Director, Application Architect

The Role

The Director, Application Architect is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, integration, and lifecycle of Rose Bio Solutions' core business applications. This person owns the architecture that connects SAP S/4

HANA Public Cloud, Salesforce CRM, Ironclad, UKG, and the company's QMS and LIMS platforms, ensuring that data, processes, and controls flow cleanly across systems in a validated, GxP-appropriate environment. The Application Architect works closely with the CIO and business stakeholders to anticipate the company's evolving needs, identify where AI capabilities can responsibly improve these systems, and manage the vendor relationships, licensing, and contracts that underpin the application portfolio.

This is an individual-contributor architecture role, not a people-management role, and requires someone who is equally comfortable in a whiteboard session with executives and inside a system configuration screen.

Rose Bio Solutions is currently separating from its former parent company, and this role will be heavily involved in that separation, including standing up new instances, migrating and disentangling data, closing out the parent company's Transition Service Agreement (TSA), and replacing shared-services systems with Rose Bio Solutions' own application stack. This is a rare opportunity to help design and build a company's application architecture from the ground up, free of legacy debt, and to set new standards for how the systems are integrated, governed, and modernized from day one.

• Own the end-to-end application architecture across SAP S/4
  
  HANA Public Cloud, Salesforce CRM, Ironclad, UKG, QMS, and LIMS, and maintain a current, accurate view of how these systems and their data connect to one another.
• Work hands-on within these platforms, deep enough to evaluate configuration and integration decisions directly rather than relying solely on vendors or system integrators.
• Partner with the CIO and business leaders across quality, manufacturing, commercial, legal, HR, and finance to understand operational needs and translate them into application and integration designs.
• Anticipate the architectural implications of new business requirements, regulatory changes, growth, and site additions before they become urgent problems.
• Understand the native AI capabilities built into SAP (such as Joule and SAP Business AI) and Salesforce (such as Einstein and Agentforce), and evaluate and recommend where these and other AI capabilities can be responsibly applied within the existing application stack, from workflow automation to document intelligence to decision support, with appropriate attention to GxP validation and data governance.
• Define and maintain integration patterns, data flows, and system-of-record decisions across the application landscape, using integration middleware and iPaaS tooling (such as Boomi, Mule Soft, or SAP PI/PO) in coordination with the SAP implementation partner and other systems integrators.
• Ensure application changes and integrations follow Computer System Validation (CSV) practices and comply with 21 CFR Part 11 requirements for electronic records and signatures.
• Own the ongoing revalidation strategy required by a public cloud SAP environment, where SAP pushes quarterly releases on a fixed schedule. Unlike private cloud or on-premise deployments, validation here is a recurring compliance obligation, not a one-time event, and must be planned, resourced, and executed release after release without disrupting GxP operations.
• Lead the technical closure of the company's Transition Service Agreement (TSA) with the former parent company, coordinating cutover timing and system readiness across all affected applications.
• Own vendor and licensing management for the application portfolio, including contract renewals, license optimization, and commercial negotiations, in partnership with procurement and legal.
• Establish architecture standards, documentation, and governance practices appropriate for a regulated CDMO environment.
• Serve as a technical advisor during the ongoing carve-out and system implementation effort, working alongside the SAP SI, QMS/LIMS implementation teams, and managed service providers.
• Play a lead role in separating Rose Bio Solutions' applications and data from the former parent company's environment, including system cutover planning, data migration, and decommissioning of shared-services dependencies.
• Take advantage of the greenfield opportunity to…