Senior Solutions Architect

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Design and maintain end-to-end SAS architecture in Azure Cloud, aligned with enterprise standards. Define integration strategies for SAS with internal systems and external partner sites. Oversee connectivity models (VPN, private endpoints) and ensure secure data flows.

• Environment Setup & Configuration: Install, configure, and optimize SAS Viya on cloud. Ensure scalability, security, and compliance with organizational standards.

• System Administration: Monitor system health, manage user access, and perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and patches. Provide critical incident management escalation support and guide support teams in resolving day-to-day challenges.

• Performance Optimization: Tune SAS Viya services, manage workload balancing, and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.

• Integration & Automation: Connect SAS Viya with enterprise data sources, APIs, and authentication systems. Automate administrative tasks using scripting tools (Bash, Python, PowerShell).

• Security & Compliance: Implement role-based access control, encryption, and compliance with GxP and regulatory standards. Validate security controls and ensure adherence to data protection policies.

• Collaboration & Leadership: Lead technical discussions in meetings with stakeholders. Mentor support team members and foster knowledge sharing. Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and IT teams to support analytics workflows.

• Documentation: Maintain detailed system documentation, SOPs, and change logs.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in SAS architecture and administration, with at least 3 years in Azure-hosted SAS environments.
• Proven experience administering SAS Viya and SAS 9.x environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix system administration, networking, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAS Certified Administrator for SAS Viya.
• Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery configurations.
• Familiarity with Stonebranch, Medidata, or similar integration tools.
• Prior experience in pharma/clinical data environments.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.