Principal Solution Architect - Therapeutics Development

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Job Function:
Technology Enterprise Strategy & Security

Job Sub Function:
Solution Architecture

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

The Solution Architect for Therapeutics Development plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the technical architecture that underpins next-generation R&D capabilities across small molecules, peptides, and oligonucleotides. This role bridges scientific needs with scalable technology solutions, ensuring automation, data, and digital platforms accelerate DMTA cycles and enable high-quality decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the Technology architecture vision, roadmap, and standards for the Therapeutics Development domain. Align technology landscape across squads to promote interoperability, modularity, and scalability.
• Provide architectural leadership across squads, ensuring alignment to enterprise patterns, reusable components, and modern engineering practices. And ensure compliance with security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards.
• Drive evaluation, design, and selection of technical solution options; build, test, and validate architectural concepts and prototypes. Translate complex business and scientific requirements into scalable and actionable technical designs.
• Partner with scientific customers to agree on technology options and ensure long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to improve leverage of enterprise capabilities (Cloud, data platforms, workflow engines, lab systems).
• Own lifecycle management for domain technologies, including the Product API catalog and the governance of integrations.
• Monitor emerging technology trends in lab automation, cloud engineering, AI/ML, and scientific computing. Conduct research spikes and feasibility assessments for new capabilities relevant to Therapeutics Development workflows and workflow automation
• Collaborate with product owner on the actual implementation, meaning building out the correct team, resourcing, budget and continued engagement to ensure the architecture is implemented as intended.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant scientific or technical subject area; Master's preferred.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• At least 3 years of experience enabling or developing scientific IT capabilities, in (bio)pharmaceutical discovery or early development.
• Strong foundational skills in IT, including database design, data engineering, cloud computing, and architecture principles.
• Proven track record to translate complex scientific and business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language for prototyping, integration, or workflow automation.
• Demonstrated experience owning products or platforms throughout their lifecycle in a multi disciplinary team environment.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and build trusted partnerships across functions.
• Experience in leading a team of external resources
• Experience delivering high-quality digital solutions including dependency management, release planning, change control, validation, and governance.

Preferred:

• Experience with lab-specific systems such as ELN, LIMS,SDMS, or automation control software.
• Understanding of GxP or regulated system requirements.
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and software validation practices.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:
Change Management, Compliance Management, Consulting, Developing Others, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise IT Governance, Inclusive Leadership, Information Security Management System (ISMS), Information Technology Strategies, IT Architecture, Leadership, Product Configuration, Requirements Analysis, Resource Allocation, Solution Architecture, Team Management, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees' and companies' performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location's eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.