Job Description

Our company is a global leader in healthcare, with a diverse portfolio that includes prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. For over 130 years, we have bridged the gap between potential and achievement through a culture of innovation and integrity. Our mission to reach new milestones in global healthcare continues to inspire our team and drive our success.

Our Information Technology organization partners closely with teams across the business to serve patients and customers worldwide. This high-energy team comprises dynamic, forward-thinking individuals committed to accelerating our impact on global healthcare through the strategic use of information and technology. A core priority is the effective utilization of data as a key strategic asset to power insight-driven decision-making.

The Visual Analytics team, part of the Consumption & Insights Generation organization within the Central Data & Analytics function in the Chief Technology Office, is responsible for creating a unified analytics experience. We empower users to tap into data and interactive analytics across the enterprise, supporting a range of functions from scientific research to commercial operations.

In this role, as the Visual Analytics Technical Architect, you will develop and design scalable, high-performance architecture solutions for enterprise analytics platforms.

Whether your background is in software, infrastructure architecture, or engineering, or you come from a modern data analytics environment, you’ll bring expertise in designing analytics solutions. You’ll collaborate with technology vendors, delivery partners, internal stakeholders, and support resources to apply both emerging and established technologies that enhance our enterprise analytics strategy.
 

Primary job responsibilities include:

Lead the architecting, designing and planning activities related to Visual Analytics products.

Contribute to Visual Analytics technology roadmap and future state capabilities.

Collaborate with geographically distributed teams in support of product architecture activities

As a senior subject matter expert help drive the definition of best practices, platform governance and platform delivery guidelines.

Write technical documentation including, but not limited to configuration artifacts, infrastructure/technical diagrams, etc.

Maintain current industry knowledge of Visual Analytics best practices and procedures.

Be an integral employee to mentor junior colleagues to help them grow skills and capabilities

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

We are seeking professionals with the following qualifications, skills and experience:

Education Minimum Requirement: 

BSc in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Required Experience and Skills:

Demonstrated platform engineering/ technical architect area using Agile methologies.

Experience in architecting, building and supporting large scale visual analytics platforms and solutions using modern cloud technologies and automation principles.

Experience in software and architecture design patterns.

Experience in AWS or Azure deployments.

Experience in gathering user requirements and feedback to continually improve the user experience and drive adoption of visual analytics solutions would be valuable

Given the sensitive nature of data in the pharmaceutical industry, expertise in data security, privacy regulations, and implementing secure data access controls

Skills and experience related to data management, ETL, and business intelligence data modeling

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders.

Familiarity with Release Management, Problem and Incident Management, Software Development Life Cycle best practices and project methodologies

Confident individual who is organized, able to coordinate teams and activities in a complex international environment.

Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information verbally and in writing.

Desired Experience and Skills:

Familiarity with Spotfire, Qlik Sense, Power BI or other analytics tools

Familiarity with machine learning and AI concepts and their integration with analytics platforms

Cross-product communication/integration experience

Agile and/or Product Management Certifications.

Prior experience in Enterprise SaaS product management with successful traction in development, launch and growth of products.

Certifications in one or more cloud technologies

Prior experience in developing and launching multi-tenant platforms that cater to technical user base

Previous experience in Life sciences and Pharma domain.

What we offer:

Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment 

Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally. 

Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases) 

Pension and health insurance contributions 

Internal reward system plus referral program 

5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution. 

Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card 

Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programs.

Up-to-date laptop and iPhone 

Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner 

Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more. 

 
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Requisition ID:R320088