Senior Technical Architect, Life Sciences
InformaticaResponsibilities
- Advise Life Sciences customers on Salesforce architecture, delivery roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.
- Lead architecture for complex engagements and coordinate solution and technical architects across customers, partners, and Salesforce teams.
- Translate Life Sciences business requirements into solution designs for commercial engagement, medical affairs, patient services, clinical operations, and related processes.
- Design data, integration, identity, and security architectures connecting Salesforce with enterprise platforms, master data, content repositories, and clinical or safety systems.
- Translate privacy, security, quality, regulatory, consent, auditability, validation, and release-governance requirements into technical controls and processes.
- Review architecture, implementation approaches, and deliverables for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Guide Salesforce configuration and development and contribute hands-on when required.
- Shape data migration, legacy modernization, and multi-country rollout strategies.
- Partner with project and engagement managers to plan delivery, manage risks and dependencies, resolve issues, and set customer expectations.
- Evaluate AI and automation use cases, including data access, human oversight, and evaluation criteria.
- Mentor customers, partners, and colleagues; develop reusable patterns and industry knowledge; and support pre-sales activities when needed.
Requirements
- Authorized to work in the Netherlands and able to hold a valid work permit where required.
- At least 8 years of enterprise architecture or technical consulting experience, including at least 4 years leading Salesforce implementation projects.
- Experience delivering technology solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical technology organizations.
- Strong Salesforce application design skills with experience in data modeling, integration, identity, security, and platform scalability.
- Hands-on Salesforce configuration, customization, and development experience, including coding in object-oriented languages.
- Experience with APIs, enterprise integration patterns, data migration, and connected enterprise applications.
- Understanding of regulated-environment delivery, including privacy, consent, data integrity, and validation requirements.
- Ability to lead technical teams and architecture decisions across distributed, multidisciplinary teams using agile methods.
- Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills for explaining technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Willingness and ability to travel across EMEA North and occasionally internationally.
- Professional working proficiency in English; Dutch proficiency is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud experience, HCP/HCO master data, omnichannel engagement, medical content workflows, patient program integrations, CRM modernization, legacy migration, multi-country deployments, Agentforce, enterprise data platforms, AI-assisted development tools, Salesforce architecture certifications such as CTA, and enterprise transformation leadership.
Benefits
- Benefits and resources are described as supporting balance and employee well-being.
- The role is based in the Netherlands and serves the EMEA North region, including Benelux, the Nordics, and Switzerland.
- Travel across EMEA North and occasionally internationally is required, with travel planned in advance where possible.
- The position may require work on engagements outside Life Sciences and in other industries based on business demand.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com