Principal Enterprise Architect Commercial
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Job Summary
Role Overview
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 IQVIAs 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 crossfunctional stakeholders to understand business objectives define outcomedriven technology strategies envision enterprisewide futureproof architectures and design endtoend 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 largescale solution delivery and management consulting.
The Principal Enterprise Architect is accountable for codesigning targetstate 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 portfoliowide view of business and technical capabilities to identify crosscutting needs and platform consolidation opportunities across application and data domains.
This position requires a strong enterprise data and AI architecture orientation including recent handson 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.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision and multiyear roadmap for the Commercial business.
- Lead the evolution of IQVIAs Commercial organization into an AInative business leveraging internal and external AI and agentic AI opportunities.
- Develop transformation business cases to plan implement and rationalize currentstate architectures.
- Drive alignment between business strategy digital capability needs and supporting technology architecture.
- Establish and govern enterprise architecture standards reference models and patterns across business information application and technology domains.
- Lead complex architecture initiatives and guide decisionmaking across IT and business stakeholders.
Business Architecture
- Model currentstate and futurestate business capabilities value streams processes and operating models for Pharma/Life Sciences Commercial functions.
- Translate Commercial strategies (e.g. product launches omnichannel marketing field effectiveness) into actionable capability and technology requirements.
- Identify optimization opportunities across commercial operations digital customer engagement and datadriven decisionmaking.
Information & Data Architecture
- Define enterprise data models master data structures and information flows supporting the Commercial ecosystem (e.g. HCP data Customer 360 patient data sales and marketing analytics).
- Partner with data governance and analytics teams to design scalable data platforms standards and interoperability frameworks.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and data privacy requirements including FDA HIPAA GxP and global data protection laws.
Technical Architecture & Solution Design
- Architect integrated technology ecosystems across CRM marketing automation content management patient engagement platforms data platforms and field tools.
- Provide architectural oversight for major Commercial technology programs including platform modernization cloud transformation and AI/ML adoption.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and guide innovation initiatives across the Commercial business.
Strategic Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Commercial executives translating complex technology concepts into clear businessfocused guidance.
- Collaborate with product engineering data and PMO teams to ensure architectural alignment throughout delivery.
- Facilitate architecture reviews and guide technical decisions to ensure scalability interoperability and longterm sustainability.
Required Experience & Qualifications
Industry Experience
- 15 years of experience in software development including 1012 years in enterprise or application architecture roles within large complex organizations.
- Deep experience in Healthcare and Life Sciences preferably across Commercial functions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of industry platforms and ecosystems such as Veeva Salesforce Adobe IQVIA platforms Snowflake and AWS/Azure/GCP.
Architecture Expertise
- Proven experience in Business Architecture including capability modeling process mapping and operating model design.
- Strong Information Architecture and data modeling experience in regulated environments.
- Advanced Technical Architecture expertise across cloud platforms integration technologies (API and microservices) and largescale enterprise systems.
- Deep understanding of modern architecture styles including eventdriven architectures microservices APIfirst design RESTful and alternative integration patterns and MCPbased standards.
- Recent enterprise experience with applied data science AI/ML and agentic AI focused on defining patterns and standards at scale.
- Expertise in enterprise architecture patterns and approaches such as DomainDriven Design enterprise platforms and microservices.
- Handson experience with GenAI AI agents and AInative software development practices and tools.
- Proficiency with enterprise architecture tools for capability modeling portfolio management application and data inventories and architecture governance.
Strategic & Consulting Skills
- Ability to translate business strategies and OKRs into capability and outcomebased architecture roadmaps.
- Background in management consulting or strategyfocused roles strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading technology strategy roadmap development and enterprise transformation programs.
- Exceptional communication facilitation and executivelevel stakeholder engagement skills.
Leadership & Delivery
- Proven ability to influence crossfunctional teams and drive alignment across business and IT stakeholders.
- Strong systemsthinking mindset.
- Experience governing architecture from concept through execution.
- Ability to manage up across and down the organization to drive alignment and deliver outcomes.
- Mentor and influence architects and senior engineers to elevate architecture maturity and adherence to enterprise standards.
- Strong ability to balance longterm architectural vision with practical delivery constraints.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems Business or a related field (Masters degree preferred).
- Certifications preferred: TOGAF SAFe AWS/Azure Architect CBA/BA certifications.
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
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. is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements misrepresentations or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application or termination of employment if discovered later in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.
The potential base pay range for this role when annualized is $118100.00 - $328800.00. 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.Required Experience:
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