Principal Architecture

**Description**

Principal Architecture

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE**

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 our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** Technology Governance & Standards**:Drive robust architecture governance** across IT functions, projects and systems. Drive, facilitate and enforce **enterprise-wide standards, best practices, and principles** for technology solutions.
- Manage and chair the Architecture Review Board to evaluate proposed solutions for alignment with standards and the enterprise roadmap. Ensure that projects undergo proper **architecture reviews and approvals**, and that any exceptions are justified and documented. Track resolution to follow up items.
- Drive stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement to architecture review processes to ensure architecture quality, maintainability, cost effectiveness, risk management, streamline approvals and improve stakeholder satisfaction / reduce friction.
- Champion the **continuous improvement of architecture practices and processes**. Refine the enterprise architecture methodology, tools, and governance workflows to be more efficient and “adaptive” without compromising on quality.
- ** Align Business & IT Strategy**: Link the organization’s **business mission and processes to its IT strategy**, ensuring that current and future technology needs are met in a sustainable and adaptable manner
- Develop and maintain **architecture models and roadmaps** that illustrate how the CRO’s strategic goals (e.g. efficient clinical trial operations, data-driven decision making) are supported by technology.
- Continuously update the enterprise architecture blueprint to reflect evolving business priorities and industry practices.
- ** Enterprise Architecture Development**: Align the **technology strategy and target architecture** for assigned domain areas within the enterprise. Create future-state architecture visions and multi-year roadmaps that guide technology investments and system implementations.
- ** Solution Oversight & Guidance**: Provide high-level **architectural oversight on complex projects**.
- Guide solution architects and project teams to ensure their designs **adhere to enterprise standards, integrate well with existing systems and factor in cross-project dependencies.**:

- Act as an **“EA Buddy”** to project teams - engaging early in projects to mentor solution architects through architecture planning and the ARB process/
- ** Engage Stakeholders**:Regularly meet with stakeholders to gather input, provide updates on architecture plans, and ensure that IT initiatives are meeting business and research needs. Foster strong relationships with project managers, engineers, and infrastructure teams so that architecture considerations are embedded into project lifecycles.
- ** Stay informed about relevant technology trends** (e.g. cloud services, artificial intelligence, data integration techniques, digital trial tools) to keep the architecture function responsive to business changes and technological advancements, with a measured and compliant approach.

**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, an