Senior Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Transformation

Ergomed is a rapidly expanding full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO) and Pharmacovigilance organization with a global presence spanning Europe, North America, and Asia. Our company is committed to fostering a truly international culture that places a high value on employee experience, well-being, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We believe that by nurturing an environment that prioritizes these factors, we can achieve the highest level of client service and satisfaction.

As the (Senior) Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Transformation, you will play a crucial leadership role within our organization, taking on the responsibility of overseeing and managing the global technology architecture across all of Ergomed. You will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and be focused on driving innovation, optimizing our technology landscape, delivering measurable business value through your efforts and partnering with business teams to achieve technology-focused top line and bottom line business and IT transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and technology leadership to identify opportunities for change, develop business cases, prioritize and select opportunities and achieve dynamic change.
• Partner with teams to ensure business and IT objectives and relationships remain aligned and focused on Ergomed targets.
• Craft and execute an overall architecture strategy, ensuring it supports the company's strategic goals and business line tactical goals.
• Collaborate with senior leadership across technology and product development to influence strategic decision-making, ensuring architectural strategies are integrated with business objectives.
• Oversee a diverse technology landscape, bringing together in-house developed software and third party applications to create a cohesive ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities to grow our existing product suite and develop new product opportunities by aligning with technology partners and applicable client teams.
• Ensure our architecture remains agile and scalable, facilitating quick adaptation to market changes and new opportunities.  Ensure out product suite adheres to the same.
• Engage with the software engineering community to uphold engineering excellence, ensuring the appropriate definition and use of standards, patterns, and the evolution of tools.
• Identify and analyse regulatory and business trends impacting our tech stack and work with partners to remediate and gain competitive advantage if possible.
• You will take a hands-on approach to the design, development, and deployment of architecture frameworks, ensuring that (with business leadership) business value and return on investment (ROI) are delivered in a timely manner per agreed upon targets.
• Quantify technology investment against business ROI targets.
• You will stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in enterprise architecture and healthcare technology, driving the adoption of best practices and industry standards to maintain our competitive edge and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Participate with applicable teams to identify M&A opportunities, target value and/or differentiators and achieve business development and functional team goals.

Required Qualifications:

• You should have extensive experience in architecture, with considerable experience in a leadership role, and a proven track record of delivering business value through architectural initiatives.
• You should have a proven track record of successfully delivering enterprise architecture projects in life sciences, with demonstrable ROI and business value.
• You must possess excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate the business value of architectural initiatives to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You should be able to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and adapt to changing priorities, while maintaining a focus on delivering business value.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Domain knowledge in pharmacovigilance, clinical trials, or healthcare operations, and an understanding of how architecture can drive business value in these areas, is highly desirable.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, and the ability to leverage these platforms to deliver scalable and cost-effective architectural solutions, would be a significant advantage.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards, such as HL7, FHIR, and SNOMED CT, and the ability to leverage these standards to drive interoperability and data quality, would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements for IT in healthcare, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and FDA guidelines, and the ability to ensure compliance while delivering business value, would be a plus.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and software development within a GxP framework.

We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and the opportunity to work with a talented and dedicated team at the forefront of architectural innovation in the healthcare industry. If you are passionate about leveraging architecture to improve operational efficiency, patient outcomes, and healthcare costs, we would love to hear from you and discuss how you can contribute to our mission.

We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating an equal opportunities workplace and a human-centric environment where people of all cultural backgrounds, genders and ages can contribute and grow.  

To succeed we must work together with a human first approach. Why? because our people are our greatest strength leading to our continued success on improving the lives of those around us. 

 We offer: 

• Training and career development opportunities internally  

• Strong emphasis on personal and professional growth 

• Friendly, supportive working environment 

• Opportunity to work with colleagues based all over the world, with English as the company language 

Our core values are key to how we operate, and if you feel they resonate with you then Ergomed is a great company to join!  

Quality 

Integrity & Trust  

Drive & Passion  

Agility & Responsiveness  

Belonging 

Collaborative Partnerships  

We look forward to welcoming your application.