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Job description
Job Title : Enterprise Architect
Location : Somerville, MA
Long Term Contract
RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Governance
Define and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, standards, and principles across application, infrastructure, and data domains.
Develop and own the enterprise technology roadmap, aligning it with TransMedics' business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and regulatory obligations.
Establish and chair an Architecture Review process to evaluate new technology investments, integration patterns, and platform changes against established standards.
Assess the current-state architecture and identify gaps, technical debt, and opportunities for consolidation, modernization, or optimization.
Provide architectural oversight and guidance to project teams, business partners, and technical leads across all enterprise systems.
Partner with IT leadership to ensure technology decisions are made with full awareness of architectural implications and total cost of ownership.
Enterprise Applications Architecture
Serve as the architectural authority for TransMedics' enterprise application portfolio including Oracle Fusion ERP (Finance, SCM, Manufacturing), Critical Manufacturing MES, EQMS, Workday HCM, LIMS, and other corporate platforms.
Define integration architecture and data exchange patterns between enterprise applications, ensuring alignment, traceability, and minimal redundancy across the application landscape.
Guide Business Partners and Technical Leads on system design decisions, ensuring configurations and customizations adhere to architectural best practices and do not introduce unnecessary complexity or technical debt.
Lead architectural design for new module implementations, system upgrades, and cross-functional platform initiatives.
Evaluate build vs. buy vs. configure decisions and provide recommendations based on strategic fit, regulatory impact, and total cost of ownership.
Infrastructure & Platform Architecture
Own the cloud infrastructure architecture strategy on AWS, defining standards for compute, networking, storage, security, and resilience across hosted enterprise applications and platform services.
Define cloud landing zone design, account structure, and AWS service patterns that support enterprise workload requirements including SOX, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, and ISO 13485 compliance.
Design shared platform services including identity and access management (IAM), secrets management, monitoring, logging, and alerting in alignment with enterprise security policies.
Collaborate with IT Operations and Security teams to ensure infrastructure architecture supports high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
Evaluate and recommend managed AWS services to support enterprise system hosting and integration needs.
Data Architecture & Governance
Define and drive the enterprise data architecture strategy, including data models, master data management (MDM), data flows, and integration patterns across Oracle Fusion, MES, EQMS, Workday, LIMS, and other systems.
Establish data governance frameworks covering data ownership, data quality, classification, lineage, and lifecycle management across the enterprise application landscape.
Design scalable data integration patterns (APIs, event-driven, ETL/ELT) to enable real-time and batch data flows between systems.
Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR, and Quality stakeholders to define analytical data requirements and enable reporting, dashboards, and business intelligence capabilities.
Ensure data architecture supports regulatory traceability requirements including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, SOX audit trails, ISO 13485 records management, and GDPR data residency and privacy requirements.
Evaluate and recommend data platform technologies (e.g., AWS data services, data lakehouse, MDM tooling) to support enterprise analytics and operational reporting needs.
Compliance, Security & Risk
Ensure all architectural decisions and designs comply with applicable regulatory requirements including FDA, SOX, GDPR, ISO 13485, and 21 CFR Part 11.
Embed security-by-design principles into architecture patterns, including zero-trust networking, least-privilege access, data encryption, and audit logging.
Partner with Compliance, Internal Audit, and Quality teams during system validations, audits, and assessments to demonstrate architectural controls.
Maintain an architectural risk register and communicate technology risks and mitigation strategies to IT leadership and relevant stakeholders.
Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Leadership
Act as a trusted advisor to IT leadership, Business Partners, and Technical Leads, bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution.
Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior business leaders.
Lead architectural discovery workshops, design sessions, and technology evaluations with cross-functional stakeholders.
Manage relationships with key technology vendors and partners - Oracle, AWS, Critical Manufacturing, Workday, ensuring alignment with TransMedics' architectural direction.
Mentor and provide architectural guidance to Business Partners and Technical Leads across the enterprise systems team.
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
No direct reports (This position will not have management responsibilities).
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
None (Standard office environment).
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
8–12+ years of progressive IT experience with at least 3–5 years in an enterprise or solution architecture role.
Demonstrated experience architecting solutions across enterprise application, cloud infrastructure, and data domains within a complex, multi-system environment.
Experience with Oracle Fusion (ERP, SCM, or Finance modules) and/or other major ERP platforms in a design or architecture capacity.
Strong working knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud architecture patterns.
Experience designing enterprise integration architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns, ESB/middleware, and ETL/ELT approaches.
Solid understanding of data architecture principles including MDM, data governance, data modeling, and analytics platform design.
Experience in regulated environments (medical device, biotech, or pharmaceutical) with working knowledge of FDA 21 CFR Part 11, SOX, ISO 13485, and/or GDPR.
Proven ability to develop and communicate architectural roadmaps and strategies to senior stakeholders.
Excellent communication, documentation, and facilitation skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (preferably Critical Manufacturing), EQMS, or LIMS platforms in an architecture or integration capacity.
Familiarity with Workday HCM integration architecture and platform extensibility.
Experience with AWS data platform services such as Redshift or equivalent data lakehouse solutions.
Exposure to Industry 4.0 concepts, Industrial IoT, and smart manufacturing architectures.
Experience supporting digital transformation programs in growth-stage or mid-size life sciences companies.
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Worksite address
concord, CA, 94527, US
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