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Job Advert Title Solution Architect, Manufacturing Location Poland Function/Business Area Information Technology Employment Class PermanentDescription
Solution Architect, ManufacturingAbout Astellas:
At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.
We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.
We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their caregivers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.
Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.
The Opportunity:
As a Solution Architect, you will leverage in-depth expertise in business applications, platforms, capabilities, and processes to design, implement and innovate solutions to optimize the Astellas technology architecture landscape. The role covers the Global MfgX hub (Product development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain domains) and is pivotal to the Astellas Digital Strategy.
As a Solution Architect, Manufacture, you will be responsible for developing a domain architecture vision, and contributing to the MfgX roadmap, leading collaboration with stakeholders, reviewing functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring consistent design standards, providing technology recommendations, creating solution prototypes, and managing epic story constraints like cost, quality, scope, and resources, assisting delivery leads in estimating costs, resources, and timelines, and remaining involved throughout the epics lifecycle.
Hybrid Working:
At Astellas we recognise the importance of balancing your work and home life, so we offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues in person at the office alongside the flexibility to work from home; optimising the most productive work environment for you to succeed and deliver.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture Vision and Roadmap: Lead and own the MfgX domain architecture blueprint to ensure solutions are aligned with corporate architecture guidelines with a forward view of maturity aligned to business objectives
- Integration Architecture: Design and oversee the integration of new applications with existing systems and software, ensuring seamless operation and data consistency across the enterprise.
- Solution Design and Development: Design comprehensive application solutions that address business needs and challenges. This involves creating architectural designs that are scalable, secure, maintainable.
- Initiatives & CI/CD Oversight: Provide technical leadership throughout the development life cycle, from initial concept through to implementation and support. Guide development teams to ensure adherence to architectural designs and best practices.
- Compliance and Security: Ensure application architectures comply with relevant regulations and standards. Incorporate security measures into the design to protect against threats and vulnerabilities.
- Documentation: Create detailed documentation for application architectures (in ADOIT), including design specifications, integration patterns, and deployment guidelines.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Substantial years of demonstrated relevant experience in integrating and architecting solutions covering manufacturing systems and technologies, including MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), Industrial Automation, Data Historians (OSI-PI), LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems), manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and similar.
- Demonstrable experience implementing Cloud agnostic data platforms and architectures (ideally Databricks) that foster transparency and observability of AI models and systems.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex business processes and associated datasets and create optimal technology solutions. Strong problem-solving skills to address challenges during the project lifecycle.
- Certifications in specific technologies, architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), Agile delivery methodologies (e.g., SAFe) can be beneficial.
- Knowledge of Software Validation processes and requirements. Experience in a GxP environment
- Knowledge of OT security standards (e.g. NIST)
Preferred Qualification:
- Agile Champion: Adherence to DevOps principles and a proven track record with CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong background in software development with expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, .NET, Python), databases/data lakes (Databricks), Integration platforms (Mulesoft, Fivetran HVR) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google).
- Experience in Data Mesh strategy and data platforms implementation would be useful.
- Experience in Manufacturing and Lab Integration (OPC-UA, Kepware, QDocs)
- Direct experience implementing/consulting on known Life Sciences technologies.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or equivalent.
Additional information:
- This is a permanent role based in our Global Capability Centre in Warsaw, Poland and hybrid working with the expectation for some office presence. Flexibility may be required in line with business need. Candidates must be located within a commutable distance of the office
Astellas’ Global Capability Centres – Overview
Astellas’ Global Capability Centre’s (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.
The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.
Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company’s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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