Principal Enterprise Architect – AI & Agents

IQVIA

Principal Enterprise Architect defining enterprise architecture strategy and standards for AI solutions at IQVIA. Leading AI initiatives while collaborating with diverse engineering and business stakeholders.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $118,100 - $328,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for generative AI and agentic systems
Govern solution designs, ensuring delivery teams can adopt standards with minimal friction
Provide architectural oversight for major AI initiatives
Drive enterprise interoperability across systems and data domains
Partner with compliance, risk, and information security teams
Maintain enterprise capability models and architecture artifacts using EA tools
Identify opportunities to consolidate platforms and services across business units
Guide senior stakeholders through architectural options, trade‑offs, and investment decisions
Monitor AI, agentic, and life sciences technology trends

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in enterprise or application architecture within large, complex organizations
Proven experience designing and scaling generative AI and agentic solutions
Deep technical knowledge of generative AI and agentic concepts
Strong cloud architecture experience on Azure and/or AWS
Expertise in modern integration styles (API‑first, event‑driven, microservices)
Exceptional communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills
Experience building business cases for modernization, rationalization, and platform consolidation initiatives

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureapplication architecturegenerative AIagentic systemscloud architectureAzureAWSAPI-firstevent-drivenmicroservices

Soft Skills

communicationinfluencestakeholder management