Sr Architect

Description

Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering-for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health
. We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression supportive and engaged line management technical and therapeutic area training peer recognition and total rewards program.
. We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

The Senior Architect is responsible for leading the design and implementation of advanced architectural solutions within the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise and the ability to influence the technical direction of projects. The Sr. Architect works closely with various teams to ensure that solutions are aligned with business goals and meet high standards of quality and performance.

Past experiences should include working in a global organization in either IT engineering or operations of varying size and complexity. Must have broad knowledge of current IT or cybersecurity technologies to be able to work closely with core Syneos engineering and operations teams for the development of new solutions.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

. Lead the design and development of complex architectural solutions.

. Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.

. Create technical designs and specifications from business requirements.

. Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance the architecture.

. Decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.

. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions.

. Enforce quality and compliance standards to adhere to Syneos relevant policies.

. Track milestones of dependencies by the various internal delivery teams required for the final solution.

. Reporting and identify of potential risks of the solution development to management.

. Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards.

. Mentor junior architects and engineers.

. Continuously improve architecture processes and methodologies.

. Ability to react quickly, decisively, and deliberately in high-stress, high-impact situations

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field master's degree preferred.

. At least 7+ years of experience in IT infrastructure design, implementation, and support.

. Worked in IT engineering or operations support organization to develop & deliver high quality solutions to customers.

. Extensive experience in technical project management in operationalization of IT infrastructure solutions (workstation services networks, data centers/cloud, security services) to move to production.

. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to innovate in solution design.

. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

. Project Management (PMP) or Agile Certification (Scrum Master) would be a plus

. Ability to work independently and drive technical initiatives

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.