About the Role

　　Associate Director - WAN Solution Architect (Prague or India), Novartis, Prague, Czech Republic

　　1! Big Engineering organization with great opportunities to work with new technologies on a fast paced environment. As an Architect for our WAN solutions, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Novartis strategy to strive to Operational Excellence, achieves its goals through a proper architecture of its technology landscape. An efficient and effective technology landscape is essential to support our business processes within Corporate Functions. With a diverse customer group, the role will involve assessing, implementing, and integrating a mixture of enterprise standard solutions

　　Your key responsibilities:

　　Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

　　• Understand and translate enterprise needs into implementable technology solutions to enable long-term success

　　• Developing and maintaining WAN roadmaps and strategy, working with various other domain architects to align technology and service roadmaps

　　• Driving new technology/product/solution evaluations, providing leadership in the identification of specific technology standards for WAN services

　　• Wearing the 'engineering' hat regularly, driving product/solution Proof of Concept with other Network architects/engineers

　　• Identifying and leading your team to develop new WAN design patterns and participating on our WAN Technical Design Authority. Communicate and explain selected aspects of the solution architecture to appropriate stakeholder groups

　　• Being our expert on WAN Infrastructure platform security topics and identifying major security related deficiencies, then designing pragmatic approaches on how to remediate them at scale

　　• Reports on WAN posture status across company periodically and is responsible for maintaining a clear risk acceptance/remediation level

　　• Leverage architecture standards, architecture patterns, reference architectures, and other referential means to elaborate the most adequate solution architecture meeting functional and non-functional requirements. Validate solution architectures regarding their adequacy and adherence to architecture standards throughout the solution lifecycle

　　Diversity & Inclusion / EEO

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

　　Role Requirements

　　• 8+ years of relevant professional IT experience in the related functional area, with a solid understanding of IT infrastructure technology, systems and management processes in a regulated industry

　　• Bachelor of Science degree in information technology, computer science or related field

　　• 4+ years of experience as an Enterprise WAN Architect. Experience with change management through process engineering and/or participating in large-scale IT change / transformation programs dealing with WAN technologies like MPLS, VPN, SDWAN and Cloud Connectivity

　　• Experience of sourcing complex IT services, working closely with vendors and making full use of their abilities

　　• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain successful relationships with senior leaders from risk or non-risk/IT or non-IT backgrounds and ability to successfully manage projects involving multi-functional teams in a matrixed environment

　　You'll receive:

　　Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program - choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 90 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

　　Why consider Novartis?

　　236 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2022, and while we're proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people's lives.

　　We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

　　We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world's toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

　　Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

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　　Accessibility and accommodation:

　　Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to

　　Division

　　Operations

　　Business Unit

　　DATA, DIGITAL & IT

　　Location

　　India

　　Site

　　Hyderabad, AP

　　Company / Legal Entity

　　Nov Hltcr Shared Services Ind

　　Alternative Location 1

　　Czech Republic

　　Functional Area

　　Technology Transformation

　　Job Type

　　Full Time

　　Employment Type

　　Regular

　　Shift Work

　　No