Associate Director DDIT Dev CE, Solution Architect Integration

Job Description Summary

The role involves leading the integration architecture of the SCAPE SCE, ensuring it aligns with enterprise strategies and roadmaps, and delivering business value. This includes designing, evolving, and optimizing integration architecture, adhering to Security and Compliance policies, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders and scrum teams. Knowledge of clinical trial processes, data modalities, and clinical data standards is required, along with experience in Scaled Agile Framework methodology.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve the integration architecture of the SCAPE SCE according to the SCE roadmap and in alignment with roadmaps of upstream and downstream Development systems.
• Optimize and evolve SCE integration architecture for efficiency, in alignment with enterprise strategies, standards and requirements, while delivering business value.
• Ensure designs produced adhere to architectural roadmap, strategies and policies, and support the development, execution and operations of the SCE
• Ensure peer review and sign off of SCE integration architecture
• Ensure that detailed integration architecture and design adheres to the SCE solution architecture design (i.e. high-level conceptual design) and is traceable to functional as well as non-functional requirements
• Take accountability to ensure adherence with Security and Compliance policies and procedures within Service Delivery scope
• Engage with multiple stakeholders (architecture / business / vendor partners) to deliver the SCE product
• Coordinate with all other scrum teams and workstreams on the SCAPE project to deliver a quality SCE product on time and within budget
• Maintain and evolve Architecture tools and platforms, principles, policies and standards

Education:

• Bachelors degree in a computer science, engineering or information technology discipline. An advanced degree and related accreditations are a plus

Experience / Professional requirements

• 10+ years experience working in an IT environment in a regulated Pharma environment
• Experience architecting integrations across a multi-cloud network
• Experience collaborating across geographical and organizational boundaries
• Advanced knowledge of Lean/ 6 Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile methodology
• Technology-focused on data science platforms and experienced with cloud implementations
• Leveraging digital technology and effective change management to deliver value
• Track record delivering global solutions at scale, and interactions with senior management
• Delivery of validated IT solutions and collaborating across boundaries,
• Experience in IT enterprise & business architecture, IT solution architecture, performance management, managing resources, consulting, IT governance, consulting and quality decision making,

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.

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Skills Desired

Budget Management, Business Acumen, Consulting, Decision Making, Influencing Skills, Integrated Architecture Framework, Integration Architecture, Integration Architecture Implementation, Performance Management, Performance Management (PM), Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Strategic Planning, Waterfall Model