Director of Solution Architecture & Design Assurance

GlaxoSmithKline plc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline plc seeks a senior Solution Architect in the United States to ensure architecture standards and end-to-end coherence across major initiatives. The role focuses on reliability, observability, and security while guiding design assurance and AI-enabled solutions that accelerate delivery.

You will collaborate with Platform and Enterprise Architects, shaping architecture strategy and governance in a hybrid work environment with on-site and remote collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in technology architecture or senior engineering, including at least three years producing solution designs for major initiatives.
• Experience in more than one technology domain, sufficient to design end-to-end solutions.
• Experience working with and influencing one or more business domain architects.
• Experience running architecture review or design assurance.
• Experience designing solutions for reliability, resilience, and observability.
• Experience designing secure and compliant technology solutions.
• Experience reviewing or assuring supplier designs against standards.
• Experience applying AI patterns within solution architecture.
• Experience designing solutions across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS using Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience with Modern Engineering workflows, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Produce solution designs for major initiatives, aligned to reference architectures and standards.
• Build reliability, resilience, and observability into designs from the outset.
• Design AI-enabled solutions where AI accelerates delivery or ops and justify the case.
• Provide design assurance and architecture review for initiatives led by others.
• Balance business outcomes, cost, risk, and technical fit in every design.
• Collaborate across platform domains to ensure end-to-end coherence.
• Assure architecture of supplier and managed-service solutions to standard.

Job description

GlaxoSmithKline plc seeks a senior Solution Architect in the United States to ensure architecture standards and end-to-end coherence across major initiatives. The role focuses on reliability, observability, and security while guiding design assurance and AI-enabled solutions that accelerate delivery.

You will collaborate with Platform and Enterprise Architects, shaping architecture strategy and governance in a hybrid work environment with on-site and remote collaboration.