Director, IT Enterprise Architect

About the role

The Director, Enterprise Architecture will establish Madrigal’s enterprise architecture capability as a practical strategy-to-execution function that connects business strategy and outcomes to the technology landscape using business capability language. This role will build and maintain an enterprise view of current and future-state capabilities, map platforms/data/integrations to those capabilities, and translate that into clear roadmaps and investment guidance so IT decisions are anchored in business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Establish fit for purpose architecture governance (decision rights, review paths, exceptions) that enables speed while protecting security, compliance, and scalability.
• Orchestrate the creation, alignment, and rollout of IT-wide architecture standards and reference patterns with technical domain leads, ensuring consistent enterprise adoption.
• Drive a shared set of “minimum viable architecture” expectations for common solution types by aligning domain owners and ensuring consistent usage through checkpoints and exception handling.
• Ensure standards are operationalized through tooling, templates, and embedded engagement.
• Build and maintain Madrigal’s enterprise capability model and use it as the primary language for technology strategy, prioritization, and alignment.
• Map key platforms, data, and integrations to business capabilities to create clear line-of-sight from strategy to capability to technology decisions.
• Facilitate capability-based planning with business and IT leaders to identify gaps, redundancies, and investment priorities.
• Translate business strategy and operating needs into actionable architecture themes and roadmaps that guide delivery teams.
• Curate a living enterprise architecture repository documenting the as-is and to-be landscape across applications, data, integrations, and technology platforms.
• Drive modernization and rationalization recommendations that reduce fragmentation and technical debt while enabling business outcomes.
• Partner with Strategy & Operations, Infra/Ops, and Data/AI leaders to align roadmaps and sequencing across domains.
• Provide architecture input into portfolio decisions (start/stop/sequence) by clarifying constraints, dependencies, and long-term impacts.
• Engage directly with delivery teams to shape solution designs early, resolve tradeoffs, and prevent rework late in the lifecycle.
• Support high-priority initiatives as a working architect (workshops, design sessions, integration patterns, data flows).
• Steer teams toward shared platforms, standard patterns, and approved building blocks.
• Partner with PMs and program leaders to ensure architecture decisions, risks, and exceptions are visible, decisioned, and tracked.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to ITLT and business leaders by presenting clear options, implications, and tradeoffs in business language.
• Build alignment across functions by creating transparent, capability-led narratives for why technology decisions are being made.
• Drive decision velocity by proactively surfacing architectural risks, constraints, and needed choices before they become delivery blockers.
• Enable enterprise-wide architectural literacy through coaching, practical guidance, and consistent communication of standards and direction.
• Stand up and embed an enterprise architecture governance model, including decision routes, review triggers, and exception management, ensuring consistent execution across domains.
• Maintain a central registry of architecture exceptions and technical debt, including owners and remediation expectations.
• Inform major platform and technology decisions by surfacing duplication, architectural inconsistencies, and consolidation opportunities across the IT landscape.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise “ready for production” standards before go-live and escalate gaps early for decision and remediation.

Qualifications

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). Master’s degree (MBA, MS, or similar) preferred.
• Nice-to-have qualifications include:
• Microsoft certifications in Azure architecture and/or Power Platform solution architecture
• Recognized cybersecurity architecture credential (e.g., Microsoft SC-100, CISSP, or CCSP)
• Veeva certifications spanning both Commercial and R&D/Quality domains (Vault CRM, RIM, Trial Master, Quality)
• CSV/CSA credential demonstrating validation readiness in regulated environments.

Experience: 12+ years of relevant experience with 5+ years in biotech/pharma (regulated/GxP), building compliant-by-design architectures. Experience in high-growth environments; comfortable as a hands-on architect who drives outcomes, not just documents. Deep experience with Veeva platform(s) and integration into the broader enterprise ecosystem. Strong experience across Microsoft’s ecosystem (Azure, M365, Entra ID, Power Platform, and security tooling). Proven track record architecting AI-enabled solutions, including data foundations and scalable deployment patterns. Demonstrated ability to influence executives with clear options, tradeoffs, and decision-ready recommendations.

Pay

A good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position, applicable to all candidates, is $214,000 - $261,000 per year. We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.

Schedule

Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits, including flexible paid time off, medical, dental, vision and life/disability insurance, and 401(k) offerings (i.e., traditional, Roth, and employer match) in accordance with applicable plans. We also offer additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life insurance, legal services, and other offerings.