Director Enterprise Architecture - Rahway, United States - Merck

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Job Description

Our Company's Digital Strategy is founded on the need for efficient, reusable, and user-friendly technology solutions. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is helping to lead this transformation. Our vision is to provide strategic technology decisions that link investments and achieved business outcomes. Our goal is to offer strategic technology decision-making that connects investments and achieved business results. This focus allows the team to be a crucial supporting partner with the business to help them gain concrete business value through our company's investments in digital.

This position is responsible for overseeing enterprise architecture for the Research and Development capability areas. The role will support Our Company's Research Labs and its IT function. The candidate will work closely with our Research & Development Division IT technology teams to make decisions on the business, systems, and technology architecture that drive digital investments for R&D. Furthermore, this role will collaborate with other areas of the business that have laboratory, clinical, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance capabilities, such as quality labs in manufacturing, and our Animal Health business.

The successful candidate will collaborate with business and IT leaders throughout the company and serve as a member of the extended our Research & Development Division IT leadership team. This position offers the opportunity to work in an enterprise team, interacting with leaders from all business areas, and actively contributing to the Chief Information Officer's vision of a more top-down, agile, and business outcomes focused IT organization.

Responsibilities:

Architecture:

• Delivering and documenting business architecture in collaboration with R&D stakeholders in the business and IT. Transforming our architecture artifacts into an enabling information asset.
• Authoring systems and technology blueprints and roadmap deliverables for laboratory, pre-clinical, clinical supplies manufacturing, clinical development, pharmacovigilance, and other R&D capability areas.
• Driving the declaration of standard technologies and use of architecture patterns within the domain area. Use agile, value-centric, business outcomes-oriented, and total cost of ownership-based principles to guide EA decision making. Ensure technology procurement decisions are aligned with these standards and patterns.
• Partnering with the product leads, teams, and divisional architects in our Research & Development Division /IT to reuse the best available technologies and processes.

Leadership:

• Driving rapid, disciplined, and evidence-based decision making. Justifying choices with research and clearly articulate the reasoning ("why") behind them. Presenting options, their pros and cons, and final recommendations using compelling storytelling to align stakeholders.
• Proactively identifying and solving the complex problems that impact the management and direction of our IT and business Strategy. Develop strategies that maximize success in risky/complex projects.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Management:

• Forging strong partnerships with business partners, business-facing IT-area business architects, data experts, and solutions architects. Collaborating to deliver good architecture discipline, create enterprise architecture deliverables and artifacts, and provide leadership for cross-functional teams, projects, and initiatives across divisions.

External Sensing:

• Staying current with pharmaceutical technology trends and introduce these best practices to the IT organization to meet the changing business landscape.
• Connecting with peer organizations external to the company, as well as key suppliers and industry-leading sources to derive strategic insights and trends while incorporating them into strategies and roadmaps for the company.

Skills:

Specialist Advice:

• Understands the systems and technologies supporting the R&D business capabilities including: discovery, basic research, laboratory instrumentation, laboratory operations, preclinical, process development, clinical development, value evidence generation, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, quality and overall R&D operations.
• Possesses working knowledge of relevant industry frameworks and regulations governing various business domains, for example 21 CFR Part 11 and computer systems validation for architecting solutions in a GxP environment.
• Understands the end-to-end R&D business processes and value streams.

Enterprise & Business Architecture:

• Experience with core capabilities, frameworks, and technologies necessary for building and maintaining a robust enterprise architecture practice.
• Decomposes problem into solutions in multiple domains: people, process, technology, and data. Leverage agile and product delivery models to effectively align IT execution to deliver the most value at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Strategic Planning:

• Crafts strategic plans and deploy policies, standards, and guidelines to power the delivery of these strategies.
• Proven ability to bridge strategy with execution. Delivers on the value of strategic architectures through the successful adoption of proposed roadmaps, architectures, and strategies.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Effectively collaborates and communicates difficult concepts with a variety of audiences and stakeholders including, but not limited to executive management, business leaders, IT peers, and colleagues worldwide.
• Demonstrates leadership and organizational skills that drive shared goals in a matrix organization, manages cross-divisional initiatives, and cross-functional teams in an extremely dynamic environment. Ability lead through ambiguity and manage and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.

Emerging Technology Monitoring

• Offers expert advice and develop/recommend leading-edge concepts, technologies, services, processes, or products to address future business needs. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and demonstrate expertise in leading-edge practices, techniques, and technologies. Ability to apply Cloud, SaaS, and modern Analytics and data integration architectures, platforms, and solutions

Foundational Skills

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills – able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways.
• Self-directed, self-motivated, focused leader who with little direction can fill in the gaps as to what is needed, and drive expected results.
• Effectively leverages diversity to enable the benefit of different perspectives.
• 12+ years prior experience in Enterprise, Business, Information, Systems & Application or Solution Architectures.

Education requirement

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related field.

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Requisition ID:R279428