IT Enterprise Solutions Architect

Who We Are

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Position Summary:
We are seeking a hands-on, strategically minded

Enterprise Architect / Solutions Architect to design and operationalize Flagship’sEnterprise IT Framework—a comprehensive model that connects business processes, systems, data, and governance across the organization. This role will play a central part in aligning enterprise architecture to Flagship’s IT strategy, enabling scalable growth, data-driven decision making, and operational efficiency across all business functions.

The role combines strategic architecture designwithtechnical execution. The successful candidate will define the enterprise operating model, implement data and application governance practices, and build out a unified architecture that integrates process standardization, systems interoperability, and master data management.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and govern the Enterprise IT Framework—linking business processes, applications, data, and governance mechanisms across the enterprise.
• Define the Purpose and Objectives of the framework, ensuring all technology investments and operational processes align with Flagship’s strategic outcomes.
• Establish core architectural layers(Business Process, Application & Systems, Data & MDM) and integrate them into the IT operating model.
• Lead collaboration across IT, Finance, HR, and Operations to align technology with business capabilities and process maturity.
• Develop an execution roadmap for continuous improvement and scalability.

• Map enterprise business capabilities and identify process standardization and integration opportunities.
• Build and maintain the application architecture blueprint, defining systems of record, systems of engagement, and integration touchpoints.
• Support application lifecycle management, including rationalization, consolidation, and modernization initiatives.
• Partner with business process owners to ensure system design aligns with operational needs and strategic priorities.

• Lead the establishment of Master Data Management (MDM) practices and supporting technology.
• Define data ownership, stewardship, and quality standards across key domains (Employee, Vendor, Customer, Product, etc.).
• Partner with business and IT teams to enforce consistent data creation, validation, and integration across systems.
• Support analytics and reporting functions by ensuring data integrity, compliance, and accessibility.

• Stand up anIT Governance Committee and associated architecture review processes.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide
  
  IT policies, standards, and procedures, covering…