Chief Architect - Innovative Medicine Technology

Johnson & Johnson • Titusville, NJ

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Architect, Innovative Medicine Sector is the senior architecture leader responsible for defining and governing the technology architecture strategy across the Innovative Medicine sector, including R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Data, AI, Cloud, Integration, Security, and Enterprise platforms. This role establishes the sector-wide architectural vision, principles, reference designs, standards, and governance model that guide technology investments and ensure alignment with business strategy, digital transformation priorities, and enterprise technology direction. The Chief Architect partners closely with sector business leaders, product and platform teams, Technology Services, Information Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, and architects across other J&J sectors to promote common enterprise architecture principles, reusable platforms, and consistent technology decision-making. The role serves as the architecture steward for Innovative Medicine, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, compliant, resilient, AI-ready, and aligned to both sector-specific needs and broader enterprise technology standards. The role will lead a distributed team of 20+ architects and is accountable for advancing modern architecture ways of working, including the adoption of GenAI to accelerate blueprint creation, architectural analysis, pattern discovery, design documentation, standards compliance, and architecture decision support.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of technology leadership experience, including strong responsibility for enterprise, sector, or platform architecture.
• Experience leading global architecture teams across multiple domains, regions, or business functions.
• Expertise in cloud architecture, data platforms, AI/GenAI technologies, integration architecture, cybersecurity, digital platforms, and enterprise application landscapes.
• Critical thinking, systems thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and architecture governance capabilities.
• Executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology decisions into clear business implications.
• Experience leading architecture governance, cross-sector collaboration, technology standards adoption, and large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical or healthcare value chains, including R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Quality, Regulatory, Data, Digital, and customer-facing capabilities.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture strategies, target-state blueprints, reference architectures, standards, governance models, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Experience working with enterprise technology services, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, engineering, product, and architecture teams to deliver reusable enterprise platforms.
• Understanding of cloud platforms, data architecture, AI/ML platforms, systems integration, cybersecurity, digital channels, enterprise applications, and modern software engineering practices.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, product leaders, platform owners, architects, engineers, and external partners across complex organizations.
• Ability to balance enterprise standardization with sector-specific business needs, regulatory requirements, and differentiated innovation opportunities.
• Experience building architecture communities of practice, developing architecture talent, and driving adoption through influence.

Nice To Haves

• Experience applying GenAI or AI-assisted methods to architecture blueprinting, design documentation, standards governance, platform evaluation, or engineering productivity is preferred.
• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, consumer health, medtech, supply chain, commercial, or another regulated global environment is preferred.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and modern product-centric delivery models is preferred.
• Experience introducing modern architecture ways of working, including GenAI-enabled blueprinting, documentation, standards automation, knowledge management, and design review acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Innovative Medicine architecture strategy across R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Data, AI, Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Platforms.
• Develop future-state architecture blueprints and principles that enable business agility, interoperability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive technology modernization, platform simplification, and technical debt reduction across the sector.
• Align architecture investments with business priorities, enterprise strategy, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead and develop a global architecture organization of 20+ architects, fostering a high-performing and collaborative culture.
• Provide architecture leadership across R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial capabilities to enable an integrated end-to-end operating model.
• Establish common data, process, and platform patterns that improve interoperability, reuse, and user experience.
• Ensure architectures support global scale, lifecycle management, compliance, cybersecurity, and business continuity requirements.
• Establish and govern reference architectures, design patterns, technology standards, and security guardrails.
• Promote adoption of reusable enterprise capabilities and shared platforms to reduce complexity and duplication.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Ensure alignment across business strategies, product roadmaps, platform roadmaps, and enterprise technology priorities.
• Guide technology investment decisions, including build, buy, reuse, modernization, and platform consolidation strategies.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business leaders to prioritize strategic technology capabilities.
• Partner with Technology Services, Enterprise Architecture, ISRM, and sector architecture leaders to advance common enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reusable platforms.
• Represent Innovative Medicine architecture priorities in enterprise governance and cross-sector decision-making forums.
• Drive consistency in architecture practices, governance processes, and technology lifecycle management across the sector.
• Lead architecture governance forums and establish clear decision rights, review standards, and issue resolution mechanisms.
• Provide architecture oversight for pivotal initiatives, platform investments, technology partnerships, data products, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, business objectives, and target architectures.
• Define and monitor architecture benchmarks to measure adoption, reuse, simplification, technical health, and value realization.
• Advance the use of GenAI to improve architecture productivity, including blueprint creation, design analysis, standards compliance, knowledge management, and decision support.
• Establish governance and guardrails for responsible use of AI-assisted architecture practices.
• Develop reusable architecture knowledge assets, automation patterns, and AI-enabled ways of working that improve speed, quality, and consistency.
• Advise senior leaders on emerging technologies and their impact on the Innovative Medicine strategy.
• Promote engineering excellence, simplification, innovation, and architecture rigor across the technology organization.
• Represent Innovative Medicine architecture in enterprise forums, industry engagements, and strategic technology partnerships.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior