Solution Architect - R&D

Haleon is a purpose-driven consumer company with a portfolio of trusted health brands including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®. The company operates in the consumer health industry and emphasizes delivering better everyday health through science and human understanding.

• Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect in Digital or Technology environments.
• Experience designing solutions across R&D, scientific, product development, or data-intensive domains.
• Ability to translate complex business and scientific requirements into implementable architectures.
• Understanding of integration patterns, APIs, and data flows.
• Solution design skills including logical architecture, integration, data flows, and non-functional design.
• Ability to provide pragmatic “minimum viable architecture” guidance to accelerate delivery.
• Clear communication skills with technical and scientific/business stakeholders.
• Comfort operating across ambiguity, experimentation, and evolving requirements.

Preferred:

• Experience in regulated or compliance-aware environments.
• Experience working with R&D platforms, lab systems, or scientific data platforms.
• Experience operating within enterprise architecture standards and governance models.

• Design end-to-end technology solutions meeting business, scientific, security, scalability, and operational requirements.
• Translate R&D business needs into solution architectures, integration designs, data flows, and target-state roadmaps.
• Define architecture for product development, laboratory, clinical, pre-clinical, and scientific data management platforms.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, target-state architecture, and technology roadmaps.
• Support end-to-end product lifecycle traceability across R&D, manufacturing readiness, and quality processes.
• Design secure and reliable data architectures, APIs, integrations, and data models for effective data sharing and reuse.
• Partner with Data & AI teams to enable advanced analytics, reporting, and AI-driven capabilities.
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory, validation, data integrity, privacy, and auditability requirements.
• Provide architectural governance including design reviews, technical guidance, and implementation oversight.
• Document architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and design trade-offs with timely escalation.
• Embed security, resilience, business continuity, and operational support requirements into solution designs.
• Drive standardization through reusable architecture patterns, shared services, and enterprise platforms while minimizing complexity.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, and business stakeholders to deliver effective technology solutions.
• Contribute to architecture best practices, standards, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Haleon is committed to equal opportunities and an inclusive culture valuing diverse backgrounds. Personal data shared during applications is voluntary and confidential, used for regulatory purposes and inclusion programs only. Reasonable adjustments for the application process are available upon request. Official communication will be via a @haleon.com email address to verify authenticity.