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Lead Solutions Architect

Pharma Logistics · Libertyville, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

Partner with business leaders to understand objectives, operational challenges, and opportunities for improvement. Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions, architecture options, and implementation roadmaps. Define application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security architecture for strategic initiatives. Establish architecture standards, reusable development patterns, and engineering best practices. Lead solution design reviews and provide technical oversight across multiple projects. Balance speed, cost, scalability, maintainability, security, and business value in architecture decisions.

Application Development Leadership

Guide development teams through architecture, design, implementation, testing, and production readiness activities. Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical planning sessions. Build proof of concepts and reference implementations when needed to validate direction or reduce delivery risk. Help teams resolve complex technical challenges across applications, integrations, data flows, and platforms. Promote modern software engineering practices, automation, DevOps, observability, and secure development methods.

Business & Technology Alignment

Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership. Evaluate new project ideas and recommend practical approaches based on business value, complexity, risk, and delivery capacity. Develop technology roadmaps that align with organizational goals and operational priorities. Support project prioritization, estimation, sequencing, and technical planning. Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Innovation & AI-Enabled Value

Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, automation, analytics, and cloud services, with a practical business-value lens. Identify opportunities where AI can improve workflows, decision support, user productivity, data quality, or operational efficiency. Help establish pragmatic guardrails for AI usage, data access, security, and responsible implementation.

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