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Our client is a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company. They apply science and their global resources to deliver innovative therapies that extend and significantly improve lives. Every day, colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.
ROLE SUMMARY
This Director of Architecture role manages technology strategy and digital architecture for Pfizer’s Global Product Development (GPD) solutions and applications.
The Solution Architect supporting GPD works with Client Partners, Creation Center personal and business leaders on systems and solutions that are used to plan, design, initiate and execute clinical studies to determine the safety and efficacy of medications, devices, diagnostic products, and treatment regimens intended for human use.
This role reports into the Digital Experience, Strategy and Excellence organization, which leads the strategic efforts in creating an enterprise architecture and master plan that ties together our experiences, data, workflows, capabilities, applications, integrations, and back-end services in a cohesive and holistic way. The architecture team leads the efforts to architect scalable, modern experiences, platforms, and solutions, using next generation enterprise architecture practices and emerging technology.
Key accountabilities:
- Develops a method to understand current and future business requirements and works with application owners, data domain owners and business leaders to ensure strategic business goals are met within the required timeframes.
- Owns design and architecture of GPD solutions and platforms that are integrated with the Pfizer business ecosystem working in partnership with Pfizer Digital teams. Acts a subject matter expert of the principles, concepts and theories and has advanced knowledge of this business domain.
- Plays a critical role in external collaborations with solution providers, thought leaders and vendors across the domain.
- Works with Client Partners, business stakeholders and Digital leadership to craft strategies for value-adding capabilities content, services or applications that support GPD business processes in a scalable, safe and secure manner.
- Works with Digital and business leads across multiple work streams to define, create, and maintain end-to-end operational efficiencies and controls for both Digital and business processes in supported systems.
- Consistently demonstrates excellent communication skills and can work effectively in a cross-functional matrixed organization. Ensures accurate and timely communication of the project milestones to the Digital Leadership team and creates a high-functioning team environment.
- Works with business leads and Digital colleagues across domains to prioritize initiatives and to ensure investments are focused on areas with the highest business value. Ensures that ROI on investments is achieved and that teams hit their financial targets.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Service Delivery:
- Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Understands customers’ operational needs and helps to drive strategic direction; Leads regular architecture and solution focused meetings with all levels of business stakeholders.
- Manages relationships with other Digital groups that are required for successful project deployment and operational activities.
- Anticipates internal/external business and regulatory/compliance issues that impact the system design.
- Ensures that all internal and external stakeholder expectations have been met through delivery of services or projects through Pfizer Digital teams and vendor management.
Strategy and Planning:
- Uses innovative business thinking to challenge the status quo and drive identification, quantification, proposal, and sponsorship of innovative business solutions
- Looks toward the broadest possible view of an issue or challenge; has broad-ranging personal and business interests and pursuits; can easily pose future scenarios; can think globally; can discuss multiple aspects and impacts of issues and project them into the future.
- Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; talks beyond today; talks about possibilities; is optimistic; creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the end-state vision; facilitates the agreement and documentation of a shared vision across multiple stakeholders; can inspire and motivate entire units or organizations.
- Understand business drivers and business capabilities (desired future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the targeted business outcomes.
- Facilitate exploration of new technologies, and new systems/configurations through proof of concept (POC) and pilot solutioning.
- Accountable for the formulation of the solution implementation approach, building consensus on the approach, and providing technical execution oversight of such solutions.
- Accountable for designing complex systems at the component level, makes strategic technology choices, provides oversight, or directly supervises the work of those who are doing so.
- Has Digital Leadership Team relationship management responsibilities and is expected to influence management/senior staff decisions.
- Serves as a company expert in solving highly complex problems across Digital platforms with modern secure platforms, cloud-based solution patterns and solutions ensuring security best practices are implemented.
- Knowledgeable about the regulatory constraints of leveraging GPD solutions in the healthcare industry (GxP, HIPAA, Sunshine, security audits & certifications, business associates agreements, etc.).
- Provides leadership in the definition of Webservice APIs and connectivity that enables Pfizer to integrate into the broader global healthcare ecosystem, enabling greater value exchange with partners & customers and the digitization/automation of end-to-end value streams & processes.
- Develops and sustains constructive partnerships between business and Digital stakeholders to ensure the success of project.
- Capable of writing and speaking clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles, at all levels of the organization; can get messages across that have the desired effect.
- Ensures effective, accurate and timely communication across the portfolio; prepares and delivers regular updates on project status, both in written and presentation format, to sponsors, business leaders and stakeholder groups.
Innovation and Risk Taking:
- Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
- Takes appropriate risks to achieve desired result; guides direct reports and team members on acceptable levels of risk taking
Financial Management:
- Works with the budget owners regularly to plan and execute on funding priorities and reporting
- Prepares business cases for IT investments and presents to governance bodies
- Actively involved in Annual Operating Planning budget cycle preparations
Matrixed Team Effectiveness:
- Is highly skilled in a variety of formal presentation settings; one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, and senior management; is effective both inside and outside the organization; commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something isn’t working.
- Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
- Arbitrates disagreements among solution stakeholders and makes business decisions/proposals where needed.
- Understands and communicates team roles/responsibilities and ensures all team members have access to project information necessary to be successful
- Solicits and evaluates vendor proposals with to augment internal expertise in service delivery.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree from accredited institution
- 10+ years of experience managing digital implementations of large, Global Product Development projects/programs
- 3+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and deploying secure platforms and solutions
- Enterprise Architecture framework definitions and solution modeling experience
- Strong interpersonal skills and evidence of enabling teamwork in a matrix environment
- Proven ability to build coalitions and develop strong partnerships across functions
- Strong diplomacy skills; able to navigate a difficult political environment
- Executive presence and ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization
- Experienced with indirectly managing staff and large numbers of geographically diverse onshore and offshore consultants
- An “execution mindset” focused on getting things done quickly and simply
- Leads and directs one or more project teams
- Demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
