Principal Enterprise Architect

Are you ready to inspire change and make a significant impact? At AstraZeneca, we are committed to delivering life-changing medicines while embedding sustainability into every aspect of our work. As a Principal Enterprise Architect in Sustainability, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our architecture decisions align with both business ambitions and IT strategy. This position is focused on strategic planning over a 1-5 year horizon, as well as immediate solution design projects. You will be instrumental in developing architecture standards, technology strategies, and roadmaps that support our mission to tackle the biggest sustainability challenges of our time., Provide enterprise design thinking and support across various domains of architecture including Business, Application, Integration, Cloud, Data & Analytics, and AI/ML.

• Lead efforts to ensure architecture decisions support business and IT strategy, ensuring compliance with AZ standards, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Participate in architecture assessments and reviews, contributing as a lead reviewing architect or domain expert.
• Document and share knowledge and standard methodologies to develop the architecture capability and practice.
• Be accountable for developing architecture standards, technology domain strategies, roadmaps, and blueprints.
• Define and update 'Transition' and 'To-Be' architectures applying AZ guiding principles.
• Support solution development efforts from portfolios, participate in IT initiatives, and provide guidance for better planning and decision-making.
• Maintain a view of current and future state architecture within defined focus areas.
• Develop architecture building blocks to support enterprise architecture implementation.
• Lead or actively participate in enterprise domain teams and working groups.

Relevant technical degree or equivalent

• Experience as an enterprise architect authoring and completing architecture roadmaps
• Experience producing application strategies/roadmaps for a global enterprise
• Experience with rationalisation, consolidation, and integration of technology across business domains
• Experience with large justification phase work - product evaluation, case formulation
• Experience developing and influencing business strategies with multi-functional team impact
• Experience developing and leading innovative solutions
• Proven experience of leading change and challenging approaches/ideas
• Experience developing and managing relationships with third-party suppliers
• Experience designing complex technology solutions aligned to enterprise roadmaps
• Experience in designing AI/ML solutions
• Strong networking skills with good internal/external links
• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language
• Awareness of marketplace developments and their relevance to AZ
• Ability to work well in diverse, multinational teams and influence others positively
• Open mind to learning new skills and capabilities
• Ability to follow agile and incremental architecture approaches
• Strong analytical skills on architecture trade-offs

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrate initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working
• People development experience
• Budget management experience
• Masters or equivalent experience and/or professional certification
• Experience in sustainability initiatives in large organizations
• Good understanding of industry technology trends regarding Agentic AI
• Good eye for business
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace, and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

AstraZeneca offers an environment where technical skills meet emotional intelligence. Join a team of highly qualified professionals who are persuasive communicators with empathy. We focus on the human impact of changes we drive, leading to complete solutions for the business. With the freedom to explore innovative technologies, there's never a dull moment as you create a significant footprint through continuous learning and growth.

Innovation requires breakthrough ideas, which only come from a diverse workforce, empowered to challenge conventional thinking. That's why we take inclusion and diversity seriously, it's fundamental to our success and the lives of our patients.

Here's what you can expect at AstraZeneca

Empowering inclusive leadership

We value, seek out and make the most of our differences to achieve our company goals. We contribute to a psychologically safe environment and make decisions transparently. Inclusive leadership is the expected way of working for everyone, at every career level

Fostering a culture where people can speak their mind

We speak our minds and make it safe for others to do so. We challenge behaviours that are not in line with our Values, and welcome alternative ideas and constructive feedback. We empower decision making at the appropriate level.

Building and sustaining a diverse leadership & talent pipeline

We seek to attract, retain and develop diverse talent that reflects and serves our communities and patients. We aim to understand our demographics and take action globally at each stage in the talent pipeline

Benefits & Perks

It takes a special commitment to keep pushing the boundaries. To keep believing. To never give up. As a global company, we give you the opportunity to excel on an international scale. Yet we believe in a down-to-earth approach where personal support and individual progression is concerned. With that in mind, we offer a whole range of company-wide benefits including flexible holiday and structured training, along with UK-specific perks that put your best interests front of mind.

On-site amenities

Each of our UK sites is energetic, collaborative and motivational with passionate and committed people working together to bring the best solutions to life. To keep that motivation high, we offer engaging on-site amenities including subsidised restaurants and collaborative spaces.

Perks

From annual bonuses and save schemes, we have a range of perks on offer to many of our colleagues in the UK. Our flexible benefits programme allows you to select your own benefits package based on your personal preferences and circumstances. So, from lifestyle benefits to comprehensive health, pension, insurance and financial plans, you choose the package for you - and if you change your mind the following year, you can adapt it.

Relocation

We offer competitive and successful relocation programmes to help recruit, retain and develop employees who will contribute to our growth and success. The availability of relocation assistance depends on the position and its location.

Awards & Accreditations

Forbes 2020 World's Best Employers FT Leader in Diversity Stonewall Diversity Champion Diversity Inc. Top Companies for LGBT Employees 2020 Diversity Inc. Top 50 Companies for Diversity 2021 Forbes 2021 The Best Employers for Women LinkedIn Most in Demand Employers Great Place to Work

AstraZeneca is one of the world's most exciting bio-pharmaceutical companies. From scientists to sales, lab techs to legal we're on a mission to turn ideas into life-changing medicines that improve patients' lives and benefit society. We're constantly moving forward as a company - agile and purposeful in our work. This ambition drives us to continue to transform to be a bio-pharmaceutical company that pioneers new methods and adapts and evolves to pursue discoveries like no one else. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. We're dedicated to being a great place to work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development. Are you ready to change lives for the better? To go beyond the normal to reach innovative goals? To push the boundaries? Whether you're a scientist, supply chain specialist or sales expert, when you join AstraZeneca you have the opportunity to shape your career with us and take on an industry-altering challenge, impacting millions of people every day. Our Culture We're scientists, collaborators, managers, leaders, analysts, doctors, entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers, doers, drivers, activists, creators and futurists. We're more than 65,000 minds across more than 100 countries and 6 continents. And we're all motivated by the same purpose. From biological scientists to marketing and financial experts, coming up with the right solutions for the right challenges to drive the next wave of science is a true cross-functional team effort. With five values to guide us, our unique perspectives and ideas always stay true to the goals we set for ourselves: * We follow the science * We put patients first * We play to win * We do the right thing * We are entrepreneurial Life-long learning is in our genes and we're committed to unlocking the potential in every one of our employees. That's why we continually invest in new ways for our people to use their natural curiosity and learn through everyday development experiences, empowering us all to uncover new ideas and thrive in a fast-changing world. Lifelong learning is not only how we help people grow throughout their career, it's how we continue to push the boundaries of science and deliver life-changing medicines to patients.