As Principal Architect, IT Transformation, Territory Management and Incentive Compensation (TMIC), you will be responsible for the planning, coordination and successful delivery and deployments of Sales Performance Management (SPM) applications (Varicent & SAP Commissions) across all Stryker divisions, functions, and regions. This position plays a key role in coordinating communication across various business groups, IT technical teams, business analysts, Enterprise Architecture, and System Integrator(s) and provides leadership direction to Stryker Commercial team on SPM best practices, reusability to ensure smooth release of commercial application on stage and production environment.

Who we Want

Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.

Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data, and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions.

Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.

What you will do

• Lead design, configuration, development, testing and deployment activities. These responsibilities will be distributed across Projects and Release Cycles. Additionally, the responsible for the delivery of approved projects through the project management framework.

• End-to-end ownership of the design, development, testing, deployment of the SPM Platforms (Varicent & SAP Commissions) products to help drive overall strategy and roadmap in TMIC space.

• Lead and direct the work of Technical Solution Leads, Technical Solution Analysts and Solution Architects and Vendor teams.

• Work closely with System Integrator(s) to ensure alignment of key program activities and milestones for deployment and production releases.

• Manage and coordinate with strategic suppliers, System integrator and deployment partners through the entire SDLC to ensure they meet the contractual deliverables and agreed-upon timelines, and quality/performance metrics.

• Drive the Solution Reviews and Design decisions, technical approvals across the application area, and alignment of scope for all types of releases in end-to-end product lifecycle.

• Formulate deployment strategies to ensure reliability and scalability for Stryker systems.

• Develops and builds robust collaboration with infrastructure, middleware, security, governance, and service delivery as needed.

• Works closely with Service Delivery teams to ensure implementation of post-production support model and processes.

• Ensures timely escalation and mitigation of issues and risks to ensure a smooth deployment process.

What you Need

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in the areas of Computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent field of study required.

• 8+ years of professional IT experience required with 8+ years of experience in Sales Performance management (SPM) tools like Varicent/SAP Commissions required.

• Experience in leading SPM projects, setting priorities and plans to meet business objectives is required.

• Experience in TMIC/SPM platforms including Incentive Management, Territory and Quota planning processes with direct experience in global system rollouts required, preferably experience with SPM Solutions like Varicent, SAP Commissions platform.

• Experience with upstream/downstream processes likes master data management, Sales processes, Reporting and Payroll.