Santen is a specialized life sciences company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on ophthalmology. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries, we are dedicated to delivering innovative treatments and digital solutions for eye health and addressing vision-related social issues for people around the world. 

Job's Mission

The main purpose is to improve, design and architect new and changed solutions to the Santen overall IT environment. You strive to be a technology architect with strong focus on delivering quantifiable business value by designing solutions to protect, optimize, and harmonize Santen Cloud and Infrastructure solutions/systems. You will act as a technology champion, a project manager and works openly and across regions to gather feedback to optimize Santen services. Furthermore, you drive, in line with IT Infrastructure road-map, and work closely with the Infrastructure global leads for Cloud, Connectivity and Workplace systems to give Santen a competitive advantage. 

Technologies focused on in this role will be Azure Cloud platform and Azure solutions, Microsoft 365 security solutions, MS Defender suite, Backup & Restore, Disaster recovery, Azure virtual WAN, SD WAN networking etc. Role holder will as well be involved in architecture and solutions on Santen AWS platform hence experience is this public Cloud domain is preferred. 

*** Applicants from all EMEA are welcome to apply to this position***
 

You will act in line with and is comfortable with the following tasks and activities:

• Considers and advises solutions from a global perspective, works with an international mindset and incorporates diversity in people and culture into his/her practice.
• Assess the business value Cloud and IT Infrastructure and solutions delivery and explains clearly how it benefits Santen in business language.
• Performs assessments, reviews and creates plans for improving Santen Cloud and Infrastructure solutions.
• Creates designs and architecture based on best practice and in line with Santen Enterprise Architecture processes.
• Drives external partners and collaborates with Santen internal teams to generate requirement specifications in the Cloud and Connectivity domain.
• Manages projects, end to end, to design, resource and implement new solutions.
• Developing business cases or opportunity studies when needed, establishing project plans aligned with Santen business domains expectations.
• Reports monthly to manager about KPIs, achievements, risks and challenges within area of responsibilities.
• Adheres to GxP guidelines and follows Santen SDLC procedures/practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Sciences, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Information Systems Infrastructure, Infra Security, Networking, Workplace tools and Azure Cloud solutions.
• Minimum 5 years of Cloud (Azure/General IT Infrastructure) transformation incl complex projects management preferably from a multi continental (global) perspective.
• Excellent track records of delivering results.
• Experience of International way for working, multi-culture organizations, global collaboration, effective communication and leveraging team diversity as a strength is required.
• Practical project management skills applied to infrastructure projects with roll-out activities based on knowledge and experience.
• Documentation and presentation skills that are convincing for management
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills in English.

Grow your career at Santen

A career at Santen is an opportunity to make a difference. Through our long-term vision outlined in Santen 2030, we are committed to be a Social Innovator - addressing the social and economic needs of people with visual impairments. We have team members around the world using their diverse talents to unlock new modalities and drive innovations for patient outcomes, education and treatment. At Santen, we believe in empowering all our team members with flexible ways of working and a highly inclusive work environment.

The Santen Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to building diverse teams and ensuring a safe and inclusive physical and virtual workplace for every one of our team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs, role requirements and individual qualifications regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/ expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.