Solution Architect
About Astellas:
At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.
We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.
We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.
Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their caregivers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.
Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.
The Opportunity:
As a Solution Architect, you will leverage in-depth expertise in business applications, platforms, capabilities and processes to design, implement and innovate solutions to optimize the Astellas technology architecture landscape.
You will be responsible for developing a domain architecture visions and roadmaps, leading collaboration with stakeholders, analysing functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring consistency design standards, providing technology recommendations, creating solution prototypes, and managing epic story constraints like cost, quality, scope, and resources, assisting delivery leads in estimating costs, resources, and timelines, and remaining involved throughout the epics lifecycle.
Hybrid Working:
At Astellas we recognise the importance of balancing your work and home life, so we offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues in person at the office alongside the flexibility to work from home; optimising the most productive work environment for you to succeed and deliver.
Key Activities for this role:
- Architecture Vision and Roadmap: Lead and own a domain strategic blueprint to ensure solutions are based on strategic integrated capabilities with a forward view of maturity aligned to business objectives
- Solution Design and Development: Design comprehensive application solutions that address business needs and challenges. This involves creating architectural designs that are scalable, secure, maintainable.
- Technology Selection: Evaluate and select technologies and platforms for capability development initiatives, considering factors such as performance, scalability, security, and integration capabilities.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business analysts, project managers, and Digital teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Ensure that the proposed solutions align with the organization's strategic goals and technology standards.
- Initiatives & CI/CD Oversight: Provide technical leadership throughout the development life cycle, from initial concept through to implementation and support. Guide development teams to ensure adherence to architectural designs and best practices.
- Integration Architecture: Design and oversee the integration of new applications with existing systems and software, ensuring seamless operation and data consistency across the enterprise.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Substantial years of demonstrated relevant experience in developing, integrating and architecting digital and AI solutions in the pharmaceutical / life sciences sector.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong background in software development with expertise in programming languages (e.g., Java, .NET, Python), databases/data lakes, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Architectural Knowledge: Deep understanding of agile architectural principles, frameworks and design patterns, microservices, API design, and development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps).
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex business processes and associated datasets and create optimal technology solutions. Strong problem-solving skills to address challenges during the project lifecycle.
- Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying current with emerging technologies, programming languages, and industry best practices.
- Certifications in specific technologies, architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), Agile delivery methodologies (e.g., SAFe) can be beneficial.
Preferred Qualification:
- Demonstrable experience implementing Cloud agnostic data and AIOps platforms and architectures (Databricks, Snowflake) that foster transparency and observability of AI models and systems.
- Experience in leading life sciences platforms such as Veeva, and in enterprise platforms such as Adobe, SAP, M365 and ServiceNow.
- Experience in Data Mesh strategy implementation would be useful.
- Direct experience implementing/consulting on known Life Sciences technologies.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, e.g., Computer Science, Data Science.or equivalent.
Additional information:
- This is a permanent role based in Poland and offer hybrid working environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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