Associate Director, LCS Solution Architect,

Job Description

The Opportunity

·       Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

·       Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

·       Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

 

Role Overview 

As an Associate Director, Solution Architecture within the Enterprise IT Legal, Compliance & Security Value Team, you will support the Compliance Product Line, delivering technology solutions for the Ethics & Compliance Office (ECO). In this role, you will serve as the technical and compliance authority, initially focusing on the enterprise-wide Restricted Party Screening (RPS) program. You will be accountable for the end-to-end solution blueprint for RPS architecture/integrations — defining and coordinating solution architectures with delivery teams, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and constraints, and driving implementation feasibility across integrated systems. This role demands advanced expertise in designing, building, and supporting high-performance, compliant integration architectures across a multi-system landscape. You will drive technical strategy, ensure robust throughput and performance, and act as a key communicator and negotiator with technical stakeholders, proving the value and reliability of the RPS solution. Over time, this role may expand to define solution architectures for additional programs and products across the broader Compliance Product Line and Legal, Compliance & Security IT Value Team. You should be ready to lead with authority, operate with a high degree of independence, and serve as both a strategic architect and hands-on technical leader.

What will you do in this role

·       Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and compliant RPS integration solutions, consolidating processes and systems (e.g., SAP, Wall Street Suite, Veeva CRM, etc.) into a unified enterprise platform for the Global Trade Standards & Controls (GTSC) team.

·       Lead technical design and implementation of MuleSoft-based integrations, ensuring optimal throughput, reliability, and performance across all integrated enterprise systems.

·       Own and enforce architectural standards, ensuring all architectural decisions, integrations, and data flows meet regulatory requirements and internal enterprise standards.

·       Oversee and coordinate multiple concurrent integration streams, proactively managing dependencies, risks, and technical challenges.

·       Develop and maintain comprehensive program artifacts, including architecture diagrams, integration blueprints, performance benchmarks, and risk registers.

·       Conduct technical presentations, demonstrating solution performance, compliance, and business value.

·       Support and enhance RPS Dashboards and Portal from a technical architecture perspective, ensuring technical feasibility, compliance, and responsiveness to GTSC team change requests.

·       Act as the development lead, helping developers plan work, transforming requirements into implementation strategy, creating technical tickets, and discussing tasks with developers prior to implementation.

·       Monitor, analyze, and optimize system throughput and performance, including advising on performance testing strategy, running and monitoring tests, and providing evidence-based recommendations and solutions to stakeholders.

·       Manage database architecture activities as needed, including database structure updates and data modification scripts to support integration and solution integrity.

·       Investigate support incidents and leverage insights to identify and propose improvements and optimizations that strengthen the robustness of the RPS solution.

·       Supervise releases and participate in end-to-end testing sessions to ensure quality and compliance of deployed solutions.

·       Manage technology supplier relationships and troubleshoot data quality and integration issues from external providers, navigating both internal and third-party landscapes.

·       Drive stakeholder engagement across IT and the Ethics & Compliance Office, set expectations, and resolve conflicts through advanced communication and negotiation skills, managing ambiguity, resistance, and resource constraints.

·       Collaborate closely with GTSC, Delivery Managers, Business Analysts, and the Technical Product Manager to ensure seamless program delivery and alignment with business goals and timelines.

·       Contribute to broader Compliance Product Line initiatives as the portfolio evolves, defining solution architectures for additional compliance programs and products in partnership with the Ethics & Compliance Office.

·       Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and collaborating with the Product Manager. Participate in product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and product goals.

What should you have

Primary Skill-Solution architecture, Mulesoft, java, Power BI intregation
Secondary skill-GRC

Must Have

·       Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

·       12+ years of overall professional experience, including 8+ years of hands-on solution architecture experience in large-scale, multi-system enterprise environments, with a strong focus on integration architecture.

·       Proven hands-on expertise in MuleSoft (certification required) and Java, with demonstrated experience architecting and delivering high-throughput, high-performance integration solutions.

·       Hands-on experience with AWS services, including Amazon Aurora RDS (e.g., database structure design, configuration, performance tuning, and data modification scripting).

·       Demonstrated experience in performance engineering — advising on strategy, running and monitoring performance tests, and optimizing system throughput across complex integration landscapes.

·       Strong background in technical presentations, stakeholder negotiations, and cross-functional communication, with the ability to prove solution value and drive consensus across diverse technical and business audiences.

·       Experience managing multiple concurrent integration projects and technical streams under tight deadlines and resource constraints.

·       Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills, with a focus on technical excellence and compliance.

·       Proven ability to serve as a development lead, guiding developers on implementation strategy, supervising releases, and driving technical quality.

·       High degree of initiative, self-sufficiency, ownership, leadership, and adaptability in a dynamic, high-stakes environment.

·       Product and customer-centric approach with a strong commitment to quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Nice-to-Have / Beneficial

·       Master's degree in a related field.

·       Solid working knowledge of additional technologies including Node.js, React, Python, SQL, and Power BI.

·       Experience in compliance-driven environments or regulated industries (pharmaceutical, life sciences, or similar).

·       Experience managing vendor relationships and troubleshooting data quality and integration issues from external providers.

·       Knowledge of GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) principles, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise risk management.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are in United States and Canada and everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Cross-Functional Communications, Data Modeling, Design Applications, Digital Technology, Digital Transformation, Information Technology Operations, Integration Architecture, Mule Software, Performance Engineering, Product Planning, Quality Assurance (QA), Release Management, Requirements Management, Setting Expectations, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Negotiations, System Designs, System Integration

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06/26/2026

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