Principal Enterprise AI and Transformation Architect
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Principal architect delivering enterprise AI, automation, and systems integration for Simulations Plus, a drug-development software company. Building production solutions and guiding transformation across regulated enterprise operations.
Responsibilities:
- Discover transformation opportunities and translate future-state process designs into technical solution architectures, prototypes, and implementation plans
- Lead technical discovery and feasibility assessments for complex transformation initiatives
- Translate business and process requirements into technical designs, working prototypes, implementation plans, and production solutions
- Own technical delivery through architecture, prototyping, build, testing, deployment, and stabilization
- Design, configure, build, test, and deploy enterprise AI workflows, copilots, intelligent agents, and automation solutions
- Engineer agent instructions, prompts, tools, knowledge connections, APIs, guardrails, escalation paths, evaluation, and monitoring mechanisms
- Build reusable workflows, prompt libraries, agent patterns, connectors, templates, and components
- Troubleshoot, tune, optimize, and support deployed solutions
- Design and implement enterprise-system configurations, workflows, business rules, and data structures
- Design and build API-based and platform-based integrations across ERP, CRM, financial, project management, collaboration, operational, data, automation, and AI systems
- Resolve complex technical problems involving authentication, APIs, data flows, integration logic, exception handling, automation, and AI
- Align solutions with enterprise architecture, configuration standards, integration patterns, security requirements, and change controls
- Transition ongoing ownership of configurations and integrations to appropriate system owners
- Design end-to-end solutions spanning business processes, enterprise systems, data, integrations, automation platforms, and AI services
- Develop solution architecture and platform recommendations balancing scalability, security, compliance, maintainability, user experience, and total cost of ownership
- Create reference patterns, design artifacts, and implementation standards
- Serve as technical lead and escalation point while remaining directly involved in prototyping and implementation
- Build proofs of concept and working prototypes; convert successful prototypes into production-ready solutions
- Evaluate emerging AI, automation, integration, and enterprise platform capabilities through practical experimentation
- Recommend whether to build, buy, configure, integrate, or retire capabilities
- Implement responsible AI, security, privacy, data-use, human-oversight, documentation, testing, release, and support requirements
- Build evaluation and quality-assurance approaches for AI outputs, agent behavior, workflow reliability, and exception handling
- Partner with Legal, Information Security, IT, Quality, and business stakeholders on regulatory and enterprise requirements
- Create standards and reusable controls supporting governance and compliance
- Prepare users, process owners, and support teams for new ways of working
- Create technical documentation and knowledge-transfer plans
- Scale successful solutions across functions using reusable patterns, components, integrations, and playbooks
- Communicate solution options, tradeoffs, progress, risks, and outcomes to executive, business, and technical audiences
- Act as thought partner to the Executive Director while owning priority transformation and AI work
- Mentor managers, architects, analysts, and solution teams through pairing, design sessions, reviews, and hands-on problem solving
- Influence across functions and align business teams, IT, vendors, and implementation partners
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience spanning business transformation, enterprise systems, solution architecture, intelligent automation, systems integration, AI enablement, or consulting roles
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, configuring, building, integrating, testing, deploying, and supporting enterprise solutions
- Hands-on experience building AI-enabled workflows, copilots, intelligent agents, retrieval-augmented solutions, or generative AI applications
- Hands-on experience configuring and integrating enterprise business systems and low-code platforms, such as ERP, CRM, Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Dynamics, Salesforce, Freshworks, or comparable technologies
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and troubleshooting API-based integrations, including REST APIs, authentication, data flows, integration patterns, connectors, and event-driven processes
- Ability to translate ambiguous business challenges into technical solutions, working prototypes, and production implementations
- Experience designing human + AI workflows, prompts, tools, guardrails, evaluation methods, exception handling, and operational support models
- Ability to move fluidly between executive strategy, workshop facilitation, architecture, configuration, development, testing, deployment, and support
- Portfolio or examples demonstrating personally delivered AI, automation, integration, or enterprise system solutions strongly preferred
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience delivering cross-functional initiatives in regulated or enterprise environments
- Experience in life sciences, healthcare, GxP, SOX, or similarly regulated environments preferred
- Enterprise architecture, cloud, Microsoft, AI, automation, Lean, Six Sigma, or related certifications preferred
- Occasional travel required for meetings, trainings, and conferences
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, operations, pharmaceutical sciences, or related field
- Master's degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, operations, pharmaceutical sciences, or related field preferred
- Advanced enterprise architecture, cloud, automation, or AI certifications a plus
Benefits:
- Fully remote work
- Flexible schedules
- Generous vacation policy
- Affordable health coverage
- Annual bonus
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