Senior Forward Deployed Solutions Architect, Large Pharma – New Jersey, Remote or US Remote
About the job
SAS is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Solutions Architect, Large Pharma, a forwarddeployed, handson technical expert dedicated to a strategic, USbased pharmaceutical customer.
In this role, you will operate as an embedded consultant and forwarddeployed engineer, working closely with business, data science, engineering, and IT teams at the customer site in New Jersey. Your mission is to cocreate innovative analytics, AIdriven, agentbased, and datacentric solutions on top of SAS technology, directly within the customers operational environment.
You will accelerate innovation and timetovalue by applying, composing, and extending SAS capabilities to address highimpact pharmaceutical sponsor challenges.
This role is designed for longerterm customer engagement to enable sustained capability development and deep business impact.
As a Senior Forward Deployed Solutions Architect, Large Pharma you will:
- Serve as a forward-deployed, customerembedded consultant working directly with business and technical teams within large pharmaceutical organizations.
- Lead timeboxed innovation sprints (typically ~12 weeks), with continuity across multiple sprints, to design and deliver analytics- and AIenabled capabilities.
- Translate realworld business challenges into productionready solutions built on SAS platforms and integrated into customer systems and workflows.
- Apply life sciences and pharmaceutical expertise to identify and solve problems across R&D, clinical development, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and commercial operations.
- Codevelop new analytical methods, metrics, and AIdriven approaches that deliver measurable improvements for sponsors and manufacturers.
- Bridge industry context and technical execution, ensuring solutions are innovative, compliant, and usable in regulated environments.
- Design and implement analytics pipelines, AI/ML workflows, agentbased approaches, and decisioning solutions using SAS technologies, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
- Rapidly prototype, iterate, and operationalize solutions with customer users, progressing from proof of value to scalable, productionready capabilities.
- Partner closely with Sales, Industry Advisors, technical teams, Product Management and Customer Success to align embedded innovation with overall account strategy and support reuse across SAS.
- Clearly articulate business value, outcomes, and ROI, while providing structured feedback to SAS teams on customer needs, emerging use cases, and innovation opportunities.
- Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Required qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years ofexperience in life sciences/pharmaceutical consulting, applied analytics, data science engineering, or technical solution delivery roles.
- Strong handson experience building analytics- or AIdriven solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to work embedded with customers, including onsite collaboration in New Jersey and comfort operating in ambiguous, fastmoving settings.
- Proven capability to translate business requirements into technical implementations that deliver real operational value.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- Broadening Business Value: Exploring customers underlying issues and needs that suggest broader solutions; maximizing the productiveness of sales interactions by building on customer cues to gain commitment to products, services, and solutions; articulating and promoting a path forward.
- Building Customer Loyalty: Meeting and exceeding internal or external customer expectations while cultivating relationships that secure commitment and trust.
- Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal or external customers perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers and own organizations needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
- Ability to work on complex problems requiring simultaneous understanding of industry, data, and technology.
- Strong problemsolving skills and creative thinking in environments with evolving requirements.
- Capability to lead initiatives, define working approaches, and coordinate activities across business and technical stakeholders.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to explain advanced analytical or AI concepts in business terms.
- Strong relationshipbuilding skills and comfort working across organizational boundaries.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) thats free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. Theres a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
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