Principal Enterprise Architect AI & Agents

Job Summary

Job Overview

Published and broadly adopted AI and agent reference architectures

• Increased reuse of shared services patterns and templates
• Reduced duplication of AI implementations and development efforts
• Faster architecture reviews and approvals with fewer exceptions
• Improved compliance readiness for regulated and highrisk AI workloads

Key Responsibilities

Define maintain and evolve enterprise reference architectures standards and reusable patterns for generative AI and agentic systems.

• Govern solution designs including selection of appropriate technical components ensuring delivery teams can adopt standards with minimal friction.
• Provide architectural oversight for major AI initiatives guiding tradeoffs across security compliance scalability cost and timetovalue.
• Translate business strategies and OKRs into capabilitybased roadmaps and targetstate architectures avoiding projectspecific point solutions.
• Drive enterprise interoperability across systems and data domains by defining integration patterns and data exchange approaches aligned with enterprise standards.
• Partner with compliance risk and information security teams to ensure architectures align with global regulatory and quality expectations (e.g. GxP GDPR HIPAA EU AI Act).
• Maintain enterprise capability models and architecture artifacts using EA tools (e.g. LeanIX Ardoq MEGA) mapping capabilities to processes systems products outcomes and key data domains.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate platforms and services across business units quantifying investment implications and business benefits.
• Guide senior stakeholders through architectural options tradeoffs and investment decisions using clear businessfocused narratives and models.
• Monitor AI agentic and life sciences technology trends; assess relevance and fit; and inform enterprise roadmaps reference architectures and innovation priorities.
• Mentor and influence architects and senior engineers to raise overall architecture maturity and adherence to enterprise standards.

Required Qualifications

10 years of experience in enterprise or application architecture within large complex organizations including ownership of standards roadmaps and governance.

• Proven experience designing and scaling generative AI and agentic solutions with a strong focus on reusable patterns and operationalization.
• Deep technical knowledge of generative AI and agentic concepts including vector databases RAG tooluse MCP servers HITL evaluation frameworks monitoring observability and platforms such as LangGraph.
• Strong cloud architecture experience on Azure and/or AWS including modern data architectures (lakehouse governance cataloguing).
• Expertise in modern integration styles (APIfirst eventdriven microservices) and the ability to codify them into enterprise standards and reference architectures.
• Exceptional communication influence and stakeholder management skills including engagement with senior business product and technology leaders.
• Experience building business cases for modernization rationalization and platform consolidation initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in healthcare or life sciences with strong knowledge of the clinical trial lifecycle realworld evidence or commercialization of clinical assets.

• Handson partnership with CRO business teams including study design site activation and management clinical operations regulatory affairs medical affairs and KOL engagement realworld safety and efficacy pharmacovigilance and EMR ecosystems.
• Proficiency with enterprise architecture tools (LeanIX Ardoq MEGA or similar) and formal capability modeling methodologies.

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