Principal Architect

IQVIA is seeking a highly skilled Principal Architect to join our Global Technology and Operations (GTO) group. As a key member of our Enterprise Architecture team, you will play a critical role in shaping the technology strategy and architecture of our organization.

The successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with business stakeholders to understand their needs and develop technology solutions that meet their requirements. You will work closely with our engineering teams to design and implement high-level system architectures that support our business objectives.

• Lead the conceptualization, design, and implementation of high-level system architectures that support current and future IQVIA systems, products, and platforms.
• Partner with business unit product/system architects to co-design conceptual, contextual, and logical architectures that deliver business use cases.
• Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business, and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.
• Present to stakeholders how architectural options will meet their needs.
• Be the Architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering Leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.
• Partner with IQVIA Business Unit stakeholders to and work closely with engineering and product teams to promote our API-first development strategy.
• Provide a wide-angle lens to inter-related business and technical capabilities by surfacing patterns of similar use cases.
• Creating business cases to analyze, plan, and prioritize investments in business capabilities.
• Mapping business capabilities to underlying processes, systems, and technologies.
• Partner with business line managers providing comprehensive technical and system expertise to synergize IT strategic direction and architecture concepts.
• Collaborate with A&S EA peers, TA, and engineering community across IQVIA to intake and validate business use cases for shared services delivery.
• Maintain the EA application portfolio for IQVIA. Promote and align stakeholders to maintain business and technology inventory.
• Devises and presents complex business cases and program release plans to senior management with priority recommendations to maintain and evolve IQVIA's architecture roadmap.
• Share insights, recommendations, and learnings cross-functionally and act as a consultant to provide system and technical advice.
• Keeps abreast of new trends and technology changes and identifies opportunities for implementation in future systems.
• Mentors and coaches peer architects across the organization.
• Hands-on experience with API-first design concepts and implementation ideas, convergent thinking on problem-solving within system context with an eye for scaling and reuse in the enterprise context.
• Identifying competitors, industry leaders, peers, and evaluate their use of technology relative to the enterprise; make practical recommendations on continuous improvement.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development and enterprise architecture and at least years experience within enterprise architecture.
• Experience developing strategic technology plans and roadmaps, including business architecture, value streams, capability maps & customer journeys.
• Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to present and communicate business and technical concepts.
• Experience leading efforts to create technological solutions and architectures impacting critical areas of the business.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems.
• Demonstrated technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g., application, security, infrastructure).
• Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level.
• Experience in enterprise architecture or application architecture, application development, and/or systems management.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience of event-driven architectures, microservices-based, RESTful, and alternative styles and other modern architecture design techniques and best practices.
• Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns.
• Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms and architectures on Azure, AWS.
• Experience in Healthcare/Life Sciences preferred.

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://www.iqvia.com/.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all, including veterans and candidates with disabilities.

IQVIA's ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates IQVIA and its employees meet specific requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccination status.