Director Architecture (Hybrid)

Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States; hybrid

Annual base pay: $119,900–$334,200

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Lead architecture strategy, governance, standards, and solution design across a large-scale multi-cloud data and platform transformation program.
• Oversee end-to-end architecture across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure, and reusable solutions.
• Drive the design and evolution of modern data platforms using Snowflake, Databricks, lakehouse, and data mesh architectures.
• Architect data warehousing, integration, analytics, applications, pipelines, and workflows for high-volume data processing.
• Enable AI/ML, advanced analytics, automation, and data-as-a-product capabilities across the data lifecycle.
• Lead roadmaps, design reviews, cost optimization, risk mitigation, emerging-technology evaluations, and mentoring for architecture and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in architecture, engineering, or large-scale platform roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering solutions in multi-cloud environments using Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, data warehousing, data integration, lakehouse architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native platform design, high-volume data processing, architecture governance, and scalable shared services.
• Experience enabling AI/ML and advanced analytics capabilities and applying FinOps practices in large-scale environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Health and welfare benefits may be available.
• Incentive plans, bonuses, and other compensation may be offered depending on the position.
• Equal opportunity employment and an integrity-focused hiring process.