The Principal Enterprise Architect (EA) within the AI and Technology Solutions (ATS) function is a strategic leadership role responsible for shaping the enterprise architecture vision and roadmap across IQVIA’s Commercial domain, including Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Patient Engagement.
This role combines deep life sciences industry expertise with mastery across business, information, data, and technical architecture to drive business transformation, innovation, and scalable digital capabilities.
The Principal EA partners closely with Commercial business leaders, technology executives, and cross‑functional stakeholders to understand business objectives, define outcome‑driven technology strategies, envision enterprise‑wide, future‑proof architectures, and design end‑to‑end solutions that ensure architectural coherence. The role supports the execution of global Commercial technology programs and requires strong experience in healthcare and life sciences, technology strategy, large‑scale solution delivery, and management consulting.
The Principal Enterprise Architect is accountable for co‑designing target‑state enterprise architectures and reference models with business, technology, and product leaders. The role prescribes standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure consistency and scalability across IQVIA and provides a portfolio‑wide view of business and technical capabilities to identify cross‑cutting needs and platform consolidation opportunities across application and data domains.
This position requires a strong enterprise data and AI architecture orientation, including recent, hands‑on experience with applied data science, AI/ML, agentic AI architectures, data lakehouse platforms, data governance automation, data catalogs, ontologies, and taxonomies. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in Commercial Pharma/Life Sciences and with enterprise architecture tools and capability models as the foundation for processes, products, data, and automation across business units.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe
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The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $118,100.00 - $328,800.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.