Description
Sr Dir, System Solutions Architect
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.
Job Summary
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the design and development of applications, ensuring they are built in a decoupled, scalable, usable, with security for a large enterprise. You will play a critical role in harmonizing our development stacks and setting the direction for our software development teams to align with our software development strategy. This is a full-time position, offering the flexibility of working remotely.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of talented Systems Solution Architects responsible for custom application builds, providing guidance and support in designing and implementing innovative solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute application build software development strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Drive the harmonization of application development stacks, promoting best practices and standardization across the organization.
- Oversee the design and development of custom build applications, ensuring they are built once and reusable, maximizing efficiency and reducing redundancy.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Understand and know when to apply the following architectural patterns; Microservice, Event Driven, Reactive, Service Oriented, and Layered
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to software development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and best practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in Systems Engineering and Solution Architecture.
- Must have recent application build experience with custom applications including full stack and data model experience.
- Proven track record of successfully leading software custom application development teams and delivering complex projects.
- Strong expertise in designing applications with a focus on build once and reuse.
- Extensive experience in harmonizing development stacks and driving standardization.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Must have a foundation of Software Engineering and hands-on expertise with
- Serverless architecture (AWS Lamda or Azure Functions)
- Modern Javascript-based web frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
- Building solutions using Node.js backend services
- Enterprise Integration technologies and patterns including REST APIs, streaming Kafka, messaging protocols JMS/AMQPm, GraphQL
What We’re Looking For
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, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
