Principal Enterprise Architect - AI & Agents
IQVIA
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Full-Time
$118,100
OfficeSenior
Job Summary
Within IQVIA’s AI & Technology Solutions (ATS) organization, the Architecture & Standards (A&S) group defines“the IQVIA way” of building technology. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) function, operating within A&S, is responsible for translating business strategy and OKRs into scalable, standards‑driven architectures that reduce technical debt, enable reuse, and transform business processes.
The Enterprise Architecture organization is seeking aPrincipal Enterprise Architect – AI & Agentic Solutions to define, govern, and evolve enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and roadmaps across a large, global technology landscape. This role plays a critical leadership position in shaping how AI and agentic capabilities are designed, governed, and adopted across IQVIA.
The ideal candidate combines strategic vision with architectural rigor. They understand how emerging AI technologies can reshape research and data operations within a CRO environment while ensuring alignment with enterprise principles, governance, and compliance requirements. This leader balances innovation with pragmatism and can translate complex AI concepts into structured capabilities, reference architectures, and reusable patterns. The role requires comfort engaging across engineering, data science, and senior business stakeholders to deliver responsible, scalable, and standards‑driven enterprise AI solutions.
Job Overview
The Principal Enterprise Architect is accountable for co‑designing target‑state architectures and reference models for AI and agentic solutions, establishing enterprise guardrails (patterns, standards, and decision frameworks), and providing architectural oversight for priority initiatives.
This role maintains a portfolio‑wide perspective of business and technical capabilities, identifying cross‑cutting needs and opportunities to consolidate platforms and services across application and data domains. The Architect champions interoperability and reuse through modern architectural approaches, cloud‑native delivery, and modern data platforms deployed on Azure and AWS.
What success looks like:
·Published and broadly adopted AI and agent reference architectures
Key Responsibilities
·Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for generative AI and agentic systems.
Required Qualifications
·10+ years of experience in enterprise or application architecture within large, complex organizations, including ownership of standards, roadmaps, and governance.
Preferred Qualifications
·Experience in healthcare or life sciences, with strong knowledge of the clinical trial lifecycle, real‑world evidence, or commercialization of clinical assets.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe
IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.
The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $118,100.00 - $328,800.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.