including ability to articulate trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 25% for stakeholder engagement and site/program support
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Enterprise Architecture frameworks and modeling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, capability and process modeling)
- Experience with large‑scale modernization and cloud transformation programs and in regulated industries and designing controls for security, privacy, and compliance.
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms (ERP/CRM), digital channels, and data/analytics ecosystems.
IDT, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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