Trident Consulting is looking for a "Technical Data Architect Parsippany, NJ (Hybrid)" for one of our clients.
Job Role: Technical Data Architec
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Job Descripti
on:The Sales & Marketing Technology Architect will own the end-to-end solution architecture for commercial (Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Bid Management, and Tender Management) capabilities in a pharmaceutical environment. This role evaluates and selects technology products, designs scalable integration patterns, reviews technical artifacts, and provides hands-on architectural governance to ensure high-quality delivery of data models and business intelligence applications supporting sales planning, forecasting, bids, and tende
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Key Responsibilit
- ies:Architecture & Solution Design: Define target architecture, reference patterns, and solution blueprints for Sales & Marketing platforms, data products, and analytics applicati
- ons.Technology Evaluation & Product Selection: Evaluate commercial technology products (build vs buy) and recommend fit-for-purpose tools considering scalability, security, cost, vendor road map, and operating mo
- del.Integration Design & Delivery Oversight: Design and govern integrations across CRM, marketing platforms, data platforms, and downstream reporting; define API/event/file-based integration patterns, data contracts, error handling, monitoring, and resilie
- ncy.Sales Planning, Forecasting, Bid Management & Tender Management: Provide architectural guidance for sales planning/forecasting solutions, bid and tender management capabilities, KPI frameworks, and semantic models to enable consistent performance reporting and decision support and evaluate the COTS products against Teva business requireme
- nts.Data Modelling & BI Application Building: Drive dimensional/logical data models, curated data marts, and semantic layers; guide BI application design (dashboards, self-service datasets, and governed metri
- cs).Technical Artifact Review: Review and approve key artifacts including architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD, interface specs, data models, deployment architecture, test strategy, and runbo
- oks.Engineering Governance & Quality: Establish standards for coding, CI/CD, DevSecOps, logging/alerting, performance testing, data quality, and documentation; conduct design reviews and technical risk assessme
- nts.Team Oversight & Mentoring: Review the team's work, provide technical direction, unblock delivery, and coach engineers/analysts to improve design and implementation qual
- ity.Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with Sales Ops, Marketing, Market Access, Finance, and IT stakeholders to translate business needs into prioritized, implementable technical roadm
- aps.Compliance & Data Governance: Ensure solutions follow enterprise security, privacy, and audit requirements; define data governance practices (lineage, access controls, and data retention) appropriate for pharma commercial d
ata.
Required Qualificat
- ions:15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture / solution architecture, with significant experience in Pharma Commercial (Sales, Marketing, Market Access, or Commercial Analyt
- ics).Proven experience evaluating technology products and defining selection criteria (security, scalability, integration feasibility, TCO, vendor
- fit).Strong hands-on experience designing and governing integrations (APIs, event streaming, batch/file integrations, middleware/iPaaS), including non-functional requirements (performance, resiliency, observabil
- ity).Strong understanding of sales planning, forecasting, bid management, and tender management concepts (e.g., targets, territories, quotas, demand/forecast inputs, actuals vs plan, scenario planning, tender lifecycles, pricing submissions, and contract award workfl
- ows).Strong data modelling skills (dimensional modelling, star schema, semantic modelling) and ability to translate business KPIs into governed met
- rics.Experience building BI/analytics applications and semantic layers (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or similar) and enabling self-service with govern
- ance.Experience reviewing technical artifacts (HLD/LLD, interface specs, data models, architecture diagrams) and providing actionable review feed
- back.Excellent communication skills with ability to influence engineering teams and business stakehol
- ders.Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experie
nce).
Preferred Qualifica
- tions:Experience with commercial ecosystems and platforms such as Salesforce (Sales/Revenue Cloud), Veeva, tender and bid management solutions, marketing analytics platforms, and integration with enterprise ERP and pricing/GTN sy
- stems.Experience on cloud data platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and data engineering patterns (lakehouse, ELT/ETL orchestration, metadata manage
- ment).Exposure to syndicated pharma datasets and commercial data sources (e.g., IQVIA, Symphony) and common commercial
- KPIs.Knowledge of MDM concepts (customer/product hierarchies), data quality frameworks, and governance operating m
- odels.Experience with architecture review boards, enterprise standards, and regulated environments (auditability, segregation of duties, secure data hand
- ling).Key Skills & Compet
- enciesStrong architecture thinking with pragmatic delivery focus (ability to translate target state into incremental rele
- ases).Analytical mindset with attention to detail for data models, metric definitions, and technical specifica
- tions.Ability to review work products objectively and raise risks early with mitigation op
- tions.Collaboration and stakeholder management across business, data, and engineering
- teams.Strong documentation discipline and ability to drive consistency in artifacts and stan
dards.
About Trident Cons
ulting:Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we've partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional se
rvices.We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and
scale.
