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The role of Senior Manufacturing Solution Architect provides leadership to link the business mission, strategy, and processes of the GSK Global Supply Chain Manufacturing Domain to its IT strategy with plans, models and project solutions that ensure the current and future needs of the GSC Business organizations and IT will be met in an efficient, secure, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.
Align on strategic direction, translate business requirements into technology roadmaps and participate in planning how roadmaps will be realized.
Support the build out and implementation of a Manufacturing Architecture framework consisting of overall Digital Strategy, Functional Architecture Guidelines and Technical architecture definitions.
Identification of opportunities for new standards within the Manufacturing domain.
Increase flexibility in IT solutions and services to handle business change at reduced cost.
Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS in IT specific field).
Progressively responsible experience as an engineer and as a domain architect in the Pharma or other highly regulated industry.
Understanding of regulations that impact the Pharma industry (e.g. Understanding of core technology platforms and operational technologies in pharma industry environments.
Experience working in Agile / DevOps organisation.
Experience working with ITIL, ITSM, TOGAF, or similar frameworks.
Experience working in heterogeneous technology environments (preferably with a high volume of Windows, Mac endpoints and SaaS services).
Experience working in highly secure environments with active participation in negotiating security risk with business value or operational impact.
Experience in seeking the alignment of business and IT, driving common approaches, delivering sustainable, re-usable solutions using both agile and waterfall.
Ability to work in close partnership with other IT functions such as, security, compliance, infrastructure, etc. as well as partner closely with business leaders across global tech organizations to maintain the architecture in line with end user experience strategy.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class (US only).
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles.