Senior Consultant - Medical and Market Access Solution – Commercial Architecture

Job Title - Lead Consultant - Medical and Market Access Solution – Commercial Architecture

Career Level - E

Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

ABOUT OUR IT TEAM

It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.

About the role

We are looking for an individual with validated skills in architecting technology solutions. In this role, you will:

• Designs architectures, solution blueprints for projects or solutions that address business/application/data/infrastructure requirements

• Works with Business Analysis and Solution Engineering functions and supports functional & technical requirements management, including driving software selection processes

• Ensures that solution architectures and designs are appropriately robust and address business, application, information and infrastructure architectural requirements

• Accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements and are aligned to AstraZeneca’s Enterprise Architecture, in support of a given portfolio.

• The Solution Architect will partner with project managers, business analysts, and solution engineers to create solutions that are aligned to AstraZeneca architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits).

• Within the solution development lifecycle the role will be accountable for solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates which chip in to the reason.

• Provides technical & IT expertise support to project teams and conducts AZ architectural reviews throughout project lifecycle

• Ensures compliance with existing EA guidelines and EA Software Standards

• Supplies to project and service teams in the development, implementation and maintenance of standard architectural components

• Works with third party suppliers as required and supplies to the creation of local or functional design documents

• Works with third party suppliers to verify technical development and delivery are in consistency with the Architecture Roadmap, Blueprint and Information Services Strategy

• Documents all architecture analysis and design work

• Supplies to the development of the Architecture Capability by documenting and sharing knowledge and standard processes with peer Architects

• Work with vendors and open-source communities to build strategic relationships.

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information System or related subject area

• 2+ years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering or a related role

• Extensive experience of Medical, Market Access, Web, Analytics and Integration technologies

• Experience in known industry architectural patterns and reference architectures

• Understanding the appropriate technology based on business use case

• Working knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies (DevOps, Agile etc.)

• Strong networking skills

• Understanding of composable architectures.

Preferred Qualification

• Experience working in pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotech industry

• Strong knowledge of Veeva Vault, Salesforce Service Cloud, Trackwise, Salesforce Digital Engagement, AWS, Mulesoft, and Snaplogic.

• Strong knowledge of ModelN and SAP.

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.