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 Solution Architect, you will leverage in-depth expertise in business platforms, capabilities, and processes to design, implement and innovate solutions to optimize the Astellas technology architecture landscape. The role covers Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities for the Research and Development functions and is pivotal to the Astellas Digital Strategy.
This is a senior level role, and your responsibility includes developing a domain architecture vision and roadmap, leading collaboration with stakeholders, providing technology recommendations, creating solution prototypes, assisting delivery leads in estimating costs, resources, and timelines, and remaining involved throughout the lifecycle. You will be at the forefront of our AI strategy and will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
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 the 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.
- 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.
- Performance Optimization: Ensure application solutions are optimized for performance and user experience. Conduct system performance analysis and recommend improvements.
- Compliance and Security: Ensure application architectures comply with relevant regulations and standards. Incorporate security measures into the design to protect against threats and vulnerabilities.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Substantial years of demonstrated relevant experience in developing, integrating and architecting AI solutions covering the full spectrum of AI (Agentic, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, GenAI).
- Technical Proficiency: Background in software development with expertise in multiple 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 and design patterns, microservices, API design, and development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps).
- Demonstrable experience implementing Cloud agnostic AIOps platforms and architectures (Databricks, Valohai) that foster transparency and observability of AI models and systems.
- Understanding of the EU AI Act and similar legislation, and the implications for solution assessment / selection.
- Communication and Leadership: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and lead development teams. Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- 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 Qualifications:
- Experience in the pharma Research and Development domains, with a focus on AI solutions
- Agile Champion: Adherence to DevOps principles and a proven track record with CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery
- Experience in Data Mesh strategy implementation would be useful.
- Direct experience implementing/consulting on known Life Sciences technologies.
Education:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field or equivalent.
Additional information:
- This is a permanent role based in our Global Capability Centre in Warsaw, Poland and hybrid working with the expectation for some office presence. Flexibility may be required in line with business need. Candidates must be located within a commutable distance of the office.
Astellas’ Global Capability Centres – Overview
Astellas’ Global Capability Centre’s (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.
The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.
Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company’s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.
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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