Senior Specialist, Business Architecture Digital Manufacturing

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Specialist Business Architecture to join our Digital Manufacturing Operations this role you will lead the design and delivery of digital shop floor and information technology solutions and own the sites digital integration programme at a modern biotech facility.

You will work closely with operations quality engineering digital product teams and enterprise information technology teams to deliver secure compliant and value-focused digital capabilities that improve reliability throughput and decision-making.

Bring energy knowledge innovation to carry out the following:

• Be an active inspiring member of a high-performing team with a strong drive to learn improve and develop.
• Lead the site shop floor digital integration program:
  • Identify opportunities with business owners.
  • Shape and communicate business cases.
  • Provide architecture and delivery leadership from concept to go-live.
• Own and manage the integration roadmap within the site digital plan including value risk and dependency tracking and act as the site point of contact for manufacturing product teams.
• Lead the implementation and lifecycle management of information technology solutions for the shop floor and other business areas:
  • Define user requirements.
  • Support system selection and deployment.
  • Oversee validation testing and documentation ensuring systems remain validated and technically current.
• Provide ongoing support for shop floor and information technology systems including safe system changes and investigations in close collaboration with enterprise platform and global infrastructure teams.
• Ensure technologies support data analytics; help data scientists and engineers interpret system data; and develop analytics and visualizations for key stakeholders including site standards.
• Support departments in understanding generative artificial intelligence and in developing and implementing business cases for its use.
• Participate actively in site operational meetings and help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovative digital solutions to business challenges.

What skills you will need:

In order to excel in this role you will more than likely have:

• Bachelors degree (required) or Masters degree (preferred) in a relevant discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Proven decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with information technology system implementation and validation using a system development life cycle approach.

• You are likely to have experience in several of the following:
  • Biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical manufacturing and shop floor digital integration.
  • Business continuity risk awareness and business value analysis.
  • Network and server infrastructure system virtualization and automation systems.
  • Data historian reporting and manufacturing execution systems.
  • Generative artificial intelligence concepts and use cases.
  • Collaboration and reporting tools (for example document management and business intelligence tools such as Power BI).
  • Continuous improvement approaches (for example Six Sigma or similar).
  • Working with stakeholders at all levels and clearly explaining complex technical topics.

We keep the patient at the very heart of all that we do and strive to find solutions and treatments for some of the worlds most challenging healthcare needs.

As an equal opportunity employer we are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse talented and committed people together. Please dont hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition Advisor assigned to this role should you need any support during our recruitment process.

We are committed to flexible working where possible and this is why our Company has introduced a new hybrid working model for office-based colleagues around the world.

Please feel free to speak to us about what flexibility means to you during your application.

So if you are ready to:

Invent solutions to meet unmet healthcare needs please apply today.

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