Associate Director Enterprise Architecture
Date: Feb 2, 2024
Location:
Zagreb, Croatia, 10000
Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals
Job Id: 53387
Who we are
Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.
The opportunity
The main role of the Enterprise Architect is to provide leadership, direction, and supervision of the architectural aspects of Teva’s Enterprise Architecture Road map implementation. In addition, the Enterprise Architect will lead and participate in digital innovation activities.
You will be part of Teva Global IT Architecture and Technology team, reporting directly to Dir. Enterprise Architect. Through this role, you will be able to impact Teva IT journey and support the company strategy. This role is highly visible, and you will be working with both IT leadership, IT delivery teams and business stakeholders.
This is an opportunity for a technology expert who has an eye for detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, who is willing to work collaboratively, and guide others as required. You will need to be pro-active, resourceful, and able to work under pressure to meet challenging deadlines.
How you’ll spend your day
Associate Director, Enterprise Architect will be responsible for discovering and architecting IT platforms and solutions. Responsibilities of the role will include the following:
Assessing current architecture (Cloud, On-Prem) and designing new architecture that meets the requirements and goals.
Maintaining the technology landscape and evaluating with the IT Management Units (ITMUs) how new technologies will provide new business capabilities and efficiencies.
Leading the process of introducing new applications and technologies into the portfolio together with the ITMUs.
Maintaining major systems and technologies roadmap. Plan with the ITMUs the implementation of this roadmap – in specific: major upgrades, technology changes and systems decommissioning.
Selecting the appropriate technologies from the available public cloud portfolio, key software vendors and innovative start-ups to meet the needs.
Ensuring that the architecture meets security and compliance requirements for data privacy, access control, and disaster recovery.
Implementing within the architecture, best practices including cost optimization, scalability, and performance.
Act as the solution architect for the assigned projects – develop the solution level architecture.
Responsible for identifying trends, disruptive applications and technologies that can substantially impact the ITMUs and business capabilities.
Working closely with your architecture teammates, sharing information, collaborating, and supporting other architecture activities.
Working closely with delivery teams such as: cloud engineering, security, data teams, as well as other IT professionals to ensure that your solutions meet the requirements and can be integrated into existing IT landscape.
Engage and support the ITMUs in performing Proof of Concepts of new applications and technologies.
Keeping up to date with new technologies and driving the evaluation and assessment of those technologies with various delivery units.
Collaborating with business stakeholders and IT leaders to identify opportunities for digital, cloud-based solutions that can drive business growth and innovation.
Lead and participate in digital innovation activities that may transform the way Teva works.
Your experience and qualifications
A minimum of a bachelor's degree in a Computer Sciences or equivalent is required.
A minimum of 5 years of IT architecture experience of Enterprise level platforms and projects in global companies.
Previous experience in designing the architecture of large platforms on public clouds (Azure/AWS/GCP).
Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements and map to IT capabilities and platforms.
Demonstrated ability to analyze systems requirements and designing IT solutions, choosing the best fit for the architecture.
A sustained record of success delivering complex IT Architecture and technology solutions to a diverse and global client
Able to drive innovation and continuous improvements for platforms and processes.
Strong IT vendor management skills.
Experience in working in a matrix managed organization (min 5 years)
Experience in Data and AI architecture – advantage.
Up to date knowledge and experience with cyber threats and how to build architectures to mitigate cyber risks- advantage.
Experience in modern and Cloud Native development technologies - advantage
Experience working in a Pharma IT landscapes (GxP and non-GxP) – advantage
Skills
Project management capabilities
Work in a dynamic environment with ever changing priorities.
Stakeholder management – ensuring delivery and managing expectations.
Planning and execution capabilities – seeing the process end to end.
Good interpersonal skills, cordial and respectful.
Excellent relationship-building skills, communication skills and team-based project experience.
Able to engage and manage up, down and across the IT and business without formal authority.
Able to develop and execute a vision for cloud based digital platforms and applications landscape.
Fast and quick learner, with passion for technological innovations, able to self-educate and knowledge transfer.
Team player – collaborating with others to achieve a greater goal.
Excellent English written and verbal communication skills at a senior level both internally and externally.
Travel Requirements: As needed by the business requirements.
Already Working @TEVA?
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