Sr Architect
Syneos Health4 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architecture for assigned AI-enabled and automation initiatives across applications, data, models, agents, APIs, integrations, cloud services, identity, security, observability, and operations.
- Translate business outcomes, functional and non-functional requirements, and regulatory obligations into architecture options, technical designs, and implementation guidance.
- Design for scalability, resilience, performance, interoperability, maintainability, portability, reuse, capacity, failure modes, service limits, and operational dependencies.
- Develop practical patterns for generative AI, machine learning, intelligent workflows, agentic automation, retrieval and context, tool integration, human oversight, and exception handling.
- Assess model usage, compute, storage, data movement, licensing, vendor services, and support costs; create cost and capacity scenarios and recommend optimization controls.
- Embed telemetry, usage metering, cost attribution, budgets, performance monitoring, quality evaluation, and operational alerts into solution designs.
- Design reusable automation workflows, APIs, events, templates, policy-as-code, architecture-as-code, and paved-road patterns.
- Lead proofs of value and production pilots with hypotheses, success measures, guardrails, and exit criteria, converting results into reusable standards and implementation plans.
- Apply architecture, security, privacy, data governance, responsible AI, identity, access, auditability, evaluation, monitoring, and incident-response controls.
- Facilitate architecture reviews, document decisions and exceptions, surface risks, and drive remediation with delivery owners.
- Provide architectural leadership through discovery, planning, design, implementation, testing, release, and transition to operations.
- Collaborate across technical and business functions, communicate technology choices in business terms, develop reference architectures, and mentor architects and engineers while maintaining an individual-contributor focus.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Minimum five years of experience in software, solution, enterprise, cloud, platform, data, or AI architecture, including delivery of large-scale or business-critical systems.
- Experience designing and guiding complex solutions across cloud, applications, data, APIs, integrations, security, and operational environments.
- Working knowledge of generative AI, model and provider selection, retrieval and context patterns, agents and tool use, MLOps or LLMOps, evaluation, observability, and responsible AI controls.
- Experience designing for scalability and reliability and analyzing technology economics, capacity, total cost, and cost-performance-quality trade-offs.
- Experience advancing automation through APIs, workflow platforms, event-driven integration, infrastructure or policy as code, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or similar methods.
- Strong problem-solving, facilitation, communication, and documentation skills, including the ability to influence across functions and explain technical decisions to engineering and business audiences.
- Ability to work independently, lead architecture through ambiguity, manage competing constraints, and drive decisions without relying on direct authority.
- Preferred experience includes regulated industries, healthcare, life sciences, clinical or commercial technology, enterprise architecture methods, product operating models, Agile delivery, architecture decision records, governance, portfolio or lifecycle management, and relevant architecture, cloud, data, AI, security, automation, IT service management, or FinOps certifications.
Benefits
- Syneos Health offers career development and progression, supportive line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and a total rewards program.
- The company emphasizes an inclusive culture and opportunities to contribute to healthcare and life-sciences innovation.
- Equivalent experience, skills, and education will be considered.
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About Syneos Health
Syneos Health provides outsourced clinical development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, spanning clinical trials, medical affairs, and product launch support. The company operates under fee-for-service and functional service provider models across global drug development. Headquartered in Morrisville, NC, it was formed in 2017 through the merger of INC Research and inVentiv Health and was acquired in 2023 by affiliates of Elliott Management.