Director, EDO - Information Architecture Commercial IT
Core
Lead enterprise information and data architecture strategy, governance, and delivery for Commercial IT, aligning data models and flows with business capabilities.
Role type
Senior Information Architect (Commercial IT) (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-249060-director-edo-information-architecture-commercial-it-at-astrazeneca)
Builds
Enterprise data strategies, logical/physical/semantic data models, and information architecture blueprints for Commercial IT domains.
Domain
Pharmaceutical industry / Enterprise Data Architecture
Required skills
Enterprise data platform architecture, conceptual and logical data modelling, information and data regulatory governance, IT architectural patterns (FAIR, Data Mesh), data lifecycle management, data integration design, metadata design, master/reference data design.
Preferred skills
Senior data architect with implementation experience, cloud-based containerization strategies, Agile data definition scrums, metadata cataloguing and EA tools, Data Mesh approaches, matrix-based stakeholder management, Pharmaceutical industry experience.
Technologies
Data Mesh, FAIR data principles, cloud containerization, metadata cataloguing tools, data modelling tools, EA tools
Responsibilities
Lead definition and delivery of strategic and tactical architectural thinking across information and data architectures; Operate within Enterprise Data Architecture Framework defining and managing projects against standards and blueprints; Develop strategy and best practice for Information Architecture in partnership with business functions; Act as architecture evangelist shaping roadmaps and ensuring alignment; Drive Architectural Governance including developing Architectural Decisions and progressing work through forums; Deliver and manage Information Architecture including conceptual and logical models for operational, master and data products; Collaborate with business leaders to evolve IA designs supporting business strategy; Own IA designs for Business Capability areas and take accountability for IA across projects; Assure IT change projects are aligned to IA by delivering blueprint artefacts; Partner with Commercial Data Office to embed data governance processes; Select architectures and patterns to support reporting, analytics, data science, and digital use cases; Provide strategic and tactical data architecture planning and execution support; Contribute coherent architectural thinking in support of data strategies; Support development of Data Integration architecture; Secure approval for IA artefacts and enforce standard enterprise data element names.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership