Senior Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Architect - Sirion Platform

About Verista

Verista’s 500 experts team up with the world’s most recognizable brands in the life science industry to solve their business needs. The nature of our business is to empower growth and innovation within the scientific community and to help researchers, organizations, and companies solve some of the world’s most pressing healthcare challenges. Verista provides innovative solutions and services that empower informed decision-making and are the result of our significant investment in our people and our capabilities.

Our ability to grow is driven by world-class people who thrive in a team environment and share our mission to enable life sciences clients to improve lives. Our talented and dedicated professionals are committed to making an impact every day.

Company Culture Guidelines & Values

• We empower and support our colleagues
• We commit to client success at every turn
• We have the courage to do the right thing
• We encourage an inclusive environment where our colleagues feel respected, engaged, and challenged.
• We constantly acquire new skills and learn from our experiences to enhance our collective expertise

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical authority for the enterprise Sirion CLM platform.
• Design scalable Sirion solutions across contract request, authoring, clause and template management, workflow and approvals, repository management, obligations, reporting, analytics, and contract intelligence.
• Define and guide platform architecture, tenant and environment strategy, configuration governance, security, access models, deployment strategy, and release management.
• Design integrations between Sirion and enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, procurement platforms, e-signature solutions, identity platforms, data platforms, and other enterprise applications.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements and determine the right balance between native Sirion capabilities, configuration, integration, extension, and customization.
• Help establish architecture standards that preserve scalability, maintainability, performance, and upgradeability.
• Support contract and metadata migration strategies, data models, reporting architecture, and integration patterns.
• Partner with business, Legal, Procurement, IT, architecture, security, and implementation teams to translate complex requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Lead technical design discussions and challenge proposed solutions when there is a better, simpler, or more scalable approach.
• Prototype and evaluate emerging capabilities rather than simply relying on existing platform patterns.
• Help define the future roadmap for the use of generative AI, contract intelligence, AI agents, automated contract review, intelligent extraction, conversational search, obligation management, and workflow automation within CLM.
• Identify opportunities to connect contract data and intelligence with the broader enterprise technology ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to configuration, integration, data, and development team members.

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management solutions.
• Hands-on Sirion implementation experience is strongly preferred and will be a major factor in candidate selection.
• Experience with multiple enterprise-scale CLM implementations, ideally including at least one complex global Sirion deployment.
• A strong understanding of CLM architecture across pre-signature, execution, repository, post-signature, obligation, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
• Deep understanding of enterprise integrations, APIs, data mapping, middleware, authentication, SSO, security, and application architecture.
• Experience integrating CLM with platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, DocuSign, Adobe Sign, procurement/S2P systems, ERP platforms, and enterprise data environments.
• Ability to understand both the technical architecture and the underlying contracting process.
• Experience making and defending architecture decisions around configuration versus customization.
• A strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architecture, release management, environment strategy, and technical governance.
• Demonstrated interest and practical experience with AI, LLMs, intelligent document processing, contract analytics, generative AI, or agentic automation.
• Ability to distinguish meaningful AI use cases from technology hype and translate new capabilities into practical enterprise solutions.
• Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a complex global enterprise environment with multiple teams, systems, and stakeholders.
• Experience with additional CLM technologies such as Icertis, Ironclad, Conga/Apttus, DocuSign CLM, Agiloft, or similar platforms.
• Experience modernizing a legacy contracting ecosystem or migrating from another CLM platform into Sirion.