The Life Sciences Technical Solutions Architect leads product vision and strategy for language services, collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams to drive innovation and ensure successful implementation and adoption of technology solutions.
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Welocalize is seeking a dynamic and strategic Technical Life Sciences Solutions Architect to join our Life Sciences Service Line Leadership Team. This high-visibility role acts as the voice of the customer, the market, and the business, guiding our product vision and technical strategy to support industry-leading language services for global CRO & Pharma organizations. You will drive innovation by connecting client needs, market trends, and competitive insights to strategic product and technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the Solution Advocate: Represent and champion the needs of life sciences clients and internal stakeholders across all technology initiatives.
- Voice of the Market: Conduct market intelligence to understand customer challenges, regulatory trends, and competitor strategies. Translate these into actionable product and service opportunities.
- Tech Strategy Leadership: Develop and own a 1-2 year technology strategy roadmap aligned with Life Sciences business goals, ensuring we remain ahead of market needs and competitors.
- Collaborate with Product Managers: Work closely with technical product managers to define and refine product roadmaps. Shape high-level strategies into Board- and Leadership-ready narratives, and help decompose them into tactical delivery plans.
- Customer & Commercial Engagement: Engage directly with top clients and prospects to understand evolving needs, identify whitespace, and support strategic account development and pre-sales efforts.
- Competitive Differentiation: Identify and validate how Welocalize’s platform, data, and services differentiate us. Define positioning and packaging strategies that align with our life sciences value proposition.
- Cross-functional Partner: Work across Operations, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Compliance to ensure successful product implementation, adoption, and impact.
- Adoption & Measurement: Define KPIs for success and adoption. Monitor usage, performance, and business impact of tech-enabled services.
Job Requirements
- 5–10+ years of experience in product management, solution ownership, or strategic consulting roles, required within Life Sciences: Pharma, Biotech, or CRO.
- Demonstrated experience in developing strategic product roadmaps and bridging business vision with technical execution.
- Deep understanding of life sciences technology ecosystem of drug development including knowledge of CTMS, EDC, eTMF, and/or eCOA systems
- Experience working with or integrating products/platforms such as Veeva, Medidata, or similar technologies used for clinical trials data management.
- Strong knowledge of the competitive landscape and market trends in life sciences content services and localization tech.
- Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed teams, and presenting to executive and customer stakeholders.
- Familiarity with localization technologies (e.g., TMS, CAT, LQA, MT, integrations) is a plus.
- A structured thinker and storyteller who can translate complex problems into clear, compelling solutions.
Main Skills & Competences
- Experience collaborating with Engineering, UX, and Technical Product Managers.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like JIRA.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to influence at all levels.
- Strategic mindset with a strong execution orientation.
Top Skills
Cat
Ctms
Ecoa
Edc
Etmf
JIRA
Lqa
Medidata
Mt
Tms
Veeva
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