Director, Enterprise Architecture - Commercial

* Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy and regulatory requirements.
* Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide solutions, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and compliance.
* Advise senior leadership on technology trends, risks, and opportunities, translating business needs into actionable architecture.
* Facilitate architecture governance, standards, and best practices across teams and projects.
* Mentor and guide solution architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.
* Quantify and communicate the business value of architectural decisions. Demonstrate business acumen and quantify the impact of architectural decisions.
* Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and change management in support of business outcomes.
* Collaborate with platform engineering, data & AI, and other horizontal teams to ensure cohesive delivery.
* Be the trusted voice for the enterprise as it relates to technical architecture - operate as a strategic advisor, not just a technologist.
* Mentor more junior colleagues and provide them with guidance and growth opportunities.
* Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
* Directs and proposes Enterprise Architecture fit for new and existing technical components.
* Understands customers’ operational needs and helps to drive strategic direction.
* Anticipates internal/external business and regulatory/compliance issues that impact the system design.
* Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the targeted business outcomes.
* Accountable for the formulation of solution implementation approach, building consensus on approach, and providing technical execution oversight of such solutions.
* Influences management/senior staff decisions via focused innovation engineering exercises and proof-based experimentation.
* Knowledgeable about the regulatory constraints of leveraging cloud solutions in the healthcare industry with input from others.
* Understands modern cloud architecture best practices.
* Bachelor’s Degree from accredited institution and 8+ years of relevant experience or a Master's degree plus 7+ years of experience or a PHD plus 5+ years of experience.
* Demonstrated experience with cloud solutions (i.e.: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure)
* Strong interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrated ability to translate marketing material into actionable and understandable truth.
* An “execution mindset” focused on getting things done quickly and simply.
* Demonstrated experience with one or more core platforms (Adobe AEM, Salesforce)
* 3+ years of business domain expertise in one more research and /or product development areas in Life sciences or related industry
* AWS /Azure cloud architect certification
* Experience with multiple software delivery models
* Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
* Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
* Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
* Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
* Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization’s digital business strategies.
* Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
* Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
* Arbitrates disagreements among solution…