Principal Enterprise Architect, Sustainability & AI

AstraZeneca; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AstraZeneca is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect in Sustainability to shape architecture standards, roadmaps, and technology strategies across the business and IT landscape. The role focuses on strategic planning over a 1-5 year horizon and immediate solution design projects, guiding transitions and blueprints to support sustainable innovation.

You will lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with internal and external partners to align architectures with AZ roadmaps, while embedding

Formación

• Relevant technical degree or equivalent
• Experience authoring and completing architecture roadmaps
• Experience producing application strategies/roadmaps for a global enterprise
• Experience with rationalisation, consolidation, and integration of technology
• Experience with large justification phase work – product evaluation, case formulation
• Experience developing and influencing business strategies with multi-functional team impact
• Experience developing and leading innovative solutions
• Proven experience of leading change and challenging approaches/ideas
• Experience developing and managing relationships with third-party suppliers
• Experience designing complex technology solutions aligned to enterprise roadmaps
• Experience in designing AI/ML solutions
• Strong networking skills with good internal/external links
• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language
• Awareness of marketplace developments and their relevance to AZ
• Ability to work well in diverse, multinational teams and influence others positively
• Open mind to learning new skills and capabilities
• Ability to follow agile and incremental architecture approaches
• Strong analytical skills on architecture trade-offs

Responsabilidades

• Provide enterprise design thinking across domains including Business, Application, Integration, Cloud, Data & Analytics, and AI/ML
• Lead efforts to ensure architecture decisions support business and IT strategy, ensuring compliance with AZ standards, blueprints, and roadmaps
• Participate in architecture assessments and reviews, contributing as a lead reviewing architect or domain expert
• Document and share knowledge and standard methodologies to develop the architecture capability and practice
• Be accountable for developing architecture standards, technology domain strategies, roadmaps, and blueprints
• Define and update 'Transition' and 'To-Be' architectures applying AZ guiding principles
• Support solution development efforts from portfolios, participate in IT initiatives, and provide guidance for better planning and decision-making
• Maintain a view of current and future state architecture within defined focus areas
• Develop architecture building blocks to support enterprise architecture implementation
• Lead or actively participate in enterprise domain teams and working groups

Conocimientos

Architecture roadmaps

AI/ML

Communication skills

Agile

Architecture standards

Cross-cultural teamwork

Stakeholder management

Complex tech design

Educación

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Masters or professional certification

Descripción del empleo

AstraZeneca is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect in Sustainability to shape architecture standards, roadmaps, and technology strategies across the business and IT landscape. The role focuses on strategic planning over a 1-5 year horizon and immediate solution design projects, guiding transitions and blueprints to support sustainable innovation.

You will lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with internal and external partners to align architectures with AZ roadmaps, while embedding