Director, R&D Architecture Lead

Responsible for defining and driving the digital architectural vision and strategy for R&D initiatives. This role will own the creation and maintenance of the R&D Digital Roadmap (City Plan) and the architectural decisions across the R&D Digital projects. This role acts as a bridge between scientific innovation and technical execution, ensuring the creation of scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that enable cutting-edge research and product development.

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities

•Lead the design, development, and evolution of R&D systems architecture, including data pipelines, computational platforms, and integration frameworks

•Collaborate with Digital Business Partners, scientists, engineers, and product teams to align architecture with R&D goals and overall business strategy

•Evaluate emerging technologies and propose architectural innovations to enhance R&D productivity and enable next-generation research solutions

•Ensure architectural compliance with security, scalability, and regulatory standards, ensuring systems meet operational and compliance requirements

•Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, roadmaps, and reference models to guide development efforts

•Mentor technical teams, promoting best practices in software and systems architecture across projects and teams

•Partner with the I&T Enterprise Architecture team to define enterprise standards and ensure alignment of R&D roadmaps with CSL technology direction

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

•Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

•12+ years of experience in software or systems architecture, with at least 3 years in an R&D or innovation-driven environment

•Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and data-intensive systems

•Experience with R&D platforms in biotech, pharma, materials science, or related fields is a plus

•Proficiency in architectural modeling tools and frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar tools

•Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to engage cross-functional teams and communicate complex architectural concepts clearly

Our Benefits

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.

Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what's available to you as a CSL employee.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
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