Solutions Architect - Development & Process Improvement

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. 

Job Responsibilities

Job Summary

The Technology & Data Solutions (TDS) business unit is the Syneos Health accelerator for life sciences innovation. TDS houses our advanced technology acquisitions, homegrown products & applications, actively participates in new M&A and partnership activities, delivers critical insights as part of our integrated strategy for customers and drives enterprise-wide adoption and change management for innovative tech & data solutions. Our work supports getting meaningful new medicines to patients faster, with greater positive impact. The Solutions Architect supports our business goals by translating business rules and stakeholder requirements into work plans and implementation strategies to support the needs of our customers.

Core Responsibilities

• Work independently to solve open-ended questions.
• Gather project requirements and specifications from clients and internal stakeholders (technical and non-technical) during the project development lifecycle.
• Translate business rules and stakeholder requirements into project specifications that leverage internal and external systems.
• Design data ingestion and transformation systems and processes.
• Support development team and process by developing production schedules and test plans, generating documentation, and assembling presentation material that define project guidelines and milestones.
• Engage directly with clients to communicate project updates (via in-person demonstrations, virtual calls/emails) throughout the production lifecycle; and moderate the change-management process.
• Coordinate internal (data engineers, data scientists, dashboarding teams) and external resources (e.g., data vendors) to ensure timely production cycle and client delivery.
• Independently prototype analytic tools and resources for quick-turn proof-of-concept scenarios, troubleshooting, and project development.
• Manage multiple production requirements, workstreams, and timelines, while ensuring that project outcomes match or exceed client expectations.
• Design and develop data models that support our enterprise client-facing healthcare analytic product line (e.g., dashboards, apps, widgets, automated reporting).

Qualifications

• Degree (BS/BA required, MS/MA preferred) in Information Systems or Management, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience utilizing and leveraging modern data and cloud technologies, like Snowflake, SQL Server, Tableau, Power BI, and Azure.

• Experience with Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory (ADF) for data engineering and analytics.

• Strong hands-on skills in SQL for data modeling, transforming, and analytics.

• Proven experience developing and integrating Web Services (RESTful and/or SOAP) in enterprise solutions.
• Experience in architecting, designing, and implementing data-centric and/or software solutions.
• Experience creating custom and templated data models for Operational, Performance, and/or BI dashboards/reports.
• Experience collaborating with both onshore and offshore product development teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience with EDC systems, CTMS systems and SSU systems is a plus.

• 3 to 5 years of Solution Architect experience required.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.