Job DescriptionThe Senior Manager, Digital Solutions Architect is a senior technical role responsible for designing and delivering scalable digital, data, analytics, and AI solutions across Finance, Commercial, Integrated Supply Chain, and Quality. This role partners closely with business-led digital teams to co-create digital products, define solution architecture, and ensure delivery aligns with enterprise standards, compliance requirements, and measurable business value. The Senior Manager helps standardize reusable patterns, guides engineering teams, and translates business priorities into scalable, secure, and reusable technology solutions.
Responsibilities and SkillsTechnical LeadershipSolution Architecture & Product Co-Creation
- Partner with business-led digital teams to co-create scalable data products, analytics solutions, and AI-enabled digital capabilities across Finance, Commercial, Integrated Supply Chain, and Quality.
- Define end-to-end solution designs across ingestion, transformation, data models, semantic layers, APIs, analytics, and AI components.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, supportable, and reusable architecture patterns.
- Support technical governance from concept and blueprinting through implementation and deployment.
Enterprise Data & Platform Architecture
- Design cloud-native architectures using technologies such as Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and modern analytics platforms.
- Build reusable KPI models, semantic layers, and reporting patterns across Finance, Commercial, Integrated Supply Chain, and Quality solutions.
- Enable integration of ERP, CRM, QMS, MES, planning, pricing, sales, marketing, manufacturing, service, and reporting systems into unified digital and analytics platforms.
- Support API-led and event-driven integration designs for interoperability across platforms and products.
Data Engineering, Governance & Compliance
- Ensure solution designs incorporate scalable pipelines, strong data quality, lineage, auditability, traceability, and operational reliability.
- Embed SOX, financial controls, FDA/ISO, data privacy, and enterprise cybersecurity requirements into solution architecture.
- Align solutions with enterprise data governance, master data, metadata, and cataloging standards.
- Ensure secure and compliant architecture across all digital and data products.
AI/ML, Analytics & Automation
- Support architecture for business use cases such as:
- Finance: forecasting, anomaly detection, profitability, margin, and working capital analytics.
- Commercial: pricing, customer segmentation, customer insights, and marketing effectiveness.
- Integrated Supply Chain: demand forecasting, planning, inventory optimization, manufacturing, and service performance.
- Quality: complaint analytics, CAPA insights, defect detection, predictive quality, and risk management.
- Enable AI-ready architectures with reusable data products, feature-rich datasets, and integration patterns for ML and advanced analytics.
- Support intelligent automation and decision-support workflows through analytics, AI, and orchestration frameworks.
Functional & Business LeadershipDomain Enablement
- Work with Finance, Commercial, Integrated Supply Chain, and Quality stakeholders to understand business priorities, decision flows, process pain points, and KPI requirements.
- Translate domain needs into scalable data, analytics, and digital solution designs.
- Help standardize KPI definitions, reporting frameworks, and business logic across initiatives and functions.
Digital Transformation & Value Delivery
- Support delivery of the digital transformation roadmap by designing scalable, high-value solutions aligned to business outcomes.
- Help prioritize technical capabilities and architecture investments based on value, risk, complexity, and reuse potential.
- Contribute to business cases and value tracking for key digital products.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to business leaders, digital product leaders, and technology teams.
- Facilitate architecture workshops, solution reviews, and roadmap discussions with business and technology stakeholders.
- Explain design decisions, trade-offs, and technical recommendations clearly to non-technical audiences.
Standards, Governance & Team Leadership
- Apply and reinforce architecture standards, reusable patterns, and governance guardrails defined by enterprise architecture and digital leadership.
- Drive reuse of common patterns, integration approaches, data models, KPI logic, and semantic definitions across multiple initiatives.
- Mentor architects, engineers, and analysts involved in digital solution delivery.
- Foster a disciplined, collaborative culture focused on quality, innovation, and measurable outcomes.
Key Requirements- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline plus 12 years of experience in solution architecture, data architecture, analytics, or digital transformation roles within large enterprise environments.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline plus 8 years of experience in solution architecture, data architecture, analytics, or digital transformation roles within large enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on expertise in modern cloud data and analytics platforms such as Azure, Databricks, APIs, integration patterns, and BI tools.
- Functional understanding of one or more of the following domains: Finance, Commercial, Integrated Supply Chain, or Quality, preferably in a regulated or complex enterprise setting.
- Proven experience leading technical workstreams, mentoring engineers and architects, and driving architecture standardization across multiple initiatives.
At BD, we are committed to supporting our associates' well-being, development, and success through a performance-based culture. For this position, BD offers a competitive compensation package along with the following benefits specific to this role:
Health and Well-being Benefits Medical coverage, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, Dental coverage, Vision coverage, Hospital Care Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Injury Insurance, Life and AD&D insurance, Short-term disability coverage, Long-term disability insurance, Long-term care with life insurance.
Other Well-being Resources Anxiety management program, wellness incentives, sleep improvement program, diabetes management program, virtual physical therapy, emotional/mental health support programs, weight management programs, gastrointestinal health program, substance use management program, musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit.
Retirement and Financial Well-being BD 401(k) Plan, BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan, 529 College Savings Plan, financial counseling, Baxter Credit Union (BCU), Daily Pay, college financial aid and application guidance.
Life Balance Programs Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves, educational assistance/tuition reimbursement, MetLife Legal Plan, group auto and home insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discounts on products and services, Academic Achievement Scholarship, Service Recognition Awards, employer matching donation, workplace accommodations.
Other Life Balance Programs Adoption assistance, backup day care and eldercare, support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers, caregiving assistance for elderly and special needs individuals, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), paid parental leave, support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes.
Leave Programs Bereavement leaves, Military leave, Personal leave, Family and Medical Leave (FML), Jury and Witness Duty Leave.
Primary Work LocationUSA NJ - Franklin Lakes
Additional LocationsWork ShiftSalary Range Information$152,600.00 - $244,200.00 USD Annual
