Associate Director, Enterprise Architect, Cloud
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1407
Who we are
Thanks to a strategic focus on Cloud Migration, Digital Transformation, Cloud Native Computing, we have a great opportunity for an Associate Director, Enterprise Architect, Cloud.
Job location can be: Sofia (Bulgaria) or Zagreb (Croatia)
The opportunity
The main role of the Enterprise Architect is to provide leadership, direction, and supervision of the architectural aspects of Teva’s Enterprise Architecture Road map implementation. In addition, the Enterprise Architect will lead and participate in digital innovation activities.
The Cloud Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing cost efficient, scalable and reliable cloud architectures to support the company’s cloud migration strategy.
To ensure smooth migration from on-prem data centers. Candidates are expected to be knowledgeable across a wide range of technologies.
You will be part of Teva Global IT Architecture and Technology team, reporting directly to Dir. Enterprise Architect. Through this role, you will be able to impact Teva IT journey and support the company strategy. This role is highly visible, and you will be working with both IT leadership, IT delivery teams and business stakeholders.
This is an opportunity for a technology expert who has an eye for detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, who is willing to work collaboratively, and guide others as required. You will need to be proactive, resourceful, and able to work under pressure to meet challenging deadlines.
How you’ll spend your day
As an Associate Director, Enterprise Architect, Cloud you will be responsible for discovering and architecting IT platforms and solutions. Your responsibilities include the following:
• Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Assess current architecture (Cloud, On-Prem datacenters) and design new cloud architectures that meet the requirements and Teva’s strategy. Experience with designing solutions ranging from single system/landscape to large-scale data center migrations.
• Conduct regular assessments of cloud infrastructure and applications to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
• Lead efforts to transition from on-prem legacy architectures to cost effective cloud solutions, including reference architectures, guardrails, patterns.
• Communicate complex technical architectures and strategies to senior leadership and peers, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives.
• Lead the process of introducing new applications and technologies into the portfolio together with the ITMUs.
• Maintain major systems and technologies roadmaps. Plan with the ITMUs the implementation of this roadmap – in specific: major upgrades, technology changes and systems decommissioning.
• Ensure architecture meets security and compliance requirements for data privacy, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Implement within the architecture, best practices including cost optimization, scalability, and performance.
• Responsible for identifying trends, disruptive applications and technologies that can substantially impact the ITMUs and business capabilities.
• Work closely with your architecture teammates, sharing information, collaborating, and supporting other architecture activities.
• Work closely with delivery teams such as: cloud engineering, infrastructure teams, security as well as other IT professionals to ensure that your solutions meet the requirements and can be integrated into existing IT landscape.
• Engage and support the ITMUs in performing Proof of Concepts of new applications and technologies.
• Keep up to date with new technologies and driving the evaluation and assessment of those technologies with various delivery units.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and IT leaders to identify opportunities for digital, cloud-based solutions that can drive business growth and innovation.
• Lead and participate in digital innovation activities that may transform the way Teva works.
Your experience and qualifications
• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in a Computer Sciences or equivalent is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of Cloud architecture experience of Enterprise level platforms and projects in global companies.
• Proven knowledge and experience in the following domains: large-scale infrastructure deployments, hyperscalers (at least Azure and AWS), migration to cloud, cloud adoptions frameworks, virtualization (VMWare/Nutanix etc), data centers, network concepts (VPN, ExpressRoute etc) and backup solutions.
• Previous experience in designing the architecture of large platforms on public clouds (Azure/AWS/GCP) as well as modern and Cloud Native technologies
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements and map to IT capabilities and platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze systems requirements and design IT solutions, choosing the best fit for the architecture.
• A sustained record of success delivering complex IT Architecture and technology solutions to a diverse and global clientele.
• Able to drive innovation and continuous improvements for platforms and processes.
• Strong IT vendor management skills.
• Experience in working in a matrix managed organization (min 5 years)
• Up to date knowledge and experience with cyber threats and how to build architectures to mitigate cyber risks- advantage.
• TOGAF certificates – advantage.
• Experience working in a Pharma IT landscapes (GxP and non-GxP) – advantage.
• Project management capabilities
• Work in a dynamic environment with ever changing priorities.
• Stakeholder management – ensuring delivery and managing expectations.
• Planning and execution capabilities – seeing the process end to end.
• Good interpersonal skills, cordial and respectful.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, communication skills and team-based project experience.
• Able to engage and manage up, down and across the IT and business without formal authority.
• Able to develop and execute a vision for cloud based digital platforms and applications landscape.
• Fast and quick learner, with passion for technological innovations, able to self-educate and knowledge transfer.
• Team player – collaborating with others to achieve a greater goal.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Travel Requirements: As needed by the business requirements.
Make a difference with Teva Pharmaceuticals
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, send us your CV in English.
Please, kindly note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
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