Summary
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning and Alignment:
- Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's business objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with senior management to understand business goals, identify technology needs, and propose IT solutions that support these goals.
Architecture Development:
- Design and implement comprehensive IT architectures, including application, data, security, and infrastructure architectures, to support the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle from research and development to manufacturing and distribution.
- Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps and ensure they are updated to reflect changing business needs and technological advancements.
Technology Integration and Management:
- Evaluate, select, and integrate new technologies and systems to enhance the organization's capabilities in areas such as drug discovery, clinical trials, supply chain management, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure seamless integration of new systems with existing infrastructure, minimizing disruption and ensuring data integrity.
Compliance and Security:
- Ensure that IT systems comply with pharmaceutical industry regulations and standards (e.g., GxP, HIPAA).
- Implement robust security measures to protect sensitive data, including patient information, intellectual property, and proprietary research data.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with various stakeholders, including business teams, domain architects, regulatory affairs, both at global and local level, to understand their IT needs and challenges.
- Facilitate effective communication between IT and other departments to ensure that technology solutions meet business requirements.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
- Stay abreast of the latest trends and advancements in IT and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in IT systems and processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT architecture or related area.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing enterprise IT architectures in a regulated environment.
- Excellent understanding of current and emerging technologies, including integrations, cloud computing, data & analytics, artificial intelligence, and security.
Has worked with some of the key vendors / technologies in the marketplace like ModelN, SAP, Vistex, Anaplan, Conga, Veeva (Vault, CRM), Anju (IRMS), Envision (Datavision), IQVIA (Engage Events management)
- Fluent English both written and spoken
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with specific pharmaceutical IT systems (e.g., LIMS, ERP, MES).
- Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical industry regulations and standards (e.g., GxP, FDA, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Knowledge of data governance and data management practices in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Overall understanding of commercial pharma architecture, content management and its associated data flows
- Understands the pharma landscape in one or more key markets (e.g. US, Canada, Brazil etc.)
- Understands the life sciences data landscape (data models concepts, key data suppliers, how the data from key suppliers are used) in one of more key markets
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