Director, Solution Architecture

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Solution Architecture to be located in Spring House, PA. The Director-level Architect for Drug Discovery will strategize and define the end-to-end architecture for a next-generation, AI-powered Design–Make–Test–Learn (DMTL) engine. This role combines deep technical leadership, hands-on architectural design, and people leadership, leading a team of solution architects while guiding delivery across Discovery, Data Science, and Engineering.

What You Will Do

Key Responsibilities: Architecture Strategy & Roadmap: Define and lead the architecture for this large initiative, encompassing DMTL workflows, data platforms, and automation ecosystems. AI & Data Platform Design: Architect closed-loop data generation systems that integrate molecular design models with laboratory automation and robotics outputs. Integration & Scalability: Design solutions with a strong focus on computational scalability and data interoperability, ensuring seamless integration across lab systems, automation layers, and enterprise platforms.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role matters because you will be instrumental in industrializing drug discovery, ensuring J&J moves beyond experimentation to a fully scaled, learning-driven discovery engine that is data driven and under continuous improvement.

Requirements

• A background in Computer Science or equivalent, with 7+ years of experience leading a commercial or IT domain in digital solutions, systems integration, or architecture.
• Proven experience in implementing automation architecture for large initiatives. (> USD 500Mio)
• Deep experience with integration patterns to connect multiple solution components and discovery systems.
• Ability to assess proposed solutions, articulate options, define architectural principles and recommend a path forward.
• Understanding how to translate business process needs into technology solutions; comfortable working at an abstract level and “shifting” to the highest-impact answer.
• Skilled at articulating trade-offs among business needs, technology requirements, timelines, costs, and risks, and be able to influence across multiple levels of a global organization.

Benefits

• The opportunity to lead high-impact initiatives in a world-class healthcare organization, improving experiences for patients, customers, and colleagues.
• A collaborative, supportive environment where your architecture leadership, coaching, and curiosity are valued.
• The ability to influence product direction and accelerate innovation on a global scale.