Enterprise Architect

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Summary:

Vantive’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team partners with business and technology leaders to shape our future technology landscape, drive platform standards, and ensure secure, compliant, and scalable solutions for patient centric outcomes. As an Enterprise Architect (China), you will lead architecture strategy and governance for China initiatives, create reference architectures and roadmaps, and guide our business to align to Vantive’s EA guiding principles.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architecture strategy & roadmaps: Develop current to target state architectures and multi horizon roadmaps for China business and technology domains; align with global reference architectures and standards.

• Reference architectures & patterns: Author and maintain reusable patterns (integration/data/security) fit for China needs (e.g., hosting, connectivity, localization) and ensure adoption by solution teams.

• Governance & Architecture Review Board (ARB) engagement: Run lightweight, outcome focused architecture reviews; triage architectural significance, enable peer reviews, and escalate high risk items through EA workflows.

• Solution coaching & design assurance: Partner with product, engineering, Business Relationship Managers (BRM), security, and data teams to ensure designs meet non functional requirements (scalability, reliability, security, compliance).

• China localization & compliance awareness: Inform architecture choices considering China data privacy (PIPL), cybersecurity (MLPS), and cross border data transfer constraints; partner with Legal/Privacy.

• Portfolio & standards enablement: Contribute to technology standards, capability maps, application portfolio management artifacts, and blueprints; provide inputs to investment planning.

• Stakeholder engagement: Communicate clearly with senior leaders and delivery teams, translating business strategy into technology choices and measurable outcomes.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience producing target state architectures, roadmaps, and reference patterns, and driving their adoption at scale

• Strong knowledge of cloud (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), APIs/integration, data & analytics, security & compliance

• Excellent facilitation and communication skills in Mandarin and English

• Ability to work across time zones and lead through influence in a matrixed environment

• Ability to organize and present technical status to senior management.

• Ability to influence management on courses of action using both written and verbal methods. Effective oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated success in delivering results on several technical challenges.

• Passionate about continuous learning and constantly keeps up with industry trends. Leverages current technology and processes for creating highly innovative software solutions that can be introduced in the marketplace in the time needed.

• Believes in her/his ability to successfully take on new and difficult challenges, question the status quo and take risks.

• Brings a can-do attitude to work and inspires others to raise their performance bar, highly organized.

Background and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years in architecture (enterprise, solution, or platform) with hands on design across application, data, and integration layers

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated technical expertise and domain experience

• Experience with regulated industries (e.g., life sciences/med tech) and validation friendly patterns

• Familiarity with EA governance models, Architecture Review Boards, capability mapping, Application Portfolio Management, and reference architecture libraries

• Familiarity with deploying technology that adheres to China data/privacy and connectivity considerations (e.g., PIPL aligned design choices)

• Certifications (e.g., TOGAF, cloud architect) are a plus

Reasonable Accommodation

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