Enterprise Solution Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC

Hybrid

16-24 months Project

The Enterprise Solution Architect partners across business units, technology leadership, and external stakeholders to design scalable, future-proof architectures that drive client's mission: enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. This role demands an architect who can walk into a boardroom as confidently as a design review bridging strategy, science, and systems thinking.

You will be a trusted advisor to business leaders, translating ambiguous commercial and scientific requirements into coherent architectural roadmaps owning the conversation end-to-end from discovery through delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Business Engagement & Strategic Architecture

• Serve as the primary technology partner to senior business leaders across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Specialty Diagnostics divisions, participating in strategic planning, operating reviews, and investment decisions.
• Translate business strategies and scientific workflows into enterprise architecture blueprints, ensuring alignment with the client's multi-year digital transformation agenda.
• Lead architecture discovery workshops, business capability mapping sessions, and solution visioning engagements with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders.
• Own the articulation of technology value propositions to non-technical audiences synthesizing ROI, risk trade-offs, and build/buy/partner recommendations into executive-ready communications.
• Proactively identify business problems and white-space opportunities where enterprise architecture can unlock competitive differentiation.

Solution Design & Technical Leadership

• Design enterprise-scale solutions spanning cloud infrastructure, integration platforms, data architecture, and SaaS/COTS applications in alignment with TOGAF and client's Architecture Review Board standards.
• Define reference architectures for strategic programs including ERP transformation, laboratory informatics, supply chain digitization, and scientific data platforms.
• Drive architecture governance: establish patterns, guardrails, and reusable building blocks that accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt across business units.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies (AI/ML, IoT, digital twins, cloud-native) in the context of real scientific and operational business problems.
• Collaborate with solution delivery teams, product owners, and vendors to ensure architectural intent is faithfully realized through implementation.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Build and sustain trusted relationships across IT, R&D, Commercial Operations, Finance, Regulatory, and Manufacturing functioning as the connective tissue between business strategy and technical execution.
• Represent enterprise architecture in program steering committees, technology councils, and cross-divisional forums.
• Mentor and develop a community of architects across the global technology organization, fostering a culture of architectural excellence.
• Partner with procurement and vendor management to shape enterprise technology agreements and strategic partnership frameworks.

Qualifications

Required

• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or technology strategy roles within large, complex organizations.
• Proven track record of direct engagement with senior business stakeholders (VP/C-suite) you are at home in a business conversation, not just a technical one.
• Deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent) with demonstrated ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), enterprise integration (APIs, ESB, event-driven architecture), and hybrid IT environments.
• Strong command of data architecture principles, including master data management, data governance, analytics platforms, and AI/ML integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality architecture artifacts (blueprints, roadmaps, decision records, capability models) for diverse audiences.
• Experience in regulated industry environments life sciences, pharma, diagnostics, medical devices, or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; Master's degree preferred.

Preferred

• TOGAF certification (Architect or Enterprise level) or equivalent architecture certification.
• Experience with laboratory informatics platforms (LIMS, ELN, scientific data management) or supply chain systems in a life sciences context.
• Familiarity with GxP compliance, 21 CFR Part 11, and data integrity requirements in regulated environments.
• Prior consulting or advisory experience at a global systems integrator or technology firm.
• Experience leading architecture practices or centers of excellence within a matrixed global enterprise.