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Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America
Hybrid
About This Role
Biogen is seeking an accomplished Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture to define and govern the technology architecture supporting our 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, and business-value-driven outcomes.
As the lead architect for the Commercial and Medical domains, you will own the target-state architecture, business capability roadmap, and integration strategy across a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications. You will proactively identify capability gaps, reduce duplication and fragmentation, and guide architecture decisions that improve speed-to-market, reduce risk, and strengthen long-term technology scalability.
Working closely with business and IT leaders, you will translate strategic priorities — including new product launches, international expansion, acquisitions, omnichannel engagement, and medical communications — into actionable technology roadmaps. This role is critical to simplifying the GCM technology landscape, enabling innovation, and ensuring Commercial & Medical platforms are future-ready.
What You’ll Do
Define and govern GCM enterprise architecture standards across Commercial & Medical IT, ensuring alignment 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 key architectural decisions to ensure alignment with the target-state architecture.
Lead GCM integration and data architecture strategy, defining how systems connect through scalable, secure patterns such as APIs, event-driven architecture, data-sharing models, and enterprise data flows.
Develop multi-year enterprise architecture and business capability roadmaps that guide the evolution of Commercial & Medical platforms in line with business priorities, value streams, and capability needs.
Identify opportunities to simplify and rationalize the application portfolio, including reducing overlapping systems, improving integration quality, lowering total cost of ownership, and avoiding unnecessary technology fragmentation.
Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, including cloud services, automation, data products, AI/ML, and generative AI, evaluating their fit for GCM business needs and integrating high-value capabilities with the appropriate security and compliance controls.
Partner with cross-functional IT teams, including 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 in solution design and adoption of architecture best practices.
Represent GCM in enterprise architecture forums, ensuring Commercial & Medical priorities are considered in cross-functional technology decisions.
Who You Are
You are a strategic enterprise architect who understands how technology decisions create business value. You bring the ability to connect business strategy, capability needs, platform architecture, data flows, and delivery execution into a clear, actionable technology direction.
You are comfortable operating as a senior advisor and influencer across global business and IT teams. You can simplify complex technology topics for non-technical stakeholders, guide teams through ambiguity, and drive alignment without relying on direct authority.
You are future-focused, practical, and outcome-oriented — able to assess emerging technologies such as AI, automation, cloud services, and data products, while ensuring solutions remain secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.
Required Qualifications
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.
3–5+ years of experience in architecture leadership roles, such as Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent.
Strong experience in Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
Experience supporting Commercial and/or Medical business domains, with understanding of business capabilities, value streams, regulatory considerations, and global operating needs.
Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, APIs, event-driven architecture, and secure system interoperability.
Proven ability to translate business priorities into target-state architecture, roadmaps, and practical solution designs.
Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks and modeling techniques (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent).
Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across business, IT, and global delivery teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree, such as MS, MBA, or equivalent.
Experience with modern Commercial & Medical platforms, such as CRM, omnichannel engagement, medical communication, customer data, and analytics platforms.
Hands-on familiarity with major enterprise technologies, such as Salesforce, Veeva, cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure), and enterprise integration tools.
Familiarity with Customer Data Platforms, master data, data products, or advanced analytics ecosystems.
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.
Impact of the Role
In this role, you will help ensure GCM technology decisions translate into measurable business value. Your work will enable faster launch readiness, improved scalability, reduced system redundancy, smoother integration of new capabilities or acquisitions, and a more simplified, future-ready technology landscape. You will play a key role in helping Biogen’s Commercial and Medical organizations move faster, reduce risk, and maximize long-term value from technology investments.
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Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our Biogen.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.