Total 2 Director/C-Level Information Technology job vacancies in central region

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We’re looking for Chief Engineer – Workflow Technology, who’ll be responsible for providing technology thought leadership to senior leaders for a distinct business area (in CBA we call this a Crew) undergoing an Agile transformation.    

Essentially, you’ll partner with the senior leaders, driving the technology direction for that business area, translate business strategy into technical strategy and be responsible for defining its technical roadmaps. You’ll also help business leaders understand technology concepts by working at the forefront of all technology decisions.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.  

We are seeking people who can:  

• Work at the Executive level, have confidence to present to the senior stakeholders (GM/EGM/C-level) and provide them technical insights in a business context;

• Define execution plans to achieve business outcome, this includes technical solution and roadmap, resource allocation and prioritisation, cost implication and optimisation opportunities;

• Assist in defining technical annual operating plan and define quarterly OKRs to achieve company and business unit goals. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to manage priority and dependencies. 

• Embed IT performance metrics to help members understand how they drive overall crew performance.

• Ensure IT risks, technical debt and the associated impacts are understood including helping the business area prioritise management of issues/incidents. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:  

• Are inspirational senior technology leaders, adept in leaning into technical challenges, helping create clarity, providing hands-on assistance and effectively prioritising work. Create supportive and trusted working environments, promoting collaboration and creative thinking across teams.  

•  Are highly experienced in software / systems engineering, working in an Agile environment.

• Are able to assess and monitor modern technology tools, platforms and applications to deliver solutions and leading-edge products of high quality, while operating at peak performance

• Can show the ability to work across teams and influence great outcomes, solve problems and operate at times with ambiguity.

• Are comfortable influencing and challenging business and technology stakeholders.

• Have experience in managing diverse stakeholders and expectations and juggle multiple priorities without sacrificing team alignment, engagement, productivity and velocity.

• Show excellent commercial acumen with experience in strategic planning. 

Tech skills  

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team; 

•  Workflow application experience-Pega, Appian, Salesforce, Service Now etc

• CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS (Amazon Web Service) CloudFormation + AWS Code Pipeline, Azure DevOps, Bitrise)  

• Experience in automated deployment of application in different hosting technologies (AWS cloud native, Kubernetes, VMware, VMs)

• Administrative level understanding of Source code control tools (e.g., GitHub, AzureDevOps)  

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today! 

Job Description

At our company, for more than a century we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most stimulating diseases.  Information technology is a critical differentiating capability for our research organization and a pillar of our Company’s strategy, with a focus on driving efficient, reusable, and easy to consume technology.  Frictionless, compliant movement of our clinical data lies at the center of our ability to bring new therapies to patients.

We are looking for Technical Lead for our Data Platform product line. The person will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and optimizing data pipelines, models, and consumption mechanisms for data across the clinical, regulatory, safety and quality domains. This role will work with stakeholders across the organization, including business partners who directly consume data for insights, IT Product Lines that generate and receive data to support business process, and our Central Technology Organization to develop and leverage common solutions for the enterprise. This is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership and transform the data eco-system for drug development data.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and architect scalable and efficient solutions for ingestion, storage, and consumption of drug development data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and access policies to ensure seamless data flow.
• Guide and direct the design of conceptual, logical, and implementation of physical data models to support data analysis and business intelligence.
• Ability to roll-up sleeves and dig into code to troubleshoot issues, provide root cause study and implement preventive measures to mitigate issues going forward.
• Lead and mentor team of data engineers. Lead by example and provide technical expertise and guidance.
• Engage with technical leads across different teams to identify and leverage synergies.
• Stay current with new emerging technologies and conduct POCs to assess and evangelize their adoption.
• Education Minimum Requirements:
• Minimum of BS (or equivalent) in Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, IT, or an equivalent scientific/commercial discipline.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience in designing solutions utilizing data platforms, preferably in data engineering.
• Extensive hands-on experience developing data systems in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling (3NF and dimensional)
• Experience with database technologies (e.g., SQL, DataBricks, RedShift, NoSQL), ETL and data integration tools (dbt, AWS Glue)
• Hands-on experience with DevOps technologies such GitHub, Git CI/CD and/or Jenkins and automation of deployment.
• Great interpersonal and communication skills; adept at working with colleagues from diverse disciplines and at all levels of the company, articulating complex technical topics at the right level of detail for specific audiences.
• Proven experience in team building, mentoring, and leadership with a demonstrated ability to inspire others to follow a common vision.
• Proven ability to execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively.
• Organizational skills, with the ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and efficiently prioritize work.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience developing reference architecture, principles and standards, and best practices.
• Familiarity with data science algorithms, such as advanced statistical methods, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP) modeling, and model evaluation, is a plus.
• Knowledge of business processes and industry/market trends within the pharmaceutical/healthcare space.
• Track record of successfully completing multi-stakeholder projects that require cross-functional coordination between departments.

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