Job Title - Associate Director - Solution Architect
Career Level - F
Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives
Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
ABOUT ASTRAZENECA
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
ABOUT OUR IT TEAM
It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.
About the role
The Associate Director - Solution Architect is accountable for determining and architecting solutions that enable business capabilities, delivering in alignment with AstraZeneca’s IT strategy, roadmap, principles and standards. They work with other Architects in the Development domain and experience in this domain is essential.
The Associate Director - Solution Architect ensures that AZ technical solutions are delivered to AZ defined reference architecture and technology standards, and this includes the definition of such standards where there are capability gaps. The role will ensure that common architecture decisions are implemented consistently across the business and IT.
The role will provide Information Technology, business, data, application and domain specific architectural expertise and technical direction to projects. The Architect will work on architectures for business solutions and will specialise in at least one architecture domain, with the aligned domain for this role being the Manufacturing domain within the Operations
group.
The Associate Director - Solution Architect will ensure that common architecture decisions support both business and IT strategy, and that architectures delivered are compliant with relevant AZ architecture standards, blueprints and roadmaps. The role will assess and review the work of other architecture roles and create a balance between the immediate and the strategic. A
Senior Solution Architect will understand implications of architecture requirements to ‘As-Is’ architectures and define/update ‘To-Be’ architectures applying AZ architecture guiding principles. As a Senior Solution Architect, the Role is focused on strategy and project portfolios spanning a 5 year horizon and a 0-18 month horizon respectively.
To be successful in this role the candidate needs to be an experienced person who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team. The ability to work and communicate with senior business stakeholders in order to understand their goals, capabilities needed, and requirements and to translate these into comprehensive solutions is
essential. A clear, logical style, an ability to document architecture and key design decisions is crucial, as is the ability to communicate effectively while working closely with business analysts and project managers in order to span across business, application, data and technology domains as required.
Senior Solution Architect for IGNITE: Operations IT (Develop) Architecture
This role is accountable for the solution architecture and design across AstraZeneca’s Process Technology & Development domain with a focus on Digital Laboratory and Manufacturing to support the business objective of AI Enabled Drug Development.
You will be the responsible architect on projects within areas including but not limited to: Lab of the Future, Continuous Manufacturing & Advanced Process Control and key strategic global programmes supporting development of our development portfolio. You will be required to analyse, conceptualise, design and govern across AstraZeneca’s strategic IT landscape to in order to support business projects.
Education, Qualifications, and Experience
Essential
Experience implementing and maintaining business solution architectures under any formal framework for their domain of architecture
Proven ability to influence across business and IT.
Desirable
Demonstrated initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
Strong networking skills with good internal/external links
Desirable
Proven business acumen
WHY JOIN US?
We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.
We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.
SO, WHAT’S NEXT?
Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.
WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
Date Posted
14-Mar-2024
Closing Date
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
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