Enterprise Architect

Groupe SII; Toronto; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in biotech is seeking an Enterprise Architect to drive technology strategy and governance within the R&D environment. The role involves overseeing large-scale initiatives, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align architecture with business objectives. This position requires extensive experience in enterprise architecture, particularly within pharmaceutical settings, and a deep understanding of digital transformation in research.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, 5+ in pharma/biotech R&D.
• Experience with GxP compliance and regulated systems.
• Ability to build proof of concept applications for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology and information strategy for product portfolios.
• Lead digital transformation initiatives and cloud migration strategies.
• Ensure compliance across scientific computing systems.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Digital transformation

Cloud Computing

Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence

Data architecture

Governance

Lean-agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

TOGAF

SAFe framework

Open Agile Architecture standard

Job description

• Play a key role in the strategic planning on domain, product line and product level by establishing a technology and information strategy and roadmap that enables a portfolio to support current and future business capabilities connecting the business and IT strategy.
• You are a Lean Portfolio Governance member and provide inputs to portfolio prioritization decisions.
• You drive the design, engineering, reuse of applications or patterns, which includes the creation of Enabler Epics for the architectures that comprise the solutions in a portfolio; ensuring a continuous flow of value and improving the time to market.
• You have a focus on reusable technology and information to maintain the architectural runway leveraging a composable architecture (i.e. creating reliable easy to compose and consume components).
• You drive the continuous improvement of the quality of products within your domain, the research and examination of new technologies including the feasibility assessment that provide insights on the scalability and cross domain usage.
• You support the development of lean business cases and monitor the domain, product line and products for new demands.
• Put a strong focus on enabling the flow and access on information and manage the information security in the domain, product line and products you are supporting in order to optimize the information and data sharing across the enterprise.
• You follow a lean-agile governance approach in support of agile teams, enabling decentralized decision making to balance between intentional architecture and emergent design, promoting architecture practices such as recording architectural decisions and architectural assessments.
• You manage the evolution of the domain IT Landscape and ensure it enables the business strategies. You document and maintain the current and future / desired IT landscape in collaboration with solution architects of the domain, product line, products you are supporting.
• You guide and coach implementation teams and solution architects on the technical architecture implementation activities, particularly for new and / or shared solutions.
• You continuously collaborate across and among all architecture groups and product teams to adjust and evolve architecture guardrails (including architecture principles, reference models; patterns, decision frameworks), architecture practices and metrics (e.g. enabling flow and business outcome).
• Perform the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required to ensure that information systems are designed and evolve appropriately.

Academic requirements :

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• A certification or detailed knowledge of the TOGAF architecture framework or comparable architecture methodologies is a plus.
• A certification or detailed knowledge of the SAFe framework or comparable agile delivery methodologies is a plus such as the Open Agile Architecture standard.
• A certification or detailed knowledge in the area of Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a plus.

Experience :

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, with at least 5 years in pharmaceutical / biotech R&D environments, demonstrating successful delivery of large-scale scientific computing and data platform initiatives.
• Proven track record of architecting and implementing regulated systems in pharma / biotech, including LIMS, ELN, scientific data lakes, and clinical trial platforms while ensuring compliance with GxP requirements.
• Extensive experience leading digital transformation initiatives in research environments, including cloud migration strategies, laboratory automation programs, and implementation of AI / ML capabilities in research & regulated environments.
• 3+ years of experience of managing architecture on department level.
• Ability to build / create proof of concept / pilot applications to showcase platform functionality to business partners / stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of business drivers in making trade-off analyses to support architectural decisions.
• Leads enterprise-wide technology architecture across R&D platforms, ensuring seamless integration between scientific computing systems, laboratory workflows, and enterprise applications while maintaining GxP compliance.
• Designs and oversees the implementation of scalable data architectures that enable effective management of complex research data, supporting AI / ML capabilities and ensuring compliance with data principles.
• Partners with scientific stakeholders to translate research requirements into technical solutions, with deep understanding of research and lab informatics processes and regulatory frameworks.
• Provides strategic leadership in technology planning and governance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align architecture roadmaps with R&D objectives while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

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