Job Description
Our company is an innovative, global healthcare leader that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. We continue to focus our research on conditions that affect millions of people around the world - diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer - while expanding our strengths in areas like vaccines and biologics.
Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.
We are seeking an energetic, collaborative and self-driven professional to join the Digital Supply Chain value team to play an active role in transformation journey to become the leading digital supply chain organization that leverages data, technology and processes to deliver end to end solutions enabling enterprise-wide collaboration, customer satisfaction, and seamless orchestration.
What You Will Do
The Value Team Architect works closely with Product Line Leads, Product Managers and all squad members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses/incorporates future architectural changes and designs.
Responsibilities
In collaboration with the Value Team Lead, Product Line Leads, Product Managers and Lead Engineers you will work on the following
- Understand
- supply chain domain business use cases, opportunities and challenges
- current industry technology trends and introduce best practices to Value Team
- Create
- architecture deliverables and artifacts relevant for accountable architecture domain(s)
- Drive
- the technology strategy for the Value Team that aligns with the business needs and enterprise architecture strategy
- the notion of reusable architecture assets & standards such as current-state business/technology capability maps as well as future state planning roadmaps for the Value Team.
- Tech Center strategy for Digital Supply Chain organization by boosting collaboration within Singapore and across all locations in Technology Center network
- Our workforce pipeline in Value Team by leveraging company programs to onboard, mentor and upskill the leaders of the future in Technology Centers
- Partner with
- product teams to use agile, value-centric, business outcomes-oriented, and total cost of ownership-based principles to guide decision making
- product line solution architects to develop a documented business, solution, information, and data architecture for supply chain
- architecture community and leaders across the Value and Enabling Teams in the division focusing on data and analytics, manufacturing and quality systems
- Enterprise Architecture team to drive the adoption of company architecture standards and blueprints
- Manage
- Architecture Governance within the Value Team
- Train and mentor
- technical delivery teams to understand, embrace, and successfully implement solutions following the architecture strategy
What You Must Have
Education
- B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in a scientific or technical discipline (such as computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, etc.)
Required Experience And Skills
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in the pharmaceutical/life sciences or similar industry, with demonstrated hands-on experience in solution architecture and information system designs
- 10+ years of experience in leading development squads/ teams in global environment
- Strong understanding of enterprise, solution and information architecture principles
- Domain knowledge of technology for supply chain management including data and analytics platforms, ERP solutions, supply chain planning, warehousing, distribution and logistics
- Experience in working closely with a range of business lines to identify business needs and opportunities
- Experience with Agile ways of working, leading or working as part of scrum teams
- Experience as a change agent of transformation to product model organization/ operating model
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish productive working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
- Ability to perform under broad direction taking initiative and full responsibility for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives
Preferred Experience And Skills
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation
- Knowledge of current cloud trends and offerings, and extensive hands-on experience and strong expertise in cloud engineering
- Certifications in AWS and/or modern data technologies
Who We Are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What We Look For
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join usand start making your impact today.
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Employee Status
Regular
Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid
Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Asset Management, Benefits Management, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs
Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
12/6/2024
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Requisition ID R323100
