Portfolio Architect

Company Information

Clinical ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic-area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in Philadelphia, PA, Winston Salem, NC, and Iowa City, IA, Clinical ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.

Job Description

Clinical ink is seeking an experienced Portfolio Architect to lead the architectural strategy and execution across a portfolio of cutting-edge applications. In this role, you will proactively develop and communicate architectural views and frameworks to support both internal and external stakeholders. You will be a key member of a cross-functional team spanning product management, design, development, and QA, and ensure technical alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and long-term strategic goals. This position will play a pivotal role in ensuring Clinical ink's applications remain scalable, available, and performant. The Portfolio Architect's responsibilities include:

• Develop, manage and communicate a set of architectural views and viewpoints for a portfolio of systems for internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide architecture leadership in a joint product, architecture, innovation & design team collaborating with engineering and QA team leads.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and other executives to ensure that Product Innovation efforts are aligned with business goals, customer needs, and long-term vision.
• Stays up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies (e.g., DHT, wearables, AI), and regulatory changes to identify opportunities for new products and features.
• Aids in analysis and development of Strategic Product Roadmap and internal processes to link with workstream roadmaps and priorities.
• Advise on the prioritization of innovation pipeline elements, identified opportunities.
• Develops the architecture for design and product release deliverables consistent with SDLC standards, SOPs, methodologies, and best practices.
• Define, prioritize, and design key non-functional requirements and features within the platform to ensure high scalability, availability, performance and robustness of the platform.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a technology-related discipline such as Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field of study; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with architecture methodologies and modeling notations (e.g. TOGAF, UML, BPMN) for business architecture, data, application and technology layers.
• 5-8+ years of experience in building enterprise-class software products using HTML, Microsoft .Net, RESTful services, MSSQL, Java, or equivalent.
• Clinical research/pharma/life sciences industry experience preferred.
• Experience with architecting scalable applications, mobile, web and server architectures, including caching, concurrency and transactions, configuration management, connectivity, logging and instrumentation, performance, security, synchronization, web API and web service integrations.
• Good knowledge of key areas such as data, security, engineering and product management and well versed in next generation platforms/SaaS-based in environments.
• Experience working in a technical environment with a broad, cross-functional team to drive results, define requirements, coordinate resources from other groups, and guide the team through key milestones.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills, including the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels internally and externally.
• Exceptional prioritization, organization, and time management skills required.
  
  

Additional Information

Clinical ink is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.

www.clinicalink.com

Clinical ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic-area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in Philadelphia, PA, Winston Salem, NC, and Iowa City, IA, Clinical ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.