Business Technology Architect (Finance & Tax) - Life Sciences Industry Expert

Capgemini • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Business Architect – Life Sciences Industry Expert (Finance & Tax) plays a key role in shaping how Life Sciences finance strategy, tax considerations, and technology come together to enable compliant, scalable, and globally efficient operating models. As part of the Business Technology Architecture (BTA) discipline, this role helps define finance and tax capability models, operating constructs, and architecture frameworks that guide product, technology, and operations teams.

This position supports senior architects by contributing to the creation of reference architectures, capability maps, business process models, and solution designs across Life Sciences finance, tax, and enterprise platforms. The Business Architect collaborates closely with Finance, Tax, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, IT, Data, and Quality leaders to ensure end‑to‑end financial processes and tax‑relevant flows are coherent, compliant, auditable, and aligned to business strategy.

Experience in Life Sciences finance and tax operating models is essential, including exposure to Pharmaceuticals (Innovator & Generics), Biotechnology, MedTech & Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Consumer Health, and the extended ecosystem of manufacturing sites, distributors, and third‑party partners. This role ensures that financial and tax implications are properly reflected across global supply chains, legal entity structures, transfer pricing models, and commercial execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in business architecture, finance transformation, solution architecture, systems engineering, or enterprise transformation roles.
• Strong understanding of Life Sciences finance and tax operating models, including global supply chains, legal entity structures, and regulated environments.
• Practical exposure to Life Sciences tax considerations, such as transfer pricing, intercompany flows, manufacturing and distribution models, and statutory reporting implications.
• Hands‑on knowledge of enterprise finance platforms (e.g., ERP and finance ecosystems) and their integration with upstream and downstream systems.
• Hands‑on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), integrations, APIs, and modern architectural patterns.
• Ability to translate finance and tax requirements into capability models, process flows, and solution designs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills with the ability to work across finance, tax, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in controlled and regulated environments, including auditability, traceability, and compliance expectations.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with business or enterprise architecture frameworks (Capgemini Architecture Method, TOGAF, IAF, or similar) is a plus.
• Curiosity, learning agility, and a desire to grow into broader architecture leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Work with external or internal clients to build a holistic view of finance and tax strategy, capabilities, services, governance, organizational domains, and key business processes within Life Sciences.
• Lead or contribute to the development of finance and tax capability maps, value streams, and process models, including Record‑to‑Report, Order‑to‑Cash, Procure‑to‑Pay, FP&A, statutory reporting, and tax‑relevant processes.
• Assist in aligning business architecture models with enterprise and solution architecture standards, ensuring traceability from finance and tax requirements to system design.
• Contribute to enterprise and domain architectures for Life Sciences finance and tax systems, including ERP, finance sub‑ledgers, consolidation, reporting, and tax‑related platforms.
• Support the design of solution architectures that align with finance and tax capabilities, enterprise standards, and security, controllership, and compliance requirements.
• Produce architecture artifacts including capability models, process flows, value stream maps, and documentation for use by delivery teams.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews for finance and tax transformation programs.
• Support architecture across key Life Sciences finance systems such as ERP, financial close, consolidation, reporting, cost accounting, and tax‑relevant data platforms.
• Evaluate finance and tax technologies for functional fit, scalability, reliability, auditability, and regulatory readiness.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives including platform upgrades, finance process harmonization, capability expansion, and technology rationalization.
• Ensure consistent finance and tax design patterns across global entities, manufacturing sites, and commercial operations.
• Collaborate with senior architects to define architecture guidelines, integration patterns, and governance processes specific to finance and tax.
• Participate in vendor evaluations, RFP reviews, and solution assessments related to finance and tax platforms.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and architectural impacts across finance and tax programs and releases.
• Support delivery teams during design, build, integration, testing, and deployment to ensure solutions align with intended architecture.
• Ensure SRE, observability, and DevSecOps considerations are reflected in finance and tax designs in alignment with enterprise standards.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level