Lead Solution Architect - Capital Projects
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Job description
Provide end-to-end Digital & Technology solution architecture leadership for the Global Supply Chain capital projects portfolio, with primary focus on the Upper Merion Flex Factory. Shape architecture from concept and feasibility through design, delivery and operational handover, ensuring capital investments deliver secure, resilient, compliant, composable and future-ready manufacturing capabilities. Act as the architecture design authority across manufacturing, engineering, quality, automation, data, cloud, cybersecurity and enterprise platforms. Align project teams, GSC Digital & Technology, enterprise functions and external partners around an integrated architecture that supports immediate programme outcomes while creating reusable and scalable capabilities for the wider manufacturing network., * Own end-to-end solution architecture for the capital projects portfolio, including the Flex Factory
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Translate business, engineering and site requirements into coherent current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures.
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Define integrated designs across manufacturing, engineering, quality, automation, data, cloud and enterprise platforms.
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Apply composable architecture principles to promote reuse, interoperability and avoidance of siloed or duplicative technology.
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Act as architecture design authority at programme stage gates and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.
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Manage cross-site, cross-domain and supplier architecture dependencies, decisions and risks.
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Develop solution options and provide cost, value, risk and feasibility input to investment decisions.
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Identify architecture exceptions and escalate material decisions through the appropriate GSC architecture governance forums.
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Maintain architecture artefacts, roadmaps and decision records for the capital portfolio.
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Represent GSC Architecture with programme leaders, Engineering, sites, suppliers and enterprise functions.
Requirements
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
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Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering,
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8+ years of experience in solving architecture, engineering technology, manufacturing technology or related disciplines.
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Experience leading architecture for large, complex capital programs or site transformations.
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Experience integrating manufacturing, automation, engineering, quality, cloud, data and enterprise platforms.
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Experience operating in a regulated environment and working with global, cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
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TOGAF or an equivalent architecture certification is preferred.
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Strong knowledge of solution architecture, manufacturing systems, operational technology, cloud technologies and systems integration.
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Working knowledge of cybersecurity, resilience, data architecture and regulated-system delivery.
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Ability to develop architecture options, articulate trade-offs and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
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Strong facilitation, communication, negotiation and supplier-management skills.
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Ability to work effectively across global teams, cultures, functions and sites.
GSK-LI
Skills API Management, Application Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Architectures, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data Architecture Development, Database Management Systems (DBMS), DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Network Architecture, Security Architecture Design, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software Engineering, System Integration, Technical Solution Architecture
About the company
GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines., Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people., Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
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