Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture, Global Commercial & Medical IT

Biogen, Inc.; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 348,000 - 488,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work allowance

Life insurance

Pension program contributions

Mental health resources

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development funds

Job summary

Biogen, Inc. seeks an Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture to define and govern the technology architecture for Global Commercial & Medical.

You will own target-state architecture, capability roadmaps, and integration strategy across platforms, ensuring alignment with business strategy, regulatory expectations, and compliance. You will collaborate with global business and IT leaders, translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, and guide architecture decisions to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years IT experience, preferably global/enterprise.
• 3–5+ years in architecture leadership roles (EA, SA).
• Strong experience in EA and SA within life sciences or regulated industry.
• Experience supporting Commercial/Medical domains with regulatory and global needs.
• Deep knowledge of integration patterns, data architecture, APIs, event-driven design.
• Ability to translate priorities into target-state architecture and roadmaps.
• Familiarity with TOGAF/ArchiMate or equivalent modeling frameworks.
• Leadership, communication, and stakeholder management across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern GCM enterprise architecture standards across Commercial & Medical IT.
• Lead integration and data architecture strategy with scalable, secure patterns.
• Develop multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities and capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the application portfolio and reduce fragmentation.
• Provide thought leadership on cloud, automation, data products, AI/ML, and security controls.
• Mentor solution architects and delivery teams to promote best practices.
• Represent GCM in enterprise architecture forums and align with cross-functional decisions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

TOGAF/ArchiMate

APIs & integration

Data architecture

Security & compliance

Leadership & influence

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Advanced degree (MS/MBA)

Tools

Salesforce

Veeva

Snowflake

Azure

Enterprise integration tools

Job description

About This Role

Biogen is seeking an accomplished Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture to define and govern the technology architecture supporting our Global Commercial & Medical (GCM) organization. This senior individual-contributor role ensures technology solutions align with business strategy, regulatory expectations, and compliance requirements while delivering secure, scalable, and business-value-driven outcomes. As the lead architect for the Commercial and Medical domains, you will own the target-state architecture, business capability roadmap, and integration strategy across a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications. You will proactively identify capability gaps, reduce duplication and fragmentation, and guide architecture decisions that improve speed-to-market, reduce risk, and strengthen long-term technology scalability. Working closely with business and IT leaders, you will translate strategic priorities — including new product launches, international expansion, acquisitions, omnichannel engagement, and medical communications — into actionable technology roadmaps. This role is critical to simplifying the GCM technology landscape, enabling innovation, and ensuring Commercial & Medical platforms are future-ready.

What You’ll Do

Define and govern GCM enterprise architecture standards across Commercial & Medical IT, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security, compliance, and business strategy. Serve as the primary architecture leader for strategic GCM initiatives, shaping early solution designs and guiding key architectural decisions to ensure alignment with the target-state architecture. Lead GCM integration and data architecture strategy, defining how systems connect through scalable, secure patterns such as APIs, event-driven architecture, data-sharing models, and enterprise data flows. Develop multi-year enterprise architecture and business capability roadmaps that guide the evolution of Commercial & Medical platforms in line with business priorities, value streams, and capability needs. Identify opportunities to simplify and rationalize the application portfolio, including reducing overlapping systems, improving integration quality, lowering total cost of ownership, and avoiding unnecessary technology fragmentation. Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, including cloud services, automation, data products, AI/ML, and generative AI, evaluating their fit for GCM business needs and integrating high-value capabilities with the appropriate security and compliance controls. Partner with cross-functional IT teams, including enterprise integration, data and analytics, security, infrastructure, delivery, and platform teams, to ensure architecture decisions are practical, scalable, and executable. Mentor and guide solution architects, platform architects, technical leads, and delivery teams to drive consistency in solution design and adoption of architecture best practices. Represent GCM in enterprise architecture forums, ensuring Commercial & Medical priorities are considered in cross-functional technology decisions.

Who You Are

You are a strategic enterprise architect who understands how technology decisions create business value. You bring the ability to connect business strategy, capability needs, platform architecture, data flows, and delivery execution into a clear, actionable technology direction. You are comfortable operating as a senior advisor and influencer across global business and IT teams. You can simplify complex technology topics for non-technical stakeholders, guide teams through ambiguity, and drive alignment without relying on direct authority. You are future-focused, practical, and outcome-oriented — able to assess emerging technologies such as AI, automation, cloud services, and data products, while ensuring solutions remain secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible IT experience, preferably including global or enterprise-level roles.
• 3–5+ years of experience in architecture leadership roles, such as Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Experience supporting Commercial and/or Medical business domains, with understanding of business capabilities, value streams, regulatory considerations, and global operating needs.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, APIs, event-driven architecture, and secure system interoperability.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into target-state architecture, roadmaps, and practical solution designs.
• Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and modeling techniques (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent).
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across business, IT, and global delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree, such as MS, MBA, or equivalent.
• Experience with modern Commercial & Medical platforms, such as CRM, omnichannel engagement, medical communication, customer data, and analytics platforms.
• Hands-on familiarity with major enterprise technologies, such as Salesforce, Veeva, cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure), and enterprise integration tools.
• Familiarity with Customer Data Platforms, master data, data products, or advanced analytics ecosystems.
• Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML, generative AI, automation, or cloud-based capabilities in a regulated, compliant environment.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including cross-functional global Agile teams; SAFe experience is a plus.

Impact of the Role

In this role, you will help ensure GCM technology decisions translate into measurable business value. Your work will enable faster launch readiness, improved scalability, reduced system redundancy, smoother integration of new capabilities or acquisitions, and a more simplified, future-ready technology landscape. You will play a key role in helping Biogen’s Commercial and Medical organizations move faster, reduce risk, and maximize long-term value from technology investments.

Diversity Statement

“Diversity is key for the survival of our ecosystem. I believe it is the single most important factor for a balanced flourishing environment where everyone thrives.” Guy Hadari – Chief Information Officer- Biogen

Additional Employment Conditions

This role is in hybrid job mode with eligibility for off-campus category. Please note that the role requires a candidate to be a holder of work permit & residency in Poland.

Job Level

Management

Additional Information

The base compensation range for this role is: zł348,000.00-zł487,500.00

• Competitive Total Rewards: Base salary is determined by your experience, skills, and internal equity, complemented by an annual bonus to recognize your performance and contributions.
• Comprehensive Benefits for You and Your Family: Includes life insurance, pension program contributions, mental health resources, remote work allowance, and flexible work arrangements.
• Learning, Growth & Recognition: Access professional development funding, training platforms, employee referral bonuses, opportunities to contribute to impactful projects at Biogen, and social activities.

As Biogen recently acquired Apellis, you can find additional open jobs on our Apellis website here.

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.