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Our product portfolio includes Mentor CTMS (Clinical Trial Management System), EDC, RTMS and Payments and a growing suite of AI-assisted tools for clinical operations and drug safety. We operate globally with teams across the United States and India, serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We are on an exciting growth trajectory — expanding our product portfolio, modernising our engineering practices, and building a world-class AI-enabled development culture. This is a rare opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a high-growth CRO from the ground up.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Role Overview</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The Chief Architect is a senior leadership role that owns Sitero's enterprise architecture vision and AI development strategy. This is a hands-on, high-impact role — you will set the standards, govern the decisions, and lead the transformation of how we build and scale our products.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">You will chair the Architecture Review Board, govern all AI tooling adoption across engineering, and build a lean but high-impact architecture team. You will work closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Operations leadership to ensure every product Sitero ships is built on a solid, scalable, compliant foundation.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Architecture Governance</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Own the enterprise architecture vision across all Sitero products (CTMS, EDC, RTSM, Payments and emerging platforms)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) bi-weekly reviews of significant technical decisions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Mandate and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for all major design choices</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Define architecture standards, approved patterns, and guardrails across the engineering organization</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Maintain living architecture documentation per product, regularly updated and accessible to all engineers</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Lead architecture audits across all products — identify gaps, risks, and technical debt</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">AI-Enabled Development &amp; Modernization</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Champion and mandate AI-enabled development as the standard operating model across all engineering teams</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Partner with the Head of Engineering &amp; Product development and roll out the approved AI tooling stack: GitLab, Claude Code, and AI test generation tools</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding to ≥70% across all teams within Year 1</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Oversee the migration to modern CI/CD practices: zero-downtime deployments, automated regression suites, rollback capability within 15 minutes</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Build the engineering practices that eliminate manual coding as the default and establish AI-assisted review as the norm</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Own Sitero's AI-enabled development strategy as the organisation-wide AI Development Strategy lead</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Govern AI tooling adoption: approve tools, define usage policies, and maintain the approved AI tooling stack</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Build and maintain the Prompt Standards Library — organisation-wide approved prompts for common engineering tasks</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Establish CLAUDE.md configuration files per repository, encoding Sitero's coding standards and patterns</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Mandate and track AI code disclosure policies: all AI-generated code disclosed in PRs with tool and prompt summary</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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