Fellow Architect - QCS & AI

Role Summary

Fellow Architect - QCS & AI. Provide strategic leadership and ownership in developing AI architectural strategy while advancing Quality teams, contributing to Quality Architecture and leading the development of a comprehensive AI Architecture for CBT.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver robust solution architectures aligned with Enterprise Architecture guidelines.
• Communicate complex technical decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Champion reusable, composable, and scalable components while ensuring security and data governance.
• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to align technical implementations with architectural standards, enhancing speed to value.
• Design data platforms and products that meet business needs and adapt to evolving models.
• Monitor industry trends in data architecture and AI to proactively address future requirements.
• Provide guidance on architectural matters, focusing on detailed solution architectures and integration strategies.
• Facilitate alignment between business objectives and IT initiatives across product teams.
• Partner with technology and product owners to refine technical backlogs based on business value and resource feasibility.
• Implement cost optimization strategies and monitor resource utilization in product deployment.
• Advocate for modern technologies and establish best practices for secure, efficient implementations.
• Ensure security by integrating threat modeling into architecture to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with all frameworks.
• Develop a data governance framework to define data ownership, access control, and quality standards.
• Promote data analytics for improved decision-making and establish integration standards across business plans.
• Coach and mentor architects and product teams to cultivate architectural thinking and skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in support of Quality as an Architect and/or Tech Lead.
• Experience with contemporary Artificial Intelligence designs and AI concepts.
• Understanding of Life Sciences industry, Quality & Labs and/or relevant domains.
• Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies and processing environments.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Experience developing and applying minimal viable architectures with standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails.
• Experience collaborating with delivery teams to ensure consistency with architecture standards and patterns, and to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes.
• Product expertise of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Ability to think and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive digital business strategies.
• Experience estimating the financial impact of architecture alternatives and applying multiple solutions to business problems.

Skills

• Architectural Design
• Architecture Strategy
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Infrastructure Design
• Technical Leadership

Education

• Bachelor's degree required.

Additional Requirements

• Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.