Director, AI Enterprise Architecture

About the role

The company is an established biopharmaceutical firm expanding its IT function as the business grows. It is establishing a new Director, Enterprise Architecture position under the CIO, aiming to establish an independent, enterprise-wide architecture voice across all IT operations. This role is crucial as the company evaluates its core ERP/HRIS and CRM systems and defines how AI and agency capabilities will be integrated into its technology roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, and governance across applications, data, integration, and infrastructure, building reusable patterns and reference architecture so knowledge remains within the organization.
• Act as the connective architecture authority across the IT function, ensuring platform and integration choices do not create fragmentation or duplicate technology.
• Establish and lead a disciplined technology investment and architecture review process for major platform and vendor decisions.
• Translate the company's AI and data strategy priorities into concrete architecture requirements, including data model implications and the platform capabilities needed to support AI and agency workflows.
• Partner with the emerging enterprise AI strategy effort to ensure architecture decisions align with business investments in AI.
• Score and evaluate platform and vendor options based on AI-readiness criteria, providing input to major platform decisions, including ERP/HRIS and CRM evaluations.
• Define integration architecture and standards across ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data platforms, collaborating with the data strategy team on the underlying data architecture and governance model.
• Partner closely with IT leadership across the business and integrate architecture decisions into governance forums to provide the CIO with an independent architecture perspective.
• Work with the CIO to define the case, scope, and hiring plan for growing an architecture team as implementation work scales, mentoring solution architects in the meantime.
• Lead the ERP/HRIS assessment and CRM successor evaluation, ensuring both are architected as a cohesive backbone rather than chosen independently.
• Define integration architecture and standards across ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data platforms, partnering with the data strategy team on the underlying data architecture and governance model.
• Partner closely with IT leadership across the business and integrate architecture decisions into governance forums to provide the CIO with an independent architecture perspective.
• Work with the CIO to define the case, scope, and hiring plan for growing an architecture team as implementation work scales, mentoring solution architects in the meantime.
• Own and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, and governance across applications, data, integration, and infrastructure, building reusable patterns and reference architecture so knowledge remains within the organization.
• Act as the connective architecture authority across the IT function, ensuring platform and integration choices do not create fragmentation or duplicate technology.
• Establish and lead a disciplined technology investment and architecture review process for major platform and vendor decisions.
• Translate the company's AI and data strategy priorities into concrete architecture requirements, including data model implications and the platform capabilities needed to support AI and agency workflows.
• Partner with the emerging enterprise AI strategy effort to ensure architecture decisions align with business investments in AI.
• Score and evaluate platform and vendor options based on AI-readiness criteria, providing input to major platform decisions, including ERP/HRIS and CRM evaluations.
• Define integration architecture and standards across ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data platforms, collaborating with the data strategy team on the underlying data architecture and governance model.
• Partner closely with IT leadership across the business and integrate architecture decisions into governance forums to provide the CIO with an independent architecture perspective.
• Work with the CIO to define the case, scope, and hiring plan for growing an architecture team as implementation work scales, mentoring solution architects in the meantime.
• Lead the ERP/HRIS assessment and CRM successor evaluation, ensuring both are architected as a cohesive backbone rather than chosen independently.
• Define integration architecture and standards across ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data platforms, partnering with the data strategy team on the underlying data architecture and governance model.
• Partner closely with IT leadership across the business and integrate architecture decisions into governance forums to provide the CIO with an independent architecture perspective.
• Work with the CIO to define the case, scope, and hiring plan for growing an architecture team as implementation work scales, mentoring solution architects in the meantime.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, with 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles, or equivalent experience.
• Direct experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry, including familiarity with SOX ITGC, GxP, and data privacy frameworks such as GDPR and HIPAA, required.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-year technology roadmaps connecting business strategy to technology decisions.
• Hands-on experience architecting or evaluating enterprise-scale ERP, CRM, and/or HRIS platforms, with Tier 1 platforms such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable strongly preferred.
• Substantive, current experience with AI and agentic system architecture, including evaluating platforms for native agentic capability, API and integration depth, and data model implications for AI use cases.
• Strong data and integration architecture background, including master data management, enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake or comparable, and integration patterns across a fragmented, multi-system landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and cross-functionally at the executive level, advising CIO and leadership-level stakeholders on architecture trade-offs, vendor governance, and investment prioritization.
• Track record of building architecture standards, governance, and documentation from a low-maturity or fragmented starting point.
• Experience architecting for or alongside a managed services or hybrid resourcing model, where core architecture is owned internally while specialized execution is outsourced.
• Prior experience building and leading an architecture team, or clearly demonstrated readiness to do so.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to align enterprise architecture with business strategy and drive measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, with 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles, or equivalent experience.
• Direct experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry, including familiarity with SOX ITGC, GxP, and data privacy frameworks such as GDPR and HIPAA, required.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-year technology roadmaps connecting business strategy to technology decisions.
• Hands-on experience architecting or evaluating enterprise-scale ERP, CRM, and/or HRIS platforms, with Tier 1 platforms such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable strongly preferred.
• Substantive, current experience with AI and agentic system architecture, including evaluating platforms for native agentic capability, API and integration depth, and data model implications for AI use cases.
• Strong data and integration architecture background, including master data management, enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake or comparable, and integration patterns across a fragmented, multi-system landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and cross-functionally at the executive level, advising CIO and leadership-level stakeholders on architecture trade-offs, vendor governance, and investment prioritization.
• Track record of building architecture standards, governance, and documentation from a low-maturity or fragmented starting point.
• Experience architecting for or alongside a managed services or hybrid resourcing model, where core architecture is owned internally while specialized execution is outsourced.
• Prior experience building and leading an architecture team, or clearly demonstrated readiness to do so.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to align enterprise architecture with business strategy and drive measurable outcomes.

Skills

• Enterprise architecture expertise, including standards, principles, and governance.
• Enterprise architecture leadership, including connecting business strategy to technology decisions.
• Enterprise architecture evaluation, including scoring and evaluating platform and vendor options based on AI-readiness criteria.
• Data and integration architecture, including master data management, enterprise data platforms, and integration patterns.
• AI and agentic system architecture, including evaluating platforms for native agentic capability, API and integration depth, and data model implications for AI use cases.
• Executive-level stakeholder management and communication.
• Business strategy alignment and outcome-driven architecture.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with a generous employer match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Up to 12 weeks of living organ and bone marrow donor leave.
• Equity incentive plans.
• Health plans including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Flexible time off.
• Annual winter holiday shutdown.
• At least 11 paid holidays per year.

Pay

$210,000 - $240,000 + bonus

Schedule

Permanent position