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About Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading American biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative medicines for unmet medical needs.
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Director, Enterprise Architecture - Research and Development serves as a strategic architecture leader within the centralized Enterprise Architecture team, specifically supporting the Research and Development division. This individual contributor role involves shaping technology strategy, developing multi-year roadmaps, and creating capability models to align scientific priorities with enterprise standards. The position requires leading architecture for complex initiatives, defining strategies for scientific AI and knowledge capabilities, and evaluating build, buy, or modernize options. Key technical competencies include experience with AWS cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven and integration architectures, high-performance computing, and secure AI architectures. The role addresses the technical challenges of pharmaceutical R&D workflows, including research informatics, laboratory systems, and data platforms, while ensuring all solutions remain secure, scalable, interoperable, and compliant within a regulated life sciences environment.
Shape and evolve R&D technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps aligned with enterprise standards.
Lead architecture for complex initiatives connecting business, data, security, and platform domains.
Develop capability models, target-state architectures, and reusable patterns to guide long-term evolution.
Define architecture strategy for scientific AI, including foundation models, knowledge graphs, and semantic layers.
Evaluate build, buy, and modernize options while balancing cost, risk, and technical debt.
Lead architecture reviews through governance forums and document trade-offs in business and technical terms.
Partner with Quality, Security, and Compliance stakeholders to embed regulatory requirements into architecture decisions.
Mentor architects and technical leaders to strengthen architecture practices and the federated community.
What we're looking for
Master’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years; OR Associate degree and 14+ years; OR High school diploma/GED and 16+ years.
Extensive IT experience in a corporate environment with significant architecture experience across end-to-end solution design, prototyping, integration, testing, validation, and deployment.
Significant experience leading architecture for projects of varying size and complexity across one or more business functions, including contributing to long-range technology strategies and roadmaps.
Experience developing capability models, current-state and target-state architectures, reference and transition architectures, integration patterns, and multi-year roadmaps.
Experience advising senior business and IT leaders, communicating complex architecture decisions and trade-offs, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
Experience overseeing, coaching, or guiding architects, engineers, or other technical professionals.
Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, life sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, business, or a related discipline (preferred).
Thorough knowledge of enterprise and solution architecture principles, practices, standards, frameworks, methods, and tools; TOGAF, IT4IT, or comparable certification is preferred (preferred).
Enterprise Architecture
AWS
Azure
Databricks
Snowflake
Redshift
API Management
Middleware
CI/CD
Agile
Generative AI
ERP
CRM
PLM
SCM
Data Governance
21 CFR Part 11
GAMP 5
Lakehouse
Low-code
Version Control