Information/Data Architect

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, TextBlob

Job Description

Possible locations: Macclesfield, UK; Gaithersburg, MD, USA; Wilmington, DE, USA; Gothenburg, Sweden

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Information Architect/Data Architect? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Enterprise Data & AI services in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

BUSINESS AREA

We lead AstraZeneca’s transformation, fusing our digital and data capabilities with backing from the business to make it happen. By partnering across the business, we’re leveraging our leading technologies and exploring data to make improved decisions and help the business to reach the right outcomes, quicker. We challenge, innovate and break away from the norm to find bold new ways of approaching the everyday. A place to realize the true impact data and digital can make.

Enterprise Data & AI Services (ED&AIS) is a new central IT function accountable for enterprise strategy and standards in Data and AI engineering, enabling services, information data architecture as well as the delivery of data provisioning services and AI product delivery for the enterprise. The organization works closely with Data & AI delivery teams across Customer Facing IT (CFIT) teams and data governance teams from LoB Data offices, supporting the build of the AstraZeneca Data Mesh products and analytical solutions.

• It identifies enabling, horizontal services required across the estate and ensures effective easy to use services such as Cataloguing, Privacy, Unification, Profiling, Data Quality, Engineering Orchestration, AI Ops, Model Registries etc
• It ensures, through Information Architecture, that the resultant data products are FAIR by design enabling effective re-use.
• It supports functional data provision and data product delivery to LoB / CFIT teams to functional and global standards and policies ensuring compliant and secure data assets (working with LoB Data Offices).
• It leads the delivery of advanced AI products in NLP, Computer Vision, Recommendation Engines and Predictive Modelling, supporting CFIT/LoB teams in tech solution selection, product build and the run of business critical AI solutions
• It leads the strategy of and innovation in Data & AI technology for the enterprise, working closely with Enterprise Architecture and Tech Innovation teams

What you’ll do

The Information Architect has responsibility to deliver the efficient design of data and information architectures to support business objectives. A key component of delivery will be to ensure that AstraZeneca data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) across our systems, ready for either direct use by consumers or AI machines. In the IA team we partner with engineering, business data governance and data analysis as well as Enterprise architecture functions to deliver business value. This involves an end to end platform comprising of integrated data services (ingest, catalogue, unify, privacy, access etc) enabling teams to self-serve in the preparation of new, and consumption of existing, data assets in line with Operations data standards, polices and operating procedures (governed by the Data Office and Information Architecture).

Each member of the team will be aligned within Operations function & aligned to a domain(e.g. Plan, Make, Deliver) and will support the delivery of the D&A portfolio through the provision of coordinated Information Architecture services and design. You will be a key part of the Information Architecture Review Board, ensuring that all Information Architectures are reviewed and are aligned and where required represent IA in business data governance forums.

Essential for the role

• The role holder will possess a blend of data architecture, analysis, and engineering skills
• Experience of enterprise data modelling for Supply Chain or Manufacturing.
• Experience building conformed dimensions (Conceptual & Logical) and understand the principles of reusable components and one version of the truth.
• Experience in the use of metadata standards
• Experience in the use of Master Data road mapping and strategy
• Bachelor Degree in related field

Desirable for the role

• Understanding of FAIR data management principles
• Can provide practical examples of designing and documenting data engineering blueprints that have been pragmatically and actually implemented
• Experience of running a data architecture governance function

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.