AstraZeneca Looking for Associate Director – Enabling Units IT Solution Management at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

JOB TITLE: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

CAREER LEVEL: F

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

Enabling Units IT actively partners with business partners to deliver cutting-edge IT capabilities to fulfil AstraZeneca’s bold ambition of delivering life changing therapies to patients. Our ambition is to provide best-in-class expertise and leadership in technological solutions and Information Delivery that empowers our Enabling colleagues in the field and accelerates and improves strategic decision-making for a diverse range of partners. The team engages with some of the most exciting business areas within AstraZeneca and is faced with solving for a variety of complex business and IT challenges.

The “Enabling Units IT Solution Management Lead” will be accountable for the Solution & Services Delivery catering to various business functions (Finance, Human Resources, Global Business Services, Legal, Global Sustainability, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Affairs and Facilities Management) located in AstraZeneca’s Global Technology & Innovation Centres (GITC) in Chennai and Guadalajara. The role will report into the EUIT Head of Solution Delivery & Service.

This role will manage a team of IT professionals delivering a diverse set of services and building bespoke & integration solutions which will accelerate AstraZeneca’s ability to run and transform a critical business platform. Services will include Application Maintenance, Application Development, DevOps, Automation and Monitoring solutions.

Working alongside the Solution Delivery & Service Leadership team, the Solution Management Lead will manage Solution Delivery & Service Teams for the technology stacks across .NET, Java, Oracle, Power Apps & Enterprise Platforms. The Solution Management Lead needs a deep understanding of technology, architecture, and design along with experience in Service Management, using Agile methodology and DevOps principles. This leader should be passionate about software development and be willing to lead, coach and enable wider teams to grow and expand their software delivery capabilities and skills.

The successful candidate will be helping define, form, evolve and implement the strategy for the Solution Management teams in Enabling Units IT. From an operational perspective, the role is responsible for ensuring that all GITC services and deliverables are aligned to SLAs. An agile win: win approach and a continuous delivery focus will essential to continuously positively challenge the landscape status quo.

The role will be encouraged to continuously develop the team and identify and build new capabilities in the Solution Management area to help them be the engine room for leading Digital Transformation within Enabling Units IT and across our supported business areas. The role should have expertise for delivering business value via groundbreaking technological solutions and digital practices. This ability and desire will be tempered with a strong understanding and respect for compliance, data privacy and ethical technology considerations.

The role and core accountabilities

Own the strategy and operations for the Solution Management function by developing a deep understanding of the business strategies, priorities and challenges and ensuring that investments in the center are aligned to business objectives

Accountable for leading and continuously managing a global team (direct and indirect reporting lines)

Be an active member of the EUIT SD&S and GITC leadership teams

Build and support the teams through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development that helps drive high quality software delivery

Relentlessly passionate about ensuring the Operational aspects of IT are maintained all within agreed compliance and privacy guidelines as well as meeting or exceeding Business expectations

Optimally leading a complex dual location matrix organization with an agile approach to proactively manage demand with the business and articulate mutual understanding of priorities and value

Working collaboratively with:
Other GITC areas across enterprise functions (ETS, ECS, IGNITE) in support of complex cross functional opportunities.

Maintaining a strong understanding of the latest Industry/Technology trends and promote platform ways of working

A keen eye for anticipating future trends and ensuring AZ are early adopters as appropriate

Working in close partnership with Business and IT partners and ensuring a focus on collaborative working and a Win: Win approach

The Solution Management Lead will maintain accountability for the effective use of AstraZeneca’s Software Development Lifecycle methodology and practices aligned with IT platform portfolio delivery

As needed, the Solution Management Lead maintains and provides technical expertise to aligned implementation platform teams working on the development, configuration, testing, release, maintenance, and improvement of IT platforms and products

Education, qualifications and experience:
ESSENTIAL

Industry recognised experience in In-House/Captive or global IT service organizations

Experience in leading large organization’s (50+) and providing leadership/development to other managers and leading a diverse range of activities through others in a hybrid line management and matrix organisation

Collaborative, Innovative, Win: Win Attitude

Forward thinking and independent perspectives on Technology and IT leaderships

Evidence of leading and developing strategic solutions and business cases providing measurable business Value (Idea through to Delivery/Measurement)

Working in a complex Global Organisation

Understanding of software engineering CI/CD processes, with experience in the design and implementation of applications build, release, deployment, containerization and configuration control management

Experience working with JIRA, Service Now and Automated Testing tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, CI CD tools – Ansible, etc.)

Experience implementing leading edge technologies including .NET, Java, Oracle ADF, Springboot, eDiscovery tools, Elastic Search, Python, & CI/CD DevOps tools etc.

Experience in a validated environment with operational awareness of GxP and SOx

Desirable

Experience working with the Enabling Functions business areas

Experience in handling IT portfolios across multiple functional areas

Experience working in the Biopharmaceutical/Life Sciences industry (not essential).

Bachelors in Engineering + MBA would be the preferred qualification

Skills and capabilities:
Alignment with AZ Values and Behaviours

Agile Enterprise mentality

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Self-starter who continuously develops new skills and proactively leads own career and development

Excellent influencing, networking and collaborative working skills

Able to lead difficult discussions, manage expectations and deliver solutions across complex partner groups.

Ability to work well in and lead/collaborate across diverse matrixed global teams.

Expertise in Portfolio planning, project delivery and change management and problem solving.

Experienced sustainable relationship management skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives.

Desirable

Experience working in different countries/cultures.

Confidence presenting to large internal and external audiences.

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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