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HC or LiSci Enterprise Archt (Dir/CTO level) - 2 needed

Job Title: HC or LiSci Enterprise Archt (Dir/CTO level) - 2 needed Location: Any major metro in NE, SE, MW, or NW US Job Description: Our client’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Consulting Practice serves nearly all of the world's largest and most prestigious pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. They offer solutions to help clients address a wide range of issues affecting business growth for both established as well as early stage and emerging life sciences companies. From inception to initial public offering or global product launch, their professionals have comprehensive experience in: customer channel strategy, merger and acquisitions, clinical trials, supply chain optimization, investment prioritization, commercialization strategy, financial and performance management, R&D regulatory requirements, operations excellence, IT strategy, CRM, Portals, EAI, and more. Our client’s technology consultants, working with other IT organizations, can help their clients to use technology integration to solve business challenges. Our client’s technology specialists, most with extensive experience in systems integration and development, are committed to delivering efficient, technology-based solutions to their clients. They assess their client's current technology needs and assist with systems design and implementation to improve both enterprise-wide integration and profitability. Through their long-term partnerships with many of the world's leading technology companies they can offer extremely cost effective implementation to their clients. The objective of this role is to deliver IT value that helps drive business results by understanding both the business of technology and how technology works within the business through: - IT Strategy & Alignment Develop business-aligned IT Strategy driven both from a top down analysis starting with an articulated business strategy and a bottom up technology capability assessment. - Enterprise Architecture Deliver both the enterprise architectural blueprinting and governance design capabilities required to effectively define and deliver IT services and capabilities within an organization. - IT Effectiveness Assist clients in “operationalizing” their strategies by formalizing the tools and processes needed to understand how IT resources and programs create and maximize shareholder (business) value. - Technology Innovation Leverage emerging technologies (e.g., wireless, sensors, narrow-casting, video, RFID, smart displays, etc.) to create completely new business models and potentially disruptive strategies for revenue enhancement and cost efficiency Job Qualifications: An Enterprise Architect is more than just a single Domain Architect. An Enterprise Architect must be able to: Manage the process of establishing an enterprise architecture. Establish phased project plans that lead to a completed enterprise architecture. Lead development of architecture Guiding Principles and architecture blueprints, usually through collaborative client workshops. Prepares for and facilitates technology/ architecture brainstorming. Along with industry-focused teammates: Develop a thorough understanding of a client’s desired end state business model including both business strategy and operations Identify core business processes, the entities that interact with those processes, and the interactions between these core business processes. Decompose a business into meaningful units and processes. Facilitate discussions with senior executives to define the business architecture. Identify the logical technology components that support the business architecture. Decompose the core business processes into appropriate technology components and build the system architecture models. Model application architecture, the supporting infrastructure architecture, the application interface/integration model and build subject oriented information models. Explain the linkage from business architecture to supporting system architecture and the role that plays in business/technology alignment. Translate the end state business and technology models into architectural blueprints including recommendation of third party components, definition of required custom components, and determination of the appropriate boundary between architecture components and application layers Develop technology and implementation cost & benefit estimates Analyze existing architecture organization and recommend changes to improve architecture effectiveness. Develop architecture organizational structures appropriate to client's needs. Understand and express architecture roles and skills. Identify gaps in existing client skill base. Develop documentation to include job descriptions for key architectural positions, skill requirements and required certifications for roles/positions, inventory of required competencies by job description/role, and an inventory of required technical skills by job description/role. Understand key architecture governance models, underlying tools, and supporting processes (e.g. architecture approval, architecture change control, architecture's role in project and standards oversight). Understand and apply architecture governance best practices. Establish the specific metrics which communicate the benefits of an architecture program to the business and track to what extent those benefits are being delivered on an ongoing basis. Identify metric stakeholders and owners. Understand methods to capture and collect actual architecture metrics. The ideal candidate will possess the following professional qualities: Prior consulting experience in a "Trusted Advisor" role (Those without prior consulting experience will still be considered, but for a slightly lower level) Integrity - demonstrating the highest standards in everything you do Leadership Skills - motivating, influencing, and providing direction to others Team Skills - interacting and cooperating with others to achieve common goals Intellectual Competence - learning and processing new information, analyzing problems and new situations, and exercising sound judgment Flexibility - shifting priorities, adapting to new working situations and hours, and bouncing back from possible setbacks Motivation - setting high performance standards for yourself, and exceeding them Communication Skills - effectively articulating your thoughts and ideas both orally and in writing and proactively listening to others Prioritization Skills - organizing, planning and juggling multiple priorities and assignments to maximize productivity Customer Service Focus - developing, maintaining, and ensuring high quality client or customer relationships Technical Skills - acquiring and using specific knowledge of the technical tools required for the position Mentoring Skills - assist in the mentoring of more junior team members Ability to function independently and interact effectively with operational areas and colleagues Comfortable interacting with C Suite level executives Prior experience performing business development and relationship management functions Good written and verbal communication skills Excellent compensation. (Will not lose a great candidate due to money!) MUST be willing to travel M-F A minimum of a Bachelors degree is REQUIRED. Master degree and/or MBA is preferred Additional professional certification(s) is highly desirable. MUST be US Citizen or Permanent Resident