VTekis Consulting LLC provides complete solutions for staff augmentation, recruitment process outsourcing, contract hiring, direct hire, and outsourced solutions. Our goal is to deliver quality professional services to our clients, not just to find someone to do a job; we match the right professional for your staffing needs and earn confidence through the proper assignment of people. This alignment of people and companies allows us to create opportunity. Most importantly, we don’t consider the process complete until we find the perfect fit.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Architecture Strategy & Point of View (PoV) Development

Current State Assessment: Deep dive into existing architectures to identify bottlenecks, technical debt, and scalability limitations.

Option Appraisal: Evaluate multiple architectural alternatives, providing a clear-eyed analysis of pros, cons, costs, risks & impact for each by keeping an unbiased & vendor neutral approach.

Target State Definition: Define robust target state architectures and create Architecture Point of Views (POVs) for high priority use cases in Data, AI, Cloud, Integrations and Collaboration platforms

Standardization: Develop and document architecture best practices, standards and Reference Architectures for common, repeatable use cases to ensure consistency across the enterprise.

Governance & The ARB

ARB Leadership: Present PoVs and architectural designs to the Architecture Review Board (ARB), defending technical choices while remaining open to collaborative refinement.

Process Improvement: Act as a key contributor to the evolution of our EA governance process, making it more agile, effective & non-disruptive.

Finalization: Work closely with the ARB to finalize and formalize all architectural artifacts.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Socialization

Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the "connective tissue" between Data, Analytics, AI, and Enterprise Integration functions.

Partner Enablement: Socialize finalized standards and best practices with the application / data / solution teams & external consulting partners to ensure high-quality delivery.

Business Alignment: Translate complex technical roadmaps into business value for non-technical stakeholders.

Skills:

Experience: 15+ years in IT, with at least 5+ years in an Enterprise Architecture role and 5+ years in a Solution / Application / Data Architecture role preferably within the Life Sciences, Med Tech or Healthcare sector

Technical Breadth: Proven experience in Cloud (GCP / AWS), Data Lake & Warehouses (Snowflake), AI/ML (Predictive AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI), Integrations (APIs, Pub-Sub, Streams, File Transfers)

Industry Domain: Prior experience in the Biopharma / Life Sciences industry is recommended or nice-to-have

Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with Life Sciences capabilities, functions (R&D, Drug Development or Clinical, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance, Manufacturing, Medical Affairs, Commercial), and common GxP / regulated use cases

Education:

Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Management or a related discipline

Frameworks / Certifications: Certified or strong familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman Ontology Framework or similar EA framework or methodologies (but with a practical, non-dogmatic application mindset)

 Skills:

Required

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE

Additional:

APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

DATA ARCHITECTURE

CLOUD

GCP

AWS

DATA LAKE

DATA WAREHOUSES

SNOWFLAKE

AI/ML

PREDICTIVE AI

GENERATIVE AI

AGENTIC AI

INTEGRATIONS

APIS

PUB-SUB

STREAMS

FILE TRANSFERS

LIFE SCIENCES

R&D

DRUG DEVELOPMENT

CLINICAL

REGULATORY

PHARMACOVIGILANCE

MANUFACTURING

MEDICAL AFFAIRS

COMMERCIAL

GXP

ARCHITECTURE POINT OF VIEWS (POVS)

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW BOARD (ARB)

GOVERNANCE

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP

PARTNER ENABLEMENT

BUSINESS ALIGNMENT

Languages:

English

 Read

 Write

 Speak

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Certifications & Licenses:

TOGAF.

Regards,

Mohammed ilyas,

PH - 229-264-4024 or Text - 229-469-1455 or you can share the updated resume at Mohammed@vtekis. com

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.