Competitive Salary & Benefit package

At AstraZeneca, patients are at the heart of everything we do.

In Operations IT we focus solely on performance and strategy – leading transformation and innovation and managing the development of new solutions. Collaborative and personable, we’re constantly liaising with multiple teams to understand their needs, monitor performance, and communicate changes. From system owners to system delivery teams, we’re the connected hub that drives things forward!

The Lead Solution Architect focuses on architectures for business solutions and will specialise in data and analytics across the Operations domain i.e. Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, Quality.

The role involves scoping and architecting solutions that enable the desired business capabilities, delivering in alignment with AstraZeneca’s IT strategy, roadmap, principles and standards. The role will lead a team of Solutions Architects within the Data & Analytics domain.

Projects in which you'll be involved include but are not limited to: Smart Factory, Digital Uplift, Digital transformation. Data and analytics are a core component of the Ops Smart Factory strategy and also core to IT2025 and this role will play a lead in defining the architecture to deliver the strategy.

What you'll do

• Design architecture frameworks and patterns aligned to Data & Analytics platforms and solutions including but not limited to: Data Lakes, Advanced Analytics, Reporting & Visual, Data Preparation, Data Profiling, Data Catalog.

• Designs architectures, solution blueprints for projects or solutions that address business/application/data/infrastructure requirements

• Work with Business Analysis and Solution Engineering functions and supports functional & technical requirements management.

• Ensure that solution architectures and designs are appropriately robust and address business, application, information and infrastructure architectural requirements

• Accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements and are aligned with the businesses Enterprise Architecture.

• Partner with project managers, business analysts, and solution engineers to create solutions that are aligned to AstraZeneca architecture standards and principles, utilise common solutions and services, and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits)

• Work very closely and collaboratively with the OpsIT Data, BI and Data Science leads. And also with the wider AZ IT data and analytics community from across the CFITs, Data Enablement, Enterprise Architecture and Shared Service teams.

• Support the Lead Enterprise Architect in defining technology roadmaps.

• Be accountable for solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates to support the business case

• Provide technical & IT expertise support to project teams and conducts AZ architectural reviews throughout project lifecycle

• Ensure compliance with existing EA guidelines and standards.

• Contribute to project and service teams in the development, implementation and maintenance of standard architectural components

• Document all architecture analysis and design work

• Work with peers to develop the Architecture Capability within Information Services.

Required for the role

• Relevant technical degree or equivalent

• Prior experience of managing a team

• Technologies: SAP HANA, BigData technologies, Spark, Presto, Front end tooling PowerBI, QlikSense, Data Science Tooling - Sage Makers and other similar platforms

• Proven development/design experience in at least one technical domain

• Ability to develop innovative solutions, blueprints and standards for solution design

• Experience implementing and maintaining business solution architectures under any formal framework for their domain of architecture

• Experience of developing and managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers

• Good communication, facilitation and relationship management skills

• Strong networking skills with good internal/external links

• Strong knowledge of procurement business processes

• Demonstrated initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working

• A willingness to travel internationally.

• Ability to work well in diverse, multinational teams and demonstrated ability to influence others to achieve positive outcomes

Preferred for the role

• Masters degree

• Architecture certifications, e.g. TOGAF desirable

• Experience in developing/maturing an architectural practice

• Understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, IT trends and of competitor activity

Advert Opening Date: 22nd January 2021 / Advert closing date: 7th February 2021

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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.