POSITION SUMMARY
Zoetis Tech and Digital (ZTD) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Domain Architect to lead the architecture and strategy across multiple critical business domains: Human Resources (HR), Legal, Finance, Corporate Communications, and Infrastructure.
This role will be responsible for aligning technology solutions with business goals, enabling business and ZTD leaders to make investment decisions, ensuring scalable and compliant architectures, and driving innovation across these domains.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural strategy and artifacts for HR, Legal, Finance, Corporate Communications, and Infrastructure domains in alignment with overall business goals. Create a multi-year roadmap that supports global cross-functional objectives, ensuring scalability and future readiness. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate and prioritize initiatives and ensure business alignment.
Architecture & Platform Design: Lead the design and development of a scalable, modern data architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing platforms and systems. Define and maintain relevant domain specific principles, standards, reference, current and target state architectures, patterns, and roadmaps using frameworks, and best practices. Ensure the solution stack is well-architected, secure, and optimized to facilitate decision making, analytics, and automation. Advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities. Assess application and technology landscape to explore opportunities for rationalization.
Innovation & Emerging Technologies: Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies in relevant domains. Partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and other emerging trends to improve efficiency, security, and compliance.
Leadership & Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders and relevant cross functional IT teams to understand requirements and translate them into architectural patterns. Facilitate cross-domain collaboration to address complex challenges and optimize enterprise-wide architecture. Provide guidance and mentorship to developers, analysts, and other technical teams.
Governance & Compliance: Working with stakeholders lead the governance processes to manage and maintain the relevant domain architectures, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and security standards are adhered to globally. Promote the Enterprise Architecture process, outcomes, and results to the organization and leadership.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with key vendors and technology partners to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions and that products are effectively used. Work with domain leadership to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related technology field
Experience:
- 10+ years in IT and business/industry work experience, including 5+ years in relevant architecture roles with hands on experience in deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure and network planning and operations.
- Ability to lead, working collaboratively with business and IT stakeholders.
- Strong strategic thinking and communication skills
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and modern IT infrastructure and network architectures and trends.
- Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, and processing environments.
- Experience in a global or multi-regional organization, preferably in the life sciences, healthcare, or animal health sectors.
Desirable Certifications:
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
- Azure Certified Solutions Architect or similar
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional – Architecture (CISSP)
- SAFe for Architects
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
- Strong knowledge of domain-specific systems such as HRIS, ERP, financial management systems, legal case management, and IT infrastructure and network platforms.
- Familiarity with contract management systems, financial compliance tools, and workforce analytics
- Proficiency with well architected frameworks
- Good working knowledge of Active Directory, cloud platforms and PaaS services, in particular Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of automation, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience in a range of database systems, microservices and SOA architectures.
- Experience with Agile and Scaled Agile software development practices.
- Passion for solving complex problems.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and work with cross-functional teams while thriving in a fast-paced growing company.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, which includes the ability to present complex topics to Leadership Team and non-technical audiences.
- Good understanding of budgets and project related finance management
- Strong focus on delivering business value and outcomes.
PHYSICAL POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Ability to travel when required.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000- $205,000. Our salary ranges are
determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the base pay target range
for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional
factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This position is also eligible for short-term incentive compensation
This position is also eligible for long-term incentives
In addition to compensation, Zoetis offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports the physical, emotional
and financial wellbeing of our colleagues and their families including healthcare and insurance benefits beginning
on day one, a 401K plan with a match and profit-sharing contribution from Zoetis, and 4 weeks of vacation.
Visit zoetisbenefits.com to learn more.
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