Principal Solution Architect

Are you prepared to embark on a role that allows you to shape our digital journey from a holistic perspective? As a Principal Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in determining and architecting solutions that empower business capabilities, aligning with AstraZeneca's IT strategy, roadmap, principles, and standards. 

Location: Södertälje, Sweden - Our Largest Manufacturing Site

Accountabilities

As the Principal Solution Architect for IGNITE: Operations IT Architecture, you will be responsible for the solution architecture and design across AstraZeneca’s Quality and Development portfolio.You will analyse, conceptualise, design and govern across AstraZeneca’s strategic IT landscape to support business projects. Collaborating closely with other Architects in the Development domain and technology colleagues, you will be at the forefront of driving digital transformation within our operations business. This role demands an experienced individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment as part of a distributed team.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Extensive experience in implementing and maintaining business solution architectures under formal frameworks

• Proven ability to influence across business and IT, manage third-party supplier relationships, and ensure compliance within a secure environment

• Develop Digital Twins and lead change by challenging approaches and ideas

• Experience with large scale solution Justification phase work – product evaluation, business case formulation

• Experience directing multi-functional teams

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrated initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working

• People Development experience

• Laboratory platforms and domain related technologies such as: Chromatography Data Systems, Laboratory Information Systems, Lab Execution Systems, Data Historian, Relational Databases and Big Data technologies, AI/ML, data streaming, data modelling, real-time inference

• Architecture certifications, e.g. TOGAF

• Cyber security experience 

• Understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, IT trends and of competitor activity
  

Why AstraZeneca?

As Architects at AstraZeneca, we connect the dots across the business to improve the agility and functionality of our processes to accelerate AstraZeneca to the next level. We are always proactively hunting for new insights and problem-solving to identify better ways of doing things. We understand the data, managing and exploring it to ensure that patients and employees get genuine benefits from our Technology ecosystem. We simplify and transform our data, ensuring it's ready to be exploited across the business, ready for analytics, machine learning and AI. This is the place to take on big challenges. There's so much potential to influence and impact. As we champion integration and improve the agility of our processes, we're accelerating the business forward, for good.