About this role
About the Role Biogen is seeking an accomplished Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture to define and govern the technology architecture supporting our Global Commercial & Medical (GCM) organization. This senior individual-contributor role ensures technology solutions align with business strategy, regulatory expectations, and compliance requirements while delivering secure, scalable, and business-value-driven outcomes. As the lead architect for the Commercial and Medical domains, you will own the target-state architecture, business capability roadmap, and integration strategy across a diverse ecosystem of platforms and applications. You will proactively identify capability gaps, reduce duplication and fragmentation, and guide architecture decisions that improve speed-to-market, reduce risk, and strengthen long-term technology scalability. Working closely with business and IT leaders, you will translate strategic priorities — including new product launches, international expansion, acquisitions, omnichannel engagement, and medical communications — into actionable technology roadmaps. This role is critical to simplifying the GCM technology landscape, enabling innovation, and ensuring Commercial & Medical platforms are future-ready.
What You'll Do
- Define and govern GCM enterprise architecture standards across Commercial & Medical IT, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security, compliance, and business strategy.
- Serve as the primary architecture leader for strategic GCM initiatives, shaping early solution designs and guiding key architectural decisions to ensure alignment with the target-state architecture.
- Lead GCM integration and data architecture strategy, defining how systems connect through scalable, secure patterns such as APIs, event-driven architecture, data-sharing models, and enterprise data flows.
- Develop multi-year enterprise architecture and business capability roadmaps that guide the evolution of Commercial & Medical platforms in line with business priorities, value streams, and capability needs.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and rationalize the application portfolio, including reducing overlapping systems, improving integration quality, lowering total cost of ownership, and avoiding unnecessary technology fragmentation.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, including cloud services, automation, data products, AI/ML, and generative AI, evaluating their fit for GCM business needs and integrating high-value capabilities with the appropriate security and compliance controls.
- Partner with cross-functional IT teams, including enterprise integration, data and analytics, security, infrastructure, delivery, and platform teams, to ensure architecture decisions are practical, scalable, and executable.
- Mentor and guide solution architects, platform architects, technical leads, and delivery teams to drive consistency in solution design and adoption of architecture best practices.
- Represent GCM in enterprise architecture forums, ensuring Commercial & Medical priorities are considered in cross-functional technology decisions.
What We're Looking For
- You are a strategic enterprise architect who understands how technology decisions create business value.
- You bring the ability to connect business strategy, capability needs, platform architecture, data flows, and delivery execution into a clear, actionable technology roadmap. You are trained on data up to October 2023.