Principal Enterprise Architect

The Principal Enterprise Architect is accountable for co-designing target-state enterprise architectures and reference models with business, technology, and product leaders, and for prescribing standards, patterns, and guardrails that ensure consistency and scalability across IQVIA. The role provides a portfolio-wide view of business and technical capabilities, surfacing cross-cutting needs and opportunities to consolidate platforms and services in both application and data domains.

What You Will Do

Co-design and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures in partnership with business, technology, and product leaders, with explicit focus on clinical operations and clinical trial management to ensure that architecture patterns reflect the realities of study execution, site management, regulatory compliance, and patient safety.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Preference will be given to candidates with hands-on experience in clinical trial management, site operations, patient cohort management, or related clinical domains, combined with ability to use enterprise architecture tools and capability models as the stable backbone for processes, products, data, and automation across business units.

Requirements

• 15+ years in software development with 10–12+ years in enterprise architecture in large, complex organizations
• Demonstrated experience owning enterprise-wide technology strategies and roadmaps, including business architecture, value streams, capability maps, and customer journeys
• Recent, relevant enterprise experience with applied data science, AI/ML, and agentic AI solutions
• Strong enterprise data architecture background, including implementation of data lakehouse architectures on platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake using medallion layering
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with clinical operations and clinical trial management, including study design, regulatory pathways, site activation and management, patient recruitment and cohort identification, workflows, protocol adherence monitoring, safety and pharmacovigilance reporting, and trial closeout and data archival

Benefits

• health and welfare benefits
• other benefits