Senior Solutions Architect

4DMT is a leading late-stage biotechnology company advancing durable and disease-targeted therapeutics with potential to transform treatment paradigms and provide unprecedented benefits to patients.

About the role

4DMT is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to serve as a hands-on, business-facing technology leader and trusted IT partner supporting our G&A functions, including Procurement, Legal, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, and Facilities. This role configures, optimizes, supports, and applies AI and automation to the G&A application portfolio, enabling compliant, scalable business processes that support 4DMT’s commercialization objectives. A successful candidate will be a hands-on G&A Solutions Architect who personally combines enterprise application and integration build skills, AI innovation, stakeholder engagement, and governance discipline to enable scalable growth and commercial readiness.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day IT point of contact and trusted advisor to G&A stakeholders. Translate business requirements into practical, scalable, well-documented solutions.
• Run hands-on process improvement initiatives and maximize value from existing platforms. Drive user adoption through training, communication, and change management in partnership with the Business Process Owner (BPO).
• Act as the functional and technical owner for applications used across the G&A ecosystem, with primary day-to-day responsibility for the Procurement, CLM, legal spend, and finance platforms in use; scope will shift as new G&A applications are implemented.
• Perform configuration, enhancements, UAT, security administration, and release/regression testing. Coordinate with outsourced remote MSP on a day-to-day basis – ticket triage, backlog prioritization, SLA tracking, and escalation.
• Support the underlying business processes end-to-end from IT, technology, and compliance standpoint, including contract lifecycle management, procurement, supplier data management, spend management, inventory management, and reporting.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate and pilot new business technologies supporting future growth.
• Identify and build opportunities to leverage AI, Copilot, and workflow automation. Implement automation solutions that measurably improve efficiency and user experience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to modernize manual processes in partnership with business users, collaboratively with other IT team members.
• Serve collaboratively as application SME and partner for the design, build, and maintenance of enterprise integrations on modern integration platforms.
• Execute IT SOX, ITGC, audit, security, and SDLC/change management requirements, including evidence preparation and walkthrough support. Ensure solutions meet compliance, scalability, and operational standards while balancing efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Systems or equivalent.
• 8–12 years of hands-on enterprise business systems experience.
• Demonstrated delivery of efficiency gains using AI technologies and tools.
• Strong administration and implementation experience across G&A platforms, including:
  • Procurement / P2P (Coupa)
  • Contract lifecycle management (Ironclad or equivalent)
  • Legal spend / matter management (Brightflag or equivalent)
  • ERP – NetSuite or comparable (financials and inventory)
• Expert knowledge of procurement, sourcing, supply chain, inventory, supplier onboarding, legal operations, and related controls.
• Experience with SaaS integrations, APIs, middleware, and workflow automation platforms (such as Workato) – preferred, not required.
• MSP partnership and accountability for outsourced or offshore application support.
• Strong understanding of evidential SOX, ITGC, audit controls, and governance requirements.
• Experience supporting cross-functional business application integrations.
• Strong reporting, analytics, and process design capabilities.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure framework, including Power Platform.
• Excellent stakeholder management, workload management, and service delivery skills.
• Proven capability to work independently with full task ownership and minimal supervision.
• Consultative, results-oriented, customer-focused mindset.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong execution, follow-through, and prioritization skills across concurrent initiatives.
• High ownership, accountability, and attention to detail and documentation.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced semi-structured environment.
• Curiosity and passion for AI, automation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

• Professional Certifications in Enterprise Platforms (Coupa, Ironclad, etc.) – preferred, not mandatory.
• ITIL, TOGAF, or similar technology governance / architecture certification preferred.
• Hands-on business systems SME with Coupa and CLM expertise, plus working NetSuite and boundary-application knowledge.
• Experience supporting G&A processes in a commercial biopharma environment.
• Proven success delivering AI-enabled process improvements.
• Comfortable working directly with auditors, offshore/remote support teams, and business process owners.
• Able to balance assigned strategic projects, day-to-day support, and compliance responsibilities without losing hands-on depth and details.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in typical office or administrative work).

Pay

Base salary compensation range: $167,000 - $183,000