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Principal Enterprise Architect - Commercial
Job in
Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 19087, USA
Listed on 2026-06-02
Listing for:
IQVIA, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-02
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Security, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 IQVIA's 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 cross-functional stakeholders to understand business objectives, define outcome-driven technology strategies, envision enterprise-wide, future-proof architectures, and design end-to-end 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, large-scale solution delivery, and management consulting.
The Principal Enterprise Architect is accountable for co-designing target-state 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 portfolio-wide view of business and technical capabilities to identify cross-cutting needs and platform consolidation opportunities across application and data domains.
This position requires a strong enterprise data and AI architecture orientation
, including recent, hands-on 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 multi-year roadmap for the Commercial business.
- Lead the evolution of IQVIA's Commercial organization into an AI-native business
, leveraging internal and external AI and agentic AI opportunities. - Develop transformation business cases to plan, implement, and rationalize current-state 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 decision-making across IT and business stakeholders.
- Model current-state and future-state 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 data-driven decision-making.
- 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.
- 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.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Commercial executives, translating complex technology concepts into clear, business-focused 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 long-term sustainability.
Industry Experience
- 15+ years of experience in software development, including 10-12+ 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,…
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