Description:
The Lead Architect will specialize in Integration and Data Architecture and is required to work on a B2B integration initiative to underpin a major strategic alliance.
Additional Responsibilities:
• Define an end-to-end B2B solution at a non-functional level, covering all IT delivery streams, including internal business applications, data warehousing and B2B data exchange streams.
• Liaise with the external/client architecture and technical to agree the standards and architecture of the B2B interface.
• Communicate and negotiate the solution, ensure buy-in, and ensure IT delivery is in line with the solution.
• Understand the functional requirements at a high-level, and ensure the solution is functionally fit-for-purpose.
• Define Data/Integration Architecture best practice for data delivery teams, and architectural principles to govern delivery.
• Liaise regularly with multiple IT delivery teams, and drive adherence to best practice, and to the defined solution.
• Ensure technical, inter-team design and development processes are aligned to deliver efficiently.
• Ensure the solution is scalable, sustainable and re-usable.
• Ensure value-for-money from an architecture perspective on IT budget.
• Undertake other reasonably related duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Experience and Qualification
The candidate should have strong conceptual, best practice and implementation/delivery foundations in the following areas:
• Integration Architecture for batch and message based paradigms, specifically in a B2B context
• Data Architecture and Standardization
• Logical and Physical Data Modelling approaches and tools
• XML and XSD Schema design
• ETL and Data Warehousing
Experience in the following areas would be advantageous:
• Data Quality and Master Data Management
• Integration Transmission Paradigms, Patterns and Protocols
• FTP, HTTP & Web Services (and secure variants)
• General knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
• Dta integration in the clinical or pharmaceutical research domains
• associated Industry Standard models, including CDISC SDTM and BRIDG
• Dsigning solutions to meet associated regulatory compliance requirements in the pharmaceutical industry
General skills:
• Strong leadership skills, and an ability to negotiate and influence.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision with very good organizational skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical groups.
For further information please call Deirdre at 01 2784671 or e-mail your Cv to dbolger@thornshaw.com
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