What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect position at Sutherland?
We need a US-based senior technical architect to lead solution design efforts in partnership with the consulting team and digital/IT stakeholders. The role requires both strategic design capability and hands-on architecture skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end solution architecture for the E-Protocol platform, ensuring it can capture structured protocol data and drive automation across the study lifecycle.
- Translate business pain points (manual drafting, inconsistent templates, heavy rework, fragmented tools) into technical requirements and design patterns.
- Define system integrations between E-Protocol and downstream applications through APIs, event-driven messaging, and canonical data models.
- Design supporting services such as rules validation, terminology/vocabulary management, scheduling logic, and automated quality checks.
- Ensure the architecture supports compliance, auditability, data lineage, and traceability in a regulated environment.
- Collaborate with the client’s IT/Digital team to align the E-Protocol solution with in-flight digital initiatives and long-term enterprise architecture standards.
Required Skill Set:
- Deep experience in enterprise and solution architecture, ideally in complex, regulated industries.
- Hands-on expertise with event-driven and workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Camunda, Pega, Decisions, or equivalent) in a Microsoft-based environment.
- Strong knowledge of API integration, canonical data models, and data orchestration across multiple applications.
- Experience with document and content management systems that use metadata and templates to generate structured content.
- Familiarity with rules engines, terminology services, and data validation frameworks.
- Background in data integrity and compliance for highly regulated environments (life sciences, healthcare, financial services, or equivalent).
- Proven ability to lead solution workshops, produce design artifacts, and partner with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
Thus the project involves someone with following strong skills
- Integration and Ingestion –
- Creation of an integration framework to accept the different formats (unstructured, API, xls, pdf, txt)
- Do conversion to a standard internal format (eg. use AI)
- Track the metadata for the study in a standardized manner
- Workflow – Define a workflow to track the end to end processes (Submission to getting back results).
- Each section of the Study may be handled by a different approving team/department.
- Escalation/Timeouts
- Resubmission – Define process to track and resubmit (deviation, amendment, revert back from earlier stages/flow) a study when values/requirements change
- Validation Rules engine - enforce/compliance
- Governance/Data Management – Standardization of fields and terminology (create a MDM, Glossary and source of truth system)
- Audit Trail – Define a audit framework to track every stage of the process
- Decision Making - Drive team consensus on tooling, processing
- Documentation – Creating technical artifacts C4/UML etc, DB diagramming tools
Salary : $125