Associate Director, Infrastructure Cloud Architect

At Eisai, satisfying unmet medical needs and increasing the benefits healthcare provides to patients, their families, and caregivers is Eisai's human health care (hhc) mission. We're a growing pharmaceutical company that is breaking through in neurology and oncology, with a strong emphasis on research and development. Our history includes the development of many innovative medicines, notably the discovery of the world's most widely-used treatment for Alzheimer's disease. As we continue to expand, we are seeking highly-motivated individuals who want to work in a fast-paced environment and make a difference. If this is your profile, we want to hear from you.

The Associate Director, Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the design solutions and service delivery for all departments (commercial, R&D, sales, marketing, etc) across the Americas. Reporting to the Americas Infrastructure Lead, the associate provides extensive, broad-based technical architecture, leadership, management experience and expertise to oversee our Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and on-premises infrastructure platforms. This role is very AWS heavy and requires deep technical hands-on expertise. A key technical leader for Eisai's regional and global infrastructure and cloud delivery, the associate will leverage both prior experience and a strong track record to set up multi hybrid cloud environments, data center migrations, IaC, DevOps practices, SDLC methods, and security.

This leader is responsible for the architecture, assessment, and migration planning of on-premises systems to cloud-native deployment methodologies and has the vision and foresight to incorporate future planning into a cloud migration strategy. As part of this vision, the associate will introduce new emerging technologies, cloud adoption plans, cloud infrastructure designs, and cloud management strategies.

Leading a technical team of local and offshore subject matter experts and engineers both directly and indirectly, the associate will help direct the governance, management, and dayto-day operations of the infrastructure and cloud architecture. Functioning as an internal consultancy to Eisai's IT, business leadership, and other stakeholders, this consultancy provides a cost-effective portfolio of services that promote cloud solution deliveries and ensure operational support. As a key Cloud strategist, the associate provides thought leadership on Eisai's optimized Cloud environment to increase business security, scalability, and enable strategic capabilities for continued growth.

The associate will have and leverage exceptional communication, presentation, and change management skills to drive Eisai's Cloud solutions across all levels of the organization regionally and participate globally.

Essential Functions

• Technical Leadership (50% of Time)

• Influences senior management on Cloud technology adoptions and best practices.

• Defines Operating Models for Regional and helps with Global Cloud adoption.

• Participates in technical Architecture Working Groups (TAWG) with Japan, UK, and US Cloud Teams.

• Designs and builds GXP/GDPR Complaint and validated Cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Works with Procurement to select and implement vendor partners.

• Builds Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) and Cloud Operations Teams.

• Builds DevOps /Automation methods.

• On-Premises/Storage and Data management design and next generation DC services strategy.

• Reviews and provides recommendations for (current) Data replication DR and business continuity.

• Designs and reviews technical environment design for each infrastructure/application solution to determine compatibility with existing infrastructure.

• Assesses new hardware and software as may be needed to implement proposed infrastructure designs and makes recommendations for each solution.

• Delivers infrastructure designs to be implemented for each solution in the existing client environment (CPU, RAM, storage, Network).

• Ensures management confirmation for all key commitments including scope and requirements changes, quality assurance plans, budgets, and implementation schedules.

• Approves infrastructure/application solution requirements and designs.

• Works with ongoing technology refresh and end of life projects to ensure each solution design follows best practices.

• Advises on SaaS support and conversion.

• Project Management (25% of Time)

• Leads Infrastructure and Cloud related project initiatives throughout project life cycle.

• Scopes solution requirements and configures solutions using various cloud platforms to meet business needs and project deliverables.

• Organizes and prioritizes development efforts, interfaces with other technical teams as necessary.

• Oversees and coordinates development efforts with external vendors and partners.

• Strategy (25% of Time)

• Expands the use of cloud technologies by partnering with stakeholders to implement new capabilities.

• Establishes and maintains roadmap for the adoption of new services and associated enhancements.

• Establishes and executes governance for cloud platforms.

Requirements

• Work Experience and Education

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information science, management information systems, or business administration or a related field or equivalent experience relevant to this position.

• Minimum of 10 years related work experience.

• Information Technology Experience

• 8+ years of overall experience in information technology and 4+ years as a Cloud Architect.

• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership roles for enterprise-scale application architecture and delivery.

• AWS /Azure Solutions Architect Certifications. AWS Certified Architect Professional is a must have.

• Infrastructure as a Code experience, specifically with Terraform & Ansible.

• Network and Security as Code experience.

• ITIL Foundation certified with strong understanding of the ITIL framework.

• Working knowledge of LDAP, AD, SSO, Email Infrastructure, Web Services.

• Experience with AWS and Azure all services required for Design and build Infrastructure solutions.

• Experience with AWS Control Tower/Azure Landing zone designs.

• Experience in Networking, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Storage, Compute on AWS, Azure, and Data centers.

• Experience designing and implementing scalability, failover, high availability, DR, capacity planning, security, and compliance.

• Experience with backups and recovery tools.

• Hands-on professional level experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, containers.

• DevOps automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelining, automated delivery models, Azure DevOps, Cloud formations, ARM templates, GitHub.

• Expertise in performance monitoring and tuning.

• Experience with Physical servers such as HP DL series, Sun Sprac, Dell Powerstore, Pure Storage Array, Dell IDPA, and Fabric Networking.

• Strong business analysis skills and experience. Includes requirements definition and process modelling.

• Experience working with all levels of the organization to develop a platform strategy and roadmap and also maintain consensus around the strategic direction.

• Leadership and Teamwork

• Strong track record of effective cross-functional team collaboration and execution.

• Innovative, consultative mindset and approach to effectively drive the organization's digital business strategies and transformation.

• Effective leadership skills, including team and consensus building and the ability to balance team and individual responsibilities.

• Project Management

• Experience leading teams and driving results for multiple projects across several functional areas.

• Experience in project planning, development, and delivery.

• Experience managing projects in collaboration with external partners such as managed service organizations, technology vendors, and consulting companies.

• Communication, Organization and Issues-Resolution Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Influential networker with a collaborative mindset and strong customer-centric focus.

• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

• Proven problem solver who takes ownership and is driven by a sense of exigency, timely resolution, and keen attention to detail to execute successfully under time and resource pressures.

• Eisai Core Values

• Embodies and consistently demonstrates Eisai's core company values: Quality, Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, and Professionalism.

• Desirable Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with managed services in an onshore/offshore model highly preferred.

• Pharmaceutical experience preferred. Experience with Good Practices (GxP) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for Cloud infrastructure qualification and validation.

• Experience designing and implementing complex, global, multi-tenant, multi-language solutions.

• Software development background (Perl, Python, Shell).

• Exposure of Big Data platforms such as Cloudera, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Databricks, RStudio, and other tools.

Scope Addendums are not added into Workday - This is for Compensation purposes

Scope Addendum

Geographical

• Position based in Nutley, NJ

• Responsible for technology solutions used by ESI, Cambridge, Exton, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and select global functions

• Technology leader for Eisai cloud strategy

• Leads managed service vendor relationships for respective technology areas

Business Units

• All

Financial and Organizational

• Accountable for ~$5 million operating expense and ~$1 million capital on an annual basis

• Direct management of contingent workforce

• Leads relationship and service delivery with managed service provider for multiple technology areas. MSP workforce exceeds 50 individuals.

Technology Platforms

• Compute

• Nutanix, VXRails, & Cisco Hyperconverged solutions

• Dell & HPE Servers

• Linux, Solaris, and Windows Server OS

• VMWare and Citrix Platform

• Storage

• Netapp & Dell/EMC

• Cloud

• Amazon Web Services

• Azure

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