VP – Chief Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Define and lead a multi-year enterprise architecture strategy aligned to business growth, AI scale, operational excellence, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish a clear target-state architecture and phased transformation roadmap across global business units.
• Ensure technology investments reduce complexity, enable reuse, and accelerate innovation velocity.
• Design the enterprise AI and data platform architecture to enable AI-at-scale across R&D, manufacturing, and commercial functions.
• Establish standards for responsible AI, model governance, data interoperability, and secure AI deployment in regulated environments.
• Accelerate AI solution deployment through reusable patterns, reference architectures, and scalable digital platforms.
• Advise senior business and technology leaders, translating complex enterprise challenges into actionable architecture roadmaps tied to measurable outcomes.
• Align architecture priorities to business KPIs such as time-to-market, productivity gains, cost optimization, and risk reduction.
• Serve as enterprise design authority for major transformation programs and strategic investments.
• Design pragmatic, agile architecture governance that balances innovation with security, compliance, and enterprise risk management.
• Lead enterprise standards across cloud, data, integration, security, and AI domains.
• Guide architecture strategy during M&A, integration, and organizational redesign efforts.
• Build, inspire, and scale a high-performing global architecture community across enterprise, domain, data, AI, and platform disciplines.
• Champion architecture as a strategic capability — shifting from review-and-approve to enable-and-accelerate.
• Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and disciplined execution.
• Cultivate strong partnerships across global business functions, external innovators, and strategic technology partners.
• Represent enterprise architecture in executive forums and strategic planning discussions.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MS, MBA, or equivalent) and relevant certifications (TOGAF, advanced cloud or AI architecture credentials) would be preferred.
• Significant enterprise architecture leadership experience, including service as Chief Architect or Enterprise Architecture VP within complex, global organizations.
• Experience in global, highly regulated environments such as bio-pharma, healthcare, or life sciences would be ideal.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise-wide digital and AI transformation strategies delivering measurable business impact.
• Experience architecting scalable AI, cloud, data, and platform ecosystems in regulated industries.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and simplify complex technical strategies into business-aligned action.
• Strong execution discipline — balancing strategic vision with practical delivery.
• Demonstrated success reducing enterprise complexity, rationalizing legacy estates, and accelerating platform adoption.
• Thought leadership through industry forums, publishing, or standards bodies.
• Experience integrating architecture strategies post-M&A and during large-scale operating model transformation.
• Proven ability to mentor senior architects and build federated global architecture communities.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development
• Remote work options