Technical Architect (Life Sciences
Listed on 2026-08-14
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IT/Tech
IT Project Manager, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Technical Lead
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Technical Lead to lead the ongoing enhancement, production support, and platform evolution of a Medical Contact Center. The client is modernizing its Medical Contact Center from Salesforce Service Cloud to Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud with a separate implementation vendor. After Release 1 go-live, TCS will take over future releases, L2/L3 support, platform governance, technical leadership, and continuous improvement for this platform.
The ideal candidate will combine strong Salesforce platform expertise, hands-on Life Sciences Cloud or Healthcare Cloud experience, support leadership, release management discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in a regulated pharmaceutical environment. This position requires onsite work in Indianapolis, IN on a weekly basis (in-office Tuesday-Thursday).
- Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders, business users, product owners, implementation vendor, and delivery teams
- Establish technical governance, solution design standards, coding best practices, and platform operating procedures
- Review and approve solution designs, technical specifications, configuration changes, and development approaches.
- Drive platform scalability, performance optimization, maintainability, security, and compliance alignment.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Salesforce developers, administrators, support engineers, and QA teams.
- L2 / L3 Production Support Leadership
- Lead end-to-end application support operations for Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud.
- Manage incident, problem, service request, defect, and change resolution processes.
- Own root cause analysis for critical and recurring production issues and drive preventive actions.
- Coordinate major incident response, defect triage, impact assessment, and risk mitigation.
- Release & Enhancement Management
- Own delivery of post Release 1 enhancements, future releases, and Salesforce platform upgrades.
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to convert requirements into scalable, compliant technical solutions.
- Lead sprint planning, release planning, deployment readiness, production cutover, and hypercare support.
- Coordinate across onsite and offshore teams for development, testing, defect remediation, and deployment.
- Establish Dev Ops, version control, CI/CD, environment management, and deployment governance practices
- Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Solution Leadership
- Lead support and enhancement of Medical Contact Center capabilities, including:
- Medical inquiry and case management
- Omnichannel contact center operations
- HCP, patient, and caregiver interactions
- Knowledge management and medical response content workflows
- Adverse event and product quality complaint integration touchpoints
- Medical information request processing and fulfillment
- Role-based access, security, and audit readiness
- Lead support and enhancement of Medical Contact Center capabilities, including:
- Integration & Enterprise Architecture Oversight
- Oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems such as Veeva, MDM, medical information systems, contact center tools, middleware, data lake, data warehouse, and ERP platforms.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex integration, data synchronization, API, and batch processing issues.
- Ensure data integrity, security, privacy, and compliance across connected systems.
- Partner with enterprise architecture, integration, data, and infrastructure teams for cross-platform issue resolution.
- Stakeholder, Vendor & Transition Management
- Lead knowledge transition from the Release 1 implementation vendor.
- Own transition planning, reverse KT, documentation review, support readiness, and operational acceptance.
- Partner with Medical Affairs, IT, contact center operations, compliance, QA, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate governance meetings, service reviews, release updates, and executive-ready status reporting.
- Provide recommendations for platform roadmap, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Compliance & Quality Expectations
- Operate within a regulated pharmaceutical environment with strong adherence to change management, validation, privacy, and security controls.
- Support audit readiness, documentation, traceability, and evidence collection for application changes and production support actions.
- Ensure alignment with applicable GxP, HIPAA, FDA, data privacy, and internal quality management expectations.
- Promote defect prevention, release quality, automated regression practices, and support knowledge documentation.
- Experience
- 10+ years of IT experience with 6+ years of Salesforce platform experience.
- 2+ years of experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, Healthcare Cloud, or pharma-focused Salesforce solutions.
- Proven experience leading Salesforce production support, enhancement, and release management engagements.
- Experience supporting customer service, medical information, medical affairs, or contact center…
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