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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.
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Technology Enterprise Strategy & SecurityJob Sub Function:
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People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, BelgiumJob Description:
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).
Belgium, Req #: R-093443, USA, Req # R-091881
ROLE PROFILE
Chief Architect — Innovative Medicine
The Chief Architect, Innovative Medicine Sector is the senior architecture leader responsible for defining and governing the technology architecture strategy across the Innovative Medicine sector, including R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Data, AI, Cloud, Integration, Security, and Enterprise platforms.
This role establishes the sector-wide architectural vision, principles, reference designs, standards, and governance model that guide technology investments and ensure alignment with business strategy, digital transformation priorities, and enterprise technology direction.
The Chief Architect partners closely with sector business leaders, product and platform teams, Technology Services, Information Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, and architects across other J&J sectors to promote common enterprise architecture principles, reusable platforms, and consistent technology decision-making.
The role serves as the architecture steward for Innovative Medicine, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, compliant, resilient, AI-ready, and aligned to both sector-specific needs and broader enterprise technology standards.
The role will lead a distributed team of 20+ architects and is accountable for advancing modern architecture ways of working, including the adoption of GenAI to accelerate blueprint creation, architectural analysis, pattern discovery, design documentation, standards compliance, and architecture decision support.
Scope
Innovative Medicine sector: R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial
Location
Beerse, Belgium
Division / Department
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
Travel
15–25% domestic and international
About Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is focused on advancing ground-breaking therapies and delivering significant outcomes for patients, healthcare professionals, and health systems globally. The sector brings together capabilities across Research & Development, Supply Chain, and Commercial to discover, develop, manufacture, launch, and sustain innovative medicines at scale.
The Technology organization is a strategic partner to the sector, enabling modern digital, data and AI capabilities, secure and resilient technology foundations, and enterprise architecture practices that accelerate innovation, improve operational excellence, and create competitive advantage across the Innovative Medicine value chain.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Define and evolve the Innovative Medicine architecture strategy across R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Data, AI, Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Platforms.
Develop future-state architecture blueprints and principles that enable business agility, interoperability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
Drive technology modernization, platform simplification, and technical debt reduction across the sector.
Align architecture investments with business priorities, enterprise strategy, and measurable outcomes.
Lead and develop a global architecture organization of 20+ architects, fostering a high-performing and collaborative culture.
Architecture Across the Innovative Medicine Value Chain
Provide architecture leadership across R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial capabilities to enable an integrated end-to-end operating model.
Establish common data, process, and platform patterns that improve interoperability, reuse, and user experience.
Ensure architectures support global scale, lifecycle management, compliance, cybersecurity, and business continuity requirements.
Reference Architectures and Standards
Establish and govern reference architectures, design patterns, technology standards, and security guardrails.
Promote adoption of reusable enterprise capabilities and shared platforms to reduce complexity and duplication.
Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform enterprise architecture direction and standards.
Technology Roadmaps and Platform Alignment
Ensure alignment across business strategies, product roadmaps, platform roadmaps, and enterprise technology priorities.
Guide technology investment decisions, including build, buy, reuse, modernization, and platform consolidation strategies.
Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business leaders to prioritize strategic technology capabilities.
Enterprise Collaboration and Architecture Leadership
Partner with Technology Services, Enterprise Architecture, ISRM, and sector architecture leaders to advance common enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reusable platforms.
Represent Innovative Medicine architecture priorities in enterprise governance and cross-sector decision-making forums.
Drive consistency in architecture practices, governance processes, and technology lifecycle management across the sector.
Governance and Design Oversight
Lead architecture governance forums and establish clear decision rights, review standards, and issue resolution mechanisms.
Provide architecture oversight for pivotal initiatives, platform investments, technology partnerships, data products, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, business objectives, and target architectures.
Define and monitor architecture benchmarks to measure adoption, reuse, simplification, technical health, and value realization.
GenAI-Enabled Architecture Practices
Advance the use of GenAI to improve architecture productivity, including blueprint creation, design analysis, standards compliance, knowledge management, and decision support.
Establish governance and guardrails for responsible use of AI-assisted architecture practices.
Develop reusable architecture knowledge assets, automation patterns, and AI-enabled ways of working that improve speed, quality, and consistency.
Innovation and Thought Leadership
Advise senior leaders on emerging technologies and their impact on the Innovative Medicine strategy.
Promote engineering excellence, simplification, innovation, and architecture rigor across the technology organization.
Represent Innovative Medicine architecture in enterprise forums, industry engagements, and strategic technology partnerships.
Qualifications / Requirements:
Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
15+ years of technology leadership experience, including strong responsibility for enterprise, sector, or platform architecture.
Experience leading global architecture teams across multiple domains, regions, or business functions.
Experience applying GenAI or AI-assisted methods to architecture blueprinting, design documentation, standards governance, platform evaluation, or engineering productivity is preferred.
Experience in life sciences, healthcare, consumer health, medtech, supply chain, commercial, or another regulated global environment is preferred.
Expertise in cloud architecture, data platforms, AI/GenAI technologies, integration architecture, cybersecurity, digital platforms, and enterprise application landscapes.
Critical thinking, systems thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and architecture governance capabilities.
Executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology decisions into clear business implications.
Experience leading architecture governance, cross-sector collaboration, technology standards adoption, and large-scale modernization initiatives.
Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and modern product-centric delivery models is preferred.
Professional Experience
Experience leading architecture teams across large, global, regulated enterprises with broad business and technology scope.
Understanding of pharmaceutical or healthcare value chains, including R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Quality, Regulatory, Data, Digital, and customer-facing capabilities.
Experience defining enterprise architecture strategies, target-state blueprints, reference architectures, standards, governance models, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
Experience working with enterprise technology services, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, engineering, product, and architecture teams to deliver reusable enterprise platforms.
Understanding of cloud platforms, data architecture, AI/ML platforms, systems integration, cybersecurity, digital channels, enterprise applications, and modern software engineering practices.
Ability to influence senior leaders, product leaders, platform owners, architects, engineers, and external partners across complex organizations.
Ability to balance enterprise standardization with sector-specific business needs, regulatory requirements, and differentiated innovation opportunities.
Experience building architecture communities of practice, developing architecture talent, and driving adoption through influence.
Experience introducing modern architecture ways of working, including GenAI-enabled blueprinting, documentation, standards automation, knowledge management, and design review acceleration.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agile Workforce, Business Alignment, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Developing Others, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise IT Architecture, Enterprise IT Governance, Inclusive Leadership, Information Security Management System (ISMS), Information Technology Strategies, IT Asset Management Systems, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Process Improvements, Solution Architecture, Technologically Savvy