R&D Solutions Architect, Senior Manager

Accountabilities

• Define and advocate target architecture, architecture vision, and ways of working for R&D solutions spanning clinical development, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance.
• Support solution evaluation and selection, including buy vs. build considerations, vendor/product fit assessments, and early-phase sizing and estimation.
• Lead technical and solution design for assigned initiatives, from discovery through detailed design and delivery alignment.
• Produce high-quality architecture artifacts, such as target-state and solution architecture, integration, and data flow designs, and support approval through enterprise and peer design reviews.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture standards and principles, leveraging common platforms, shared services, and reusable patterns.
• Provide architecture guidance to delivery teams and support organizations to help resolve design risks, technical debt, and alignment to IT and R&D strategies.
• Develop solution architecture grounded in R&D constraints, including regulated environments, validation needs, privacy, interoperability, and ecosystem dependencies.
• Architect information delivery, advanced analytics, and BI capabilities that enable R&D insights and reporting for clinical, regulatory, and safety outcomes.
• Stay current on emerging trends in clinical research and development, regulatory technology, pharmacovigilance, data, and AI/ML, and translate them into practical, compliant architecture recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with applicable privacy, security, and data protection requirements, and promote auditability and traceability by design.

Education, Behavioural Competencies and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years in technology roles with progressive responsibility; experience in pharmaceutical/biotech or other regulated industries preferred.
• Track record of delivering technology and process change end-to-end, balancing speed, quality, and risk.
• Operates with high autonomy and sound judgment; able to lead through ambiguity and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and mentoring skills; able to raise the technical bar across teams.
• Detail-oriented and quality-focused, with a bias toward pragmatic solutions that are secure, compliant, and supportable.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and data governance in a healthcare/pharmaceutical context (clinical, regulatory, and/or safety).