Job Description
Senior Specialist, Solution Architecture
The Opportunity
Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
An imperative around driving efficient, scalable, reusable, and easy to consume technology solutions is a bedrock of our Digital Strategy. The focus of this role is to “provide strategic technology decisions linked to investments that achieve business outcomes”. This role will set the direction and focus for the architecture capability that will underpin both our Manufacturing Division and the wider company’s Digital Strategy.
This position will support architecture guidance and governance for our Manufacturing Division, in support of the key capabilities in our global manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and operations value teams. The position, in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team, is responsible for delivering business, systems, information and technology architecture artifacts that drive investments for our Manufacturing Division. This role will work collaboratively with business and IT leaders throughout our company.
What will you do in this role
Collaborate with peer architects to deliver value-centric designs to support Manufacturing Division demands.
Create documented architectures in collaboration with the Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain Value teams.
Advise value teams on modern information architecture practices for system integration: iPass, (Application Integration as a Service), Data Abstraction Layers, APIs, ect.
Provide operational input into architectures for the various value teams to ensure plan and predictable performance for site based and enterprise applications / products within our Manufacturing Division.
Participate in the architecture community for our Manufacturing Division, gaining alignment of architecture practices and capabilities for the division, in alignment with Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices.
Update and maintain the Manufacturing Standard Architecture (MSA) and Enterprise Capability Model.
Support the collection / assessment of metrics of technology maturity, health, and business value and plays an active role in delivering the MSA.
Partnering with the EA Systems Architect team, re-use the best available technologies and processes from across the enterprise.
Lead the creation of a common and well managed set of Architecture practices, which includes architecture models, architecture methods and templates, architecture communities and training, and much more.
Stay current with industry technology trends, cross industry architecture standards and introduce best practices to our Manufacturing Division. Ensure our company takes an active role in developing and sustaining the relevant industry standards.
Effectively work with both waterfall and agile project teams to evolve the technical landscape toward the desired end state.
Prepare and deliver executive level briefings and communicate complex topics effectively to diverse audiences.
The ability to travel will be required Domestic and International (~10%)
What should you have
Education Minimum Requirement: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related study other.
Required Experience and Skills:
5+ years in a business architecture, information architecture, or system architecture role
Deep experience supporting at least one of the following areas: Manufacturing, Quality Labs, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing Site Operations
Experience documenting business processes and understanding how they align with technology topologies and architectures
Results-orientation with the proven ability and reputation for developing plans and implementing them successfully
Proven skill in partnering with stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills – able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways
Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with a variety of audiences and stakeholders
Primary Skills
Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry
Experience in integrating real time shopfloor and lab systems, at an enterprise level, with appropriate levels of resiliency and performance, using modern information architecture practices for system integration (iPaSS and Data Abstraction Layers)
Cloud technology architecture experience
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
Experience in developing Process and Master Data Management strategies
Experience in manufacturing analytics systems, supply and demand forecasting, biologics process modelling, and advanced image analysis
Understanding of regulatory requirements that drive IT and OT delivery, including 21-CFR-Part-11, Annex 11, Good Manufacturing practices, Computer Systems Validation, track and trace, and other global regulatory requirements that impact IT and OT systems in the manufacturing and supply chain space
Understanding of Information and Operations Technology (IT/OT) systems that support Manufacturing & Supply Chains, including manufacturing execution systems, quality & labs systems, resource planning systems, MES and Process Control technologies, track & trace, cold chain and other supply chain systems, OT security and shop floor networks
Working knowledge and application of Perdue Model, ISA S95 and S88 Standards in GxP environment
Experience in Enterprise Architecture
Experience implementing TOGAF framework.
Who we are
We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Required Skills:
Data Modeling, Design Applications, Digital Strategy, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Enterprise Architecture Management, Executive Briefing, Global Manufacturing, Information Architectures, Manufacturing Analytics, Manufacturing Support, Master Data Management (MDM), Oral Communications, Regulatory Requirements, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Technology TrendsPreferred Skills:
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