Description

The Associate Director, Solution Architect Marketing & Sales (M&S) assumes leadership role within IT in all areas relating to application architecture requirements, establishment, future direction and ongoing support. Designs data integration solutions including process for deployment of solutions into the development, QA and production environments. Provides knowledge to extended team on how to integrate various data sources and architect system implementations. Is the strategic critical success factor for IT in the role of providing timely, agile and accurate information to our customers and business partners.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

This role has a flexible hybrid onsite work schedule 2-3 days per week in our Ridgefield, CT location dependent on business needs and should be located in proximity to this location.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud computing and event-driven architectures with high availability at global scale

• Establish best practices/policies for the utilization of SaaS and (PaaS) products

• Design and/or enhance multi-tenant architecture utilizing virtual resources that can be consumed and scaled as needed

• Lead and/or manage a diverse team of Business and IT professionals in delivering results

• Collaborate and partner with various organizational levels to ensure timely delivery of technology driven business solutions aligned with company strategies, defined business priorities, and regulatory mandates

• Must adhere to all compliance standards

1. Business Consultancy : Adopts a leadership role in influencing IS-related business decisions through a consistent and direct engagement of clients at all levels in multiple business domains. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of multiple business domains. Communicates with clients in business terms. Independently proposes new and improved business processes, championing innovation where possible.

2. Project Management : Independently plans, organizes and oversees resources to achieve the goals and objectives of multiple small projects or a large project.

3. Domain Architecture : Based on a thorough understanding of all processes within a business domain, analyzes, defines and documents the relationship of all systems and services that support this domain. Governs this single-domain IS Landscape. Identifies and with supervision, proposes improvements to individual IS systems or services, to business or IS processes supported. With supervision, influences business clients and IS colleagues on Application Landscape decisions that drive the implementation of the proposed domain improvements.

4. Program Management : Leads small Programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree from an accredited institution with four-plus (4+) years IT experience. In lieu of a degree, ten-plus (10+) years of relevant IT experience required.

• Multiple years of experience in an IT technical role with a broad IT mind-set and knowledge across application area and business domain (Marketing, Sales, Medical Affairs)

• Strong hands-on experience of capabilities and direction of technology – big data management, cloud computing, AI frameworks & BI platforms, data governance, IoT, container, API integration, CI/CD, AWS and Azure.

• Experience with information, process and technology modeling and architecture methodology frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, UML)

• Organizational skills, managing many diverse initiatives with different deadlines and priorities on both strategic and tactical levels.

• Ability to take major ownership in orchestrating workshops and facilitating stakeholder interactive sessions.

• Must be a strong strategic thinker and motivator and understands what delivers true value to the business.

• Excellent communication skills in English

Eligibility Requirements :

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.

• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).

• Must be 18 years of age or older.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to a person’s actual or perceived race, including natural hairstyles, hair texture and protective hairstyles; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; citizenship status, marital status; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation, mental, physical or intellectual disability, veteran status; pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law.