What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture position at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)?
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
The company's Digital Strategy is founded on the need for efficient, reusable, and user-friendly technology solutions. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is helping to lead this transformation.
Vision and Goal
The vision is to provide strategic technology decisions that link investments and achieved business outcomes. The goal is to offer strategic technology decision-making that connects investments and achieved business results.
Role Responsibilities
The role will have a focus on Research, Manufacturing and Clinical information domain spaces. It will also be responsible for facilitating the identification and adoption of standard reference data within these domain spaces.
Focusing Areas
- Data Governance
- Metadata, Master and Reference Data Management and Strategy
- Data Architecture
- Data Security
- Data Storage and Operations Document and Content
- Core Data and Analytics Capabilities
Key Skills
- A strong Information Management Background
- Skills in MDM, Data Quality, Information Governance, Data Modelling, Information Architecture and Metadata management
- Data Domain Experience in at least two of the Core Information Management Domains (Product, Research, Manufacturing)
- Experience in Enterprise Product Master is preferred
- Has expertise in leading-edge practices, techniques, and/or technologies within Data, analytics & information management
- Experience with the core capabilities and technologies necessary to build a strong information architecture practice
- Working knowledge of current Data and Information architecture frameworks
Preferred Skills
- Prior experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, including understanding of key business process in Research, Development, Operations, Manufacturing and Marketing areas
- Prior experience in Enterprise, Technical or Solution Architecture
- Knowledge/certification in TOGAF or other EA methodology frameworks
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
