Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture, Global Commercial & Medical IT
About The Position
Biogen is seeking an accomplished Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture to define and govern the technology architecture supporting its Global Commercial & Medical (GCM) organization. This senior individual-contributor role ensures technology solutions align with business strategy, regulatory expectations, and compliance requirements while delivering secure, scalable, business-value-driven outcomes. As the lead architect for the Commercial and Medical domains, this role owns the target-state architecture, business capability roadmap, and integration strategy across a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications. The architect identifies capability gaps, reduces duplication and fragmentation, and guides decisions that improve speed to market, reduce risk, and strengthen long-term scalability. Working with business and IT leaders, the role translates priorities such as product launches, international expansion, acquisitions, omnichannel engagement, and medical communications into actionable technology roadmaps. The role helps simplify the GCM technology landscape, enable innovation, and ensure Commercial and Medical platforms are future-ready. It also provides architecture leadership for strategic initiatives, develops multi-year roadmaps, guides architecture practices across delivery teams, and represents GCM in enterprise architecture forums. The position is a senior individual-contributor role listed at management job level.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible IT experience, preferably including global or enterprise-level roles.
- 5+ years of experience in architecture leadership roles, such as Enterprise Architect or equivalent.
- Enterprise Architecture experience in pharmaceutical or biotech companies, with direct architecture ownership of Commercial and/or Medical business platforms for CRM, omnichannel engagement, field operations, patient services, and promotional and medical content (e.g., Veeva, Salesforce, PromoMats, MedComms).
- Strong understanding of Commercial and Medical business capabilities, value streams, regulatory considerations such as promotional review and HCP engagement compliance, and global operating needs.
- Solid knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven architecture, with working knowledge of data architecture sufficient to design how business applications connect.
- Proven ability to translate business priorities into target-state architecture, roadmaps, and practical solution designs.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across business, IT, and global delivery teams.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree, such as an MS, MBA, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and modeling techniques, such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms, customer/master data, and enterprise integration tools as they support Commercial applications.
- Experience assessing and integrating AI/ML, generative AI, automation, or cloud-based capabilities in a regulated, compliant environment.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including cross-functional global Agile teams; SAFe experience is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Define and govern GCM enterprise architecture standards across Commercial and Medical IT, aligning them with enterprise architecture principles, security, compliance, and business strategy.
- Serve as the primary architecture leader for strategic GCM initiatives, shaping early solution designs and guiding architectural decisions to align with the target-state architecture.
- Define the GCM application integration strategy and partner with Data & Analytics architecture teams to establish secure, scalable integration patterns.
- Develop multi-year enterprise architecture and business capability roadmaps for the evolution of Commercial and Medical platforms in line with business priorities, value streams, and capability needs.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and rationalize the application portfolio by reducing overlapping systems, improving integration quality, lowering total cost of ownership, and avoiding unnecessary fragmentation.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including cloud services, automation, AI/ML, and generative AI, for GCM business needs and integrate high-value capabilities with appropriate security and compliance controls.
- Partner with enterprise integration, data and analytics, security, infrastructure, delivery, and platform teams to ensure architecture decisions are practical, scalable, and executable.
- Mentor and guide solution architects, platform architects, technical leads, and delivery teams to drive consistency and architecture best practices.
- Represent GCM in enterprise architecture forums and ensure Commercial and Medical priorities are considered in cross-functional technology decisions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Fitness and wellness programs, including a fitness reimbursement.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and end-of-year shutdown time off from December 26 through December 31.
- Up to 12 company-paid holidays and 3 paid days off for Personal Significance.
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year.
- Paid maternity and parental leave.
- 401(k) program with company-matched contributions.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year.
- Employee Resource Groups participation.
- Eligible for short-term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
