Director, Enterprise Data & Digital Platform Architecture

Durham, United States of America | Full time | Home-based | R1554763 We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Enterprise Data & Digital Platform Architecture to define and lead the architecture vision for next-generation data, analytics, and AI-driven platforms supporting healthcare and life sciences solutions. This leader will be responsible for designing scalable, cloud-native, interoperable, and compliant platforms that enable trusted data foundations, advanced analytics, digital workflows, and emerging AI capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in cloud and data architectures with strong business acumen and the ability to lead large-scale modernization initiatives. They will partner closely with product, engineering, data, business, and compliance stakeholders to establish architectural standards, guide investment decisions, and create reusable platform capabilities that accelerate innovation across a diverse portfolio of products and services.

This role is critical to advancing enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives, enabling data-driven decision making, AI adoption, interoperability, and future-ready platform capabilities while maintaining the highest standards of security, governance, and regulatory compliance.

Job Overview

This role will define and drive architectural strategy across data, cloud, AI/ML, integration, and platform domains, with a strong focus on:

Enterprise-scale data platforms and data products Cloud-native architecture and platform modernization AI/ML and agentic application enablement Metadata, semantic and ontology-driven architectures Data interoperability and standards-based integration Governance, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance Reusable services, APIs, and platform capabilities

The Director will lead architectural planning and technology roadmaps that support scalable, reusable, and future-ready digital ecosys