A growth-focused life-sciences organization is seeking a senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant to help guide enterprise-wide architecture decisions across business capabilities, applications, data, cloud, AI, integrations, and technology platforms.
The role will assess complex current-state environments, develop practical target-state direction, create reusable architecture standards and artifacts, and support governance processes that align technology decisions with business value.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Develop business, application, data, and technology architecture artifacts.
- Assess current-state environments and identify technical debt, risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
- Create architecture strategies, POVs, target states, standards, and reference architectures.
- Evaluate architecture alternatives across cost, risk, impact, benefits, and tradeoffs.
- Support application portfolio, technology lifecycle, and data-governance initiatives.
- Present architecture recommendations through formal governance and review processes.
- Partner across Data, Analytics, AI, Integration, application, and solution teams.
- Translate technical strategy into clear business value.
Role Requirements- 15+ years of IT experience with at least 5+ years in Enterprise Architecture.
- Experience across Business, Application, Data, and Technology Architecture.
- Direct biopharma or life-sciences industry experience.
- Business capability, process, and maturity-modeling experience.
- Data strategy and architecture experience.
- Broad cloud, data, AI/ML, integration, and enterprise-platform knowledge.
- Experience with current-state assessment, target-state architecture, and reference architecture.
- Architecture governance experience.
- Familiarity with regulated life-sciences environments.
- Strong stakeholder communication and influence skills.
- Relevant bachelor s or master s degree.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE- TOGAF, Zachman, or comparable EA methodologies.
- ArchiMate, BPMN, or CSDM.
- Enterprise Architecture modeling or repository tools.
- Experience helping mature an EA practice or Architecture Review Board.