Job Summary:

The IT Solution Architect is member of a Global Commercial & Medical IT team that leads integrated service , projects, programs, technology assets management and best practice architecture design. Primary customers include Commercial, Medical, Marketing, Value & Access and Patient Services business organizations, among 30+ countries in global Biogen office and field locations.

About this role

This role is accountable for end-to-end systems and integration architecture as well as IT system ownership and release management of selected applications. This role acts as a primary technical subject matter expert for specified systems, oversees technical resources and deliverables, and provides strategic input to technology roadmaps and future architecture enhancements. Systems in scope handle Biogen Transparency Reporting: HCP and HCO spend aggregation, improving data validation, national and state transparency reporting.

What you’ll do

Analyzing: Assess and document system composition and condition, identify stakeholders and expectations for operations, ongoing change management and new and current projects and issues.

Defining: Define and develop system target architecture, the roadmap and transition architectures, including relevant performance measures, addressing current issues and challenges, plans for changes and opportunities for improvement.

Engaging: Proactively socialize the system roadmap with business functions using the system – and with other system owners across IT. Collect feedback for improvement, ensure alignment and coordination, and avoid redundancy or conflicting demands.

Operating: Execute on the system roadmap, actively manage the system as a set of interconnected assets and manage cross-system dependencies. Assist in Incident Management and Problem Management Present financial show back and planning associated with the roadmaps.

Evaluating: Assess the health and operational performance of the system against established metrics. Achieve and improve operational service metrics and/or targets associated with systems.

Improving: Identify and realize opportunities to increase the value of the system by extending cost effective use and/or reducing platform costs through rationalization, consolidation, streamlining, and price negotiation.

Actively Driving: Actively drive projects and ensure alignment on all project details: objectives, scope, approach, deliverables, financials, schedule, dependencies and risks. Lead onshore and offshore delivery teams.

Engaging Stakeholders: Proactively manage IT and business stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, and Steering Committees to ensure accountability and drive value.

Managing Risks/Tradeoffs: Articulate key risks, dependencies, and scope tradeoffs within and across functions – and effectively mitigate risks/tradeoffs by identifying and driving changes to approach, timeline, budget, or scope.

Communicating: Clearly communicate architecture decisions, drivers and tradeoffs. project status, schedule, risks, issues, and changes/resolutions – keeping all stakeholders involved and informed on a regular basis.

Upholding Processes: Follow and uphold required and expected processes – including regulatory compliance standards – and provide input to improve processes.

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business Management, or a directly related field plus 8 (eight) years of relevant experience in systems development with at least five (5) years of experience as a Solution Architect/Lead Developer, or equivalent experience in a technical leadership role

Experience Requirements

• Application design, architecture, and development involving a broad range of corporate systems in a medium to large size company, with projects that include:
• Complex data integration projects with CRM platforms, such as Service Cloud, Veeva, or Siebel
• Relational databases design and development projects (ideally Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL)
• Designing and developing ETL workloads and data pipelines moving large volumes of data between systems (ideally using Informatica PowerCenter / Informatica Integration Cloud Services).
• Applying various enterprise integration patterns
• Building Business Intelligence reports, dashboards and extracts using one of the leading BI platforms
• Strong understanding of waterfall and agile SDLC methodologies
• Leading onsite and offshore delivery teams.
• Understanding of foundational architectural concepts and enterprise integration patterns.
• Information security, governance and privacy topics
• Experience with Oracle Apex will be a plus.
• Experience in life sciences company or consulting for life science industry, especially in commercial, medical and transparency reporting domains will be a plus.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical capabilities with ability to understand commercial business information, logically structure them into IT elements that build practical solutions, identify root causes of issues, conduct troubleshooting, and perform impact analysis.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.

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