Senior Solutions Architect – Digital, Life Sciences

Role Overview

• Serve as both a strategic technology leader and hands-on technical expert
• driving architectural vision while actively participating in key technical decisions and implementations.
• Transform complex client needs into digital strategies, establish architectural standards, and lead the development team in delivering high-quality digital products for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for Digital Experience projects, ensuring solutions align with business needs, client requirements, and established technical standards.
• Design and lead the implementation of complex digital solutions including websites, web applications, interactive tools, data visualizations, and immersive experiences for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients.
• Establish and maintain architectural principles, patterns, reference architectures, and technical standards that guide the development team and ensure consistency across the digital product portfolio.
• Define and operationalize the team's AI-augmented development stack
• selecting, configuring, and governing tools such as code-generation assistants (Copilot, Claude Code), automated testing agents, and AI-powered code review pipelines.
• Establish usage policies, prompt engineering standards, and quality gates that ensure AI-assisted output meets architectural and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical lead on complex client engagements, participating in discovery sessions, solution design, and technical presentations.
• Lead and mentor senior developers and the broader development team, fostering technical excellence, code quality standards, and professional growth.
• Conduct technical reviews and provide architectural oversight for critical projects, ensuring quality and alignment with established patterns.
• Evaluate and recommend technology solutions, including AI tools, platforms, and frameworks, providing informed build vs. buy recommendations.
• Develop proof-of-concepts and technical prototypes for critical initiatives, validating approaches before committing to full implementation.
• Own technical estimation and scoping for complex projects, developing frameworks that improve accuracy and support project planning and pricing.
• Design integration strategies for CMS platforms, APIs, third-party services, and data sources, ensuring robust and maintainable architectures.
• Collaborate with UX leadership to refine and optimize the collaborating dev/UX team delivery model, ensuring technical and design workflows are aligned.
• Contribute to productization efforts by defining technical architectures, platform decisions, and component strategies that support scalable, repeatable product delivery.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural artifacts, and knowledge-sharing resources that build institutional technical knowledge.
• Support AI-assisted development practices across the team, evaluating tools and establishing best practices for AI integration in development workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software development and architecture, with demonstrated progression from hands-on development to technical leadership.
• 3+ years in technical leadership or architecture roles, with experience guiding teams and shaping technical direction.
• Strong background in designing and implementing complex technical solutions for web applications, interactive digital experiences, and/or immersive platforms.
• Deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in multiple technology stacks and development frameworks, with the ability to select the right tools for each engagement.
• Experience with modern development practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency in API design and integration patterns (REST, GraphQL), CMS platforms, and frontend/backend architectures.
• Demonstrated success in client-facing technical roles
• discovery leadership, solution design, and technical presentations.
• Experience in design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, conversational interfaces, and intelligent content systems for pharma/healthcare use cases.
• Own decisions around model selection, orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, custom), vector stores, guardrails, and responsible AI considerations specific to regulated industries.
• Experience supporting internal AI tooling that accelerates delivery
• automated content tagging, intelligent QA workflows, document processing pipelines, or knowledge retrieval systems (Azure Foundry experience is a bonus)
• Experience in proof-of-concept development for AI initiatives, including rapid prototyping with LLM APIs, fine-tuning evaluation, and cost/performance benchmarking to validate feasibility before committing to production builds.
• Strong project planning and estimation capabilities, with the ability to scope complex technical work accurately.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for business, executive, and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with architectural documentation tools and methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred but not required.
• Technical certifications in relevant areas are valuable but not mandatory.
• Pharma, healthcare, life sciences, or regulated industry experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in agency, consultancy, or professional services environments strongly preferred.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• GraphQL

Benefits

• Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.