Lead, Solution Architect - R&D Digital Platforms - Bedford, MA, United States
$140,000 - $175,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves envisioning and designing end-to-end architectures for digital platforms, data, AI/ML, and user experience capabilities.
What you'll do
- Define and evolve Digital Innovation Platform solution architecture, including target-state blueprints and reusable patterns spanning experimentation workflows, data services, integrations, and experience-layer design.
- Design integration and data architectures supporting experiment execution, data capture, contextualization, data lineage, and enterprise reuse.
- Guide AI-enabled capability architecture, including search, summarization, and workflow orchestration.
- Evaluate and recommend build vs. buy vs. integrate approaches, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
- Provide architectural guidance and governance across delivery teams and partners through design reviews, architecture decision records, and standards/patterns enforcement.
- Enable secure delivery practices (DevOps/DevSecOps), advising on continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, infrastructure-as-code patterns, and runtime considerations.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in solution architecture and delivering cloud-based platforms and custom solutions.
- Experience with digital research and development (R&D) ecosystems and laboratory informatics (Laboratory Information Management Systems, Electronic Lab Notebooks, scientific data management systems, instrumentation integration).
- Depth across systems integration, cloud platforms, data and analytics architectures, and AI/ML concepts.
- Experience designing solutions that support research and development, engineering, manufacturing, or scientific/technical workflows.
- Experience working in agile delivery environments, including scaled agile (SAFe) models.
Nice to have
- Exposure to modeling and simulation, including high performance computing integration patterns.
- Familiarity with knowledge graph concepts and/or semantic search patterns.
- Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, and containerization/orchestration concepts (Docker and Kubernetes).
- Experience operating in federated, global environments with diverse processes, systems, and data landscapes.
Skills: digital platforms, data, AI/ML, cloud technologies, DevOps/DevSecOps
This role has been open 36 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
|
Open roles in category
976
|
Median days open
51 d
|
Median salary
$236k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Entegris | All employers we track in this specialty (976 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 976 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 19 | 6119 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 76 d | 51 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: digital platforms, data, AI/ML, cloud technologies, DevOps/DevSecOps
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 18 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 92 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 11 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 976 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.