Business Architect Source & Plan

Overview

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

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Job Function: Technology Enterprise Strategy & Security

Job Sub Function: Enterprise Architecture

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Zug, Switzerland

The Business Architect – Source & Plan is accountable for defining and evolving the target business capability architecture for Source & Plan within the end‑to‑end Supply Chain.

While functionally aligned to Source & Plan
, this role operates horizontally across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Enterprise functions
, ensuring that capabilities, data, and digital investments work together to deliver scalable, compliant, and resilient outcomes.

The role acts as a capability steward and architectural integrator
, translating business strategy into coherent capability roadmaps and guiding cross‑functional initiatives through architecture governance.

• Capability Architecture Ownership (Source & Plan)

  • Define, maintain, and evolve the L1–L3 business capability architecture for Source and Plan, independent of systems or organizational structure.

  • Ensure capability definitions are stable, outcome‑oriented, and reusable across regions and products.

• Own capability dependencies and interfaces with adjacent domains (Manufacturing, Quality, Deliver, Finance).

• Cross‑Functional & Value Stream Architecture

  • Actively operate across end‑to‑end value streams (e.g., Sense & Shape Demand, Promise to Customer, Manufacture & Release etc), identifying cross‑functional constraints and architectural trade‑offs.

  • Partner with Business Product Owners to ensure initiatives optimize value flow
    , not local functional efficiency.

• Translate value‑stream performance gaps into capability‑level interventions
  .

• Architecture Governance & ARB Leadership

  • Serve as the single accountable Business Architect for Source & Plan initiatives entering architecture governance forums.

  • Lead architecture assessments, ensuring alignment to:

    • Enterprise capability standards

    • Data and integration principles

    • Target‑state ecosystem architecture.

• Clearly articulate architectural impacts, options, and trade‑offs to senior stakeholders and ARB members.

• Digital & Data Alignment

  • Connect Source & Plan ways of working to digital, data, and AI capabilities
    , ensuring solutions are compliant, scalable, and explainable.

  • Partner closely with Technology, Information, and DS/AI Architects to align on:

    • Integration and data flows

    • Data ownership and semantics

• Innovation‑to‑scale pathways

• Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a trusted advisor to Source & Plan leaders on capability maturity, investment prioritization, and architectural direction.

  • Influence across global, regional, and enterprise teams.

  • Maintain awareness of external trends and emerging technologies relevant to Source & Plan ecosystems.

• Required: Collaboration, Architecture governance, and cross‑functional leadership.

• Preferred
  
  Skills:
  
  Collaborating, Continuous Improvement, Developing Others, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise IT Architecture, Enterprise IT Governance, Inclusive Leadership, Information Security Management System (ISMS), Information Technology Strategies, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Process Improvements, Solution Architecture, System Integration, Tactical Planning, Team Management, Technologically Savvy

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This description keeps the original language and responsibilities focused on the role for Source & Plan within Johnson & Johnson.