Clinical Data IT Product Lead - Mississauga, Canada - AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

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Mississauga, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being daring, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality.

If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.

As a Clinical Data IT Product lead, you will be key member of the Clinical Standards Product IT DevOps team which will be core product feeding into downstream products such as EDC, Clinical Data Review & Monitoring/Visualization landscape to ensure data is bring together, transform, and publish in alignment to CDISC standards and risk-based study monitoring approach.

The IT Product lead will have the opportunity to collaborate with Platform Manager, Product Manager/Owner, Senior Platform Engineers, DevOps Leads, Release Engineers, and Solution/Integration Architects within AZ to establish standard methodologies for software development and engineering, business analysis, solution designs, enterprise software integration and project management within BizDevOps Agile IT Platform Delivery Model.

You will work in partnership with the IT Platform Managers, Business Product Director/Managers you will lead and oversight the value stream enabled cross products/platform initiatives and work closely with Platform Manager/other IT product leads and partners to achieve overall Platform role.

Platform consists of a wide range of product and technology components where we are harmonizing both backend and frontend solutions into a service catalogue of solutions enabled within Platform framework.

The IT Product Led will also have responsibilities to:

Assess business and technical requirements and business priorities as well as leads high-level investigations or analysis aligned to the strategy.
Influence the designs for sophisticated technical solutions in a balanced and manageable way using existing and new platforms, in close collaboration with enterprise and solution architecture and software engineering practice.
Chip in as a technology advisor identifying technical implications and providing strategic and technical recommendations to support business objectives in line with overall Platform Strategy.
Be accountable for implementing strategies covering testing, release, and documentation for applicable IT Product working through respective Platform lead and DevOps Platform team.

This role requires a hybrid set of technical, business domain, and leadership skills.

You are encouraged to perform as a leader-doer with the ability to encourage and motivate an agile and complementary team of authorities in a complex matrix organization.

This role is a mix of leading a team and forming a relationship of trust with our partners, anchored by good technical and domain expertise and continuous learning and development.

You'll build strong strategic relationships with sophisticated customer groups and senior collaborators, developing a deep understanding of the short-term and long-term business direction & IT strategy.

Responsibilities include facilitating accurate IT Platform demand forecasting, planning, and delivery collaboratively with respective Platform Teams under scope of the Operational Clinical Development Value Stream.

You'll lead technical impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future solutions within the Platform framework.

The Data IT Product Lead will present and gain agreement from senior leaders for IT initiatives, demonstrating proven experience to gain credibility, trust, and commitment.

You'll perform the hands-on Technology Lead role across multiple initiatives, taking on IT Ownership for identified platforms/systems and collaborating closely with various business departments, other IT resources and our vendors both to develop, maintain and support the IT Platform E2E through offshore delivery centers.

Role Related Key Activities:

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Analyzing: Assess and document platform composition and condition, identify customers and expectations on run (i.e., operations), exploit (e.g., requests) and new and current projects and issues.
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Defining: Define and develop the platform strategic, roadmap, Long term Planning including relevant performance measures, addressing current issues and challenges, future for changes and opportunities for improvement.
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Engaging: Proactively discusses the platform roadmap with business functions using the platform and with other platform, process, and partnership across IT. Collect feedback for improvement, ensure alignment and coordination, and avoid excess or conflicting demands.
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Operating: Complete the platform roadmap, actively lead the platform as a set of interconnected assets and handle cross-platform dependencies. Present financial show back and planning associated with platform roadmaps in collaboration with IT Capability, Business Partners.

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Evaluating: Assess the