Senior Veeva Technical Architect

Ztek Consulting; Titusville (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ztek Consulting in Titusville, NJ, is seeking a Senior Veeva Technical Architect to lead architecture decisions for Veeva Vault across QualityDocs, eTMF, PromoMats, and MedComms in regulated Life Sciences settings.

You will collaborate with QA, validation, and cross-functional teams to design scalable, compliant solutions, manage migrations, and drive modernization with CI/CD and DevOps practices. Onsite responsibilities require strong communication with executives and vendors.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in Veeva Vault architecture and enterprise-scale delivery.
• Experience guiding platform decisions across Quality, Clinical, Regulatory, and Commercial domains.
• Strong understanding of content lifecycle management, document governance, and compliance.

Skills

Veeva Vault architecture

Enterprise content management

Architectural leadership

Regulated Life Sciences knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Integration planning and governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Life Sciences

Tools

Veeva Vault certifications

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Job Title: Senior Veeva Technical Architect

Location: Titusville, NJ (Onsite)

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Deep hands-on experience in Veeva Vault architecture, solution design, and enterprise-scale delivery, with the ability to guide scalable platform decisions across regulated Life Sciences environments.
• Strong architecture expertise across Veeva QualityDocs, Veeva eTMF, Veeva PromoMats, and Veeva MedComms, with the ability to provide cross-platform architectural leadership across ECM and Commercial content domains.
• Strong understanding of enterprise content management and commercial content ecosystems, including content lifecycle management, document governance, promotional review, medical communications, regulated content operations, and global template governance.
• Proven ability to translate business, regulatory, compliance, and operating-model needs across Quality, Clinical, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Commercial functions into practical, sustainable, and scalable architecture decisions.
• Strong understanding of Veeva Vault configuration and platform capabilities, including object model, document lifecycle, workflows, security model, sharing rules, metadata strategy, integrations, reporting, and platform limitations.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture, integration architecture, platform roadmap, governance standards, design guardrails, validation oversight, and long-term modernization strategy for complex regulated platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Veeva Vault programs, including new implementations, global rollouts, migrations, platform consolidation, mergers, upgrades, and major transformation initiatives.
• Experience planning and governing Vault data and content migrations, including legacy content assessment, metadata mapping, migration strategy, reconciliation, validation evidence, business cutover, and hyper care planning.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, middleware, identity and access management, data governance, security, master data, and enterprise data platforms in regulated Life Sciences environments.
• Working knowledge of GxP, data integrity, regulated change management, release governance, audit readiness, and risk-based validation expectations for enterprise platforms.
• Ability to partner with QA and validation teams to define CSV/CSA strategy, validation deliverables, test strategy, traceability, release controls, and audit-ready evidence for regulated Veeva implementations.
• Experience shaping multi-year platform roadmaps, prioritizing technical debt reduction, governing architecture decisions, and aligning business, technology, compliance, security, data, and vendor stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead distributed cross-functional teams, including architects, product owners, business analysts, configuration teams, integration teams, QA/validation teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Strong consulting, executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain architectural trade-offs, risks, options, and recommendations to senior busin ess and technology leaders.
• Practical understanding of responsible automation and AI-enabled capabilities in regulated content and quality processes, including governance, risk controls, human oversight, and compliance impact assessment.
• Experience with Agile product models, release planning, DevOps practices, CI/CD concepts, automated deployment approaches, and environment management for enterprise platform delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience may also be considered.
• Veeva Vault QualityDocs, eTMF, PromoMats, MedComms, or Platform certifications are preferred; equivalent hands‑on architecture leadership experience will also be considered.
• Own the target architecture, platform strategy, and roadmap for QualityDocs, eTMF, PromoMats, and MedComms across ECM and Commercial.
• Lead solution design and governance for transformations, migrations, integrations, upgrades, and major enhancements.
• Define reusable architecture principles, standards, decision frameworks, and guardrails for scalability, security, interoperability, and supportability.
• Design integrations connecting Veeva Vault with CRM, content, regulatory, identity, data, and other enterprise platforms.
• Guide capability prioritization, technical debt reduction, release planning, and investment decisions.
• Oversee GxP compliance, audit readiness, and risk-based CSV/CSA validation.
• Lead architecture workshops and reviews; communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to business and technology executives.
• Align Quality, Clinical, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Security, Data, QA, and delivery teams around cohesive solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to architects, product teams, specialists, and implementation partners while resolving cross-platform risks and dependencies.