Chief Architect Innovative Medicine (Belgium)

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Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.Learn more at jnj.com .

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Job Function:
Technology Enterprise Strategy & Security

Job Sub Function:
Enterprise Architecture

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements.

While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).

Belgium, Req #: R-093443, USA, Req # R-091881

ROLE PROFILE

Chief Architect - Innovative Medicine

The Chief Architect, Innovative Medicine Sector is the senior architecture leader responsible for defining and governing the technology architecture strategy across the Innovative Medicine sector, including R&D, Supply Chain, Commercial, Data, AI, Cloud, Integration, Security, and Enterprise platforms.

This role establishes the sector-wide architectural vision, principles, reference designs, standards, and governance model that guide technology investments and ensure alignment with business strategy, digital transformation priorities, and enterprise technology direction.

The Chief Architect partners closely with sector business leaders, product and platform teams, Technology Services, Information Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, and architects across other J&J sectors to promote common enterprise architecture principles, reusable platforms, and consistent technology decision-making.

The role serves as the architecture steward for Innovative Medicine, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, compliant, resilient, AI-ready, and aligned to both sector-specific needs and broader enterprise technology standards.

The role will lead a distributed team of 20+ architects and is accountable for advancing modern architecture ways of working, including the adoption of GenAI to accelerate blueprint creation, architectural analysis, pattern discovery, design documentation, standards compliance, and architecture decision support.

Scope

Innovative Medicine sector: R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial

Location

Beerse,...