Principal Enterprise Architect

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Portugal
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Enterprise-wide architecture evolution
Align business capabilities and technology
Sap rollout and platform strategy
** Ferring Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the evolution of its enterprise architecture across Global IT. The role emphasizes aligning business capabilities with technology, ensuring architectural coherence, and driving outcomes that prioritize sustainability and value. **

Job Summary

  • Guide the evolution of Ferring’s enterprise-wide architecture by aligning business capabilities, enterprise applications, platforms, and underlying technologies across Global IT.
  • Shape a lean, pragmatic, and coherent enterprise architecture backed by actionable initiatives that move the organisation from its current state toward a clear target direction.
  • Build and strengthen the Architecture Community of Practice to promote consistency, capability growth, and best-practice sharing.

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** Ferring Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the evolution of its enterprise architecture across Global IT. The role emphasizes aligning business capabilities with technology, ensuring architectural coherence, and driving outcomes that prioritize sustainability and value. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Enterprise-wide architecture evolution
  • Align business capabilities and technology
  • SAP rollout and platform strategy
  • Pragmatic and coherent enterprise architecture
  • Influence-driven senior individual contributor
  • Architecture governance forums

Nice-to-have

  • Scientific advances in health
  • Entrepreneurial and innovative culture
  • Promote consistency and capability growth
  • Value-focused governance

Key Requirements

  • Extensive experience in enterprise architecture
  • Strong exposure to ERP-centric landscapes (e.g., SAP)
  • Proven track record leading architecture transformation
  • Ability to influence without formal authority
  • Experience running architecture governance forums
  • Strong architectural breadth across applications, data, integration, and platforms
  • Degree in IT/Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience

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