Associate Director Enterprise Architecture, Data and AI

Who we are

As a global leader in generic medicines with a strong innovative portfolio, we are all in for better health.
Teva Pharmaceuticals has been developing and producing medicines for more than 120 years. Along with our established presence in generics, we have significant research and operations supporting our growing portfolio of innovative medicines and biopharmaceutical products.

Today, our portfolio of around 3,600 products is among the largest of any pharmaceutical company in the world. Nearly 200 million people in 60 countries benefit from one of Teva's quality medicines every day. We invest in research and development of innovative medicines, generic drugs and biosimilars, carrying on the legacy of more than a century of finding new ways to help patients improve their lives. This defines our values as a company and characterizes how we do business and approach medicine.
This defines how we do business and motivates thousands of Teva employees all over the world, every single day.
Learn more at www.tevapharm.com.

In Bulgaria Teva (known as Actavis until 2020) is the largest employer in the pharmaceutical industry with near 1700 employees in the two manufacturing plants (Dupnitsa and Troyan), sales and marketing organization and in a number of global corporate functions based in our country. We believe that each and every one of us should have access to quality medicines that help manage illness, fight infection or simply support overall health. Learn more at www.teva.bg.

Thanks to a strategic focus on Digital Transformation, Cloud Native Computing, Modern Data Strategy and AI, we have a great opportunity for an Associate Director Enterprise Architecture, Data and AI, based in Sofia.

The opportunity

The main role of the Enterprise Architect, Data and AI is to provide leadership, direction, and supervision of the architectural aspects of Teva’s Enterprise Architecture Road map implementation. In addition, the Enterprise Architect will lead and participate in digital innovation activities.
 
The Enterprise Architect, Data and AI is responsible for designing and implementing scalable data architectures and AI solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. This role ensures that data platforms and AI models are seamlessly integrated into the organization’s technology stack.

You will be part of Teva Global IT Architecture and Technology team, reporting directly to Dir. Enterprise Architect. Through this role, you will be able to impact Teva IT journey and support the company strategy. This role is highly visible, and you will be working with both IT leadership, IT delivery teams and business stakeholders.

This is an opportunity for a technology expert who has an eye for detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, who is willing to work collaboratively, and guide others as required. You will need to be proactive, resourceful, and able to work under pressure to meet challenging deadlines.
 

How you’ll spend your day

As Assoc. Director, Enterprise Architect, Data and AI,  you will be responsible for discovering and architecting IT platforms and solutions. Your responsibilities include the following:

•    Design data architectures that support the deployment of AI models, ensuring scalability, security, and performance across cloud and on-prem environments.
•    Assessing current architecture (Cloud, On-Prem) and designing new architecture that meets the requirements and goals.
•    Lead efforts to transition from on-prem legacy architectures to cloud-native data lakes, warehouses, and advanced analytics platforms.
•    Communicate complex technical architectures and AI strategies to senior leadership and peers, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives.
•    Maintaining the technology landscape and evaluating with the IT Management Units (ITMUs) how new technologies will provide new business capabilities and efficiencies.
•    Leading the process of introducing new applications and technologies into the portfolio together with the ITMUs.
•    Maintaining major systems and technologies roadmap. Plan with the ITMUs the implementation of this roadmap – in specific: major upgrades, technology changes and systems decommissioning.
•    Ensuring that the architecture meets security and compliance requirements for data privacy, access control, and disaster recovery.
•    Implementing within the architecture, best practices including cost optimization, scalability, and performance.
•    Act as the solution architect for the assigned projects – develop the solution level architecture.
•    Responsible for identifying trends, disruptive applications and technologies that can substantially impact the ITMUs and business capabilities.
•    Working closely with your architecture teammates, sharing information, collaborating, and supporting other architecture activities.
•    Working closely with delivery teams such as: cloud engineering, security, data teams, as well as other IT professionals to ensure that your solutions meet the requirements and can be integrated into existing IT landscape.
•    Engage and support the ITMUs in performing Proof of Concepts of new applications and technologies.
•    Keeping up to date with new technologies and driving the evaluation and assessment of those technologies with various delivery units.
•    Collaborating with business stakeholders and IT leaders to identify opportunities for digital, cloud-based solutions that can drive business growth and innovation.
•    Lead and participate in digital innovation activities that may transform the way Teva works.

Your experience and qualifications

•    A minimum of a bachelor's degree in a Computer Sciences or equivalent is required.
•    A minimum of 5 years of Data and AI architecture experience of Enterprise level platforms and projects in global companies.
•    Proven knowledge and experience in the following domains: Big Data, Data quality, Data governance, ML, AI, GenAI, LLMs, Data pipelines, Data Warehouse, Datalakes, Chatbots
•    Experience in working with the following data technologies: Databricks, Azure Fabric, PowerBI, Azure AI and Data services, AWS AI and Data services, Qlik, SAP BW and Datasphere, SAC, Oracle, SQL DB, Copilots (web, M365, Github and so on)
•    Previous experience in designing the architecture of large platforms on public clouds (Azure/AWS/GCP).
•    Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements and map to IT capabilities and platforms.
•    Demonstrated ability to analyze systems requirements and designing IT solutions, choosing the best fit for the architecture.
•    A sustained record of success delivering complex IT Architecture and technology solutions to a diverse and global clientele.
•    Able to drive innovation and continuous improvements for platforms and processes.
•    Strong IT vendor management skills.
•    Experience in working in a matrix managed organization (min 5 years)
•    Up to date knowledge and experience with cyber threats and how to build architectures to mitigate cyber risks- advantage.
•    Experience in modern and Cloud Native development technologies - advantage
•    Experience working in a Pharma IT landscapes (GxP and non-GxP) – advantage. 

Skills and Capabilities:
•    Project management capabilities.
•    Work in a dynamic environment with ever changing priorities.
•    Stakeholder management – ensuring delivery and managing expectations.
•    Planning and execution capabilities – seeing the process end to end.
•    Good interpersonal skills, cordial and respectful.
•    Excellent relationship-building skills, communication skills and team-based project experience.
•    Able to engage and manage up, down and across the IT and business without formal authority.
•    Able to develop and execute a vision for cloud based digital platforms and applications landscape.
•    Fast and quick learner, with passion for technological innovations, able to self-educate and knowledge transfer.
•    Team player – collaborating with others to achieve a greater goal.
•    Excellent English written and verbal communication skills at a senior level both internally and externally.
•    Travel Requirements: As needed by the business requirements.
 

Enjoy a more rewarding choice

•    Dynamic and challenging work environment in one of the world leading pharmaceutical company and the biggest pharmaceutical company in Bulgaria
•    Competitive remuneration bound with performance
•    Additional healthcare insurance
•    Transportation allowance and other flexible benefits
•    Flexible working hours and the option to work from home as per the company policy
•    Opportunity for development
 

Make a difference with Teva Pharmaceuticals

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