Automation Delivery Lead

Sandoz India; Telangana; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz India is seeking a Senior Delivery Lead for enterprise IT, automation, and platform delivery. You will own end-to-end automation initiatives, govern external partners, align diverse stakeholders, and scale the Factory delivery model across platforms and business demand.

You will drive standards, governance, and cross-functional collaboration, with a focus on data integrity, security, and regulatory considerations in a global pharmaceutical context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise IT, application or platform delivery.
• 5+ years end-to-end accountability for complex technology delivery involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience delivering enterprise automation solutions, ideally with Appian or similar low-code platforms.
• Experience establishing and scaling factory-based delivery models.
• Experience governing delivery partners, service performance and risk.
• Ability to align diverse stakeholders on priorities and readiness.
• Knowledge of end-to-end delivery including demand intake, design, build, testing, release, adoption.
• Knowledge of APIs, integration, security, GxP and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise automation delivery across Factory and non-Factory scope, expanding platforms.
• Interface with delivery partners; ensure scope, timelines, budget, quality and knowledge transfer.
• Align stakeholders across architecture, platform engineering, quality, security, and operations.
• Establish delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, documentation, release governance.
• Oversee demand intake, roadmaps, capacity, risks, escalations, and transition to support.
• Drive onboarding of additional automation platforms into the Factory model to scale capability.

Skills

Enterprise IT

Application delivery

Platform delivery

Automation solutions

Appian

Low-code platforms

Delivery governance

Stakeholder management

Agile

Waterfall

Job description

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Own enterprise automation delivery across Factory and non-Factory scope, while governing and progressively expanding the Automation Factory across additional platforms, capabilities, and business demand.
• Act as the primary internal interface with delivery partners, holding partners accountable for agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, resourcing, contractual commitments, and knowledge transfer.
• Align business stakeholders, architecture, platform engineering, quality, security, operations, and other internal functions on priorities, dependencies, decisions, and solution readiness.
• Establish and govern delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, documentation, release expectations, and compliance with enterprise architecture, information security, GxP, validation, and data integrity requirements.
• Oversee demand intake, delivery-route assessment, roadmaps, prioritisation, capacity, major risks, dependencies, escalations, business adoption, and transition of solutions into sustainable operational support.
• Drive the onboarding of additional automation platforms and capabilities into the Factory model, using delivery performance, lessons learned, reusable assets, and business demand to scale the capability sustainably.

Essential Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT, application delivery, software engineering, platform delivery, or automation solutions.
• At least 5 years of experience with end-to-end accountability for complex technology delivery involving multiple stakeholders, platforms, and external delivery partners.
• Experience delivering enterprise automation solutions, ideally using Appian or comparable low-code, workflow, orchestration, or automation platforms.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, governing, and scaling a factory-based or comparable delivery model.
• Strong experience governing delivery partners, contractual commitments, service performance, delivery quality, risks, escalations, and knowledge transfer.
• Proven ability to align business, architecture, engineering, quality, security, and operational stakeholders on priorities, decisions, dependencies, and delivery readiness.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end technology delivery, including demand intake, requirements, solution assessment, design, build, testing, validation, release, adoption, and transition to support, using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methods.
• Experience establishing delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, release governance, capacity models, and performance measures across Factory and non-Factory delivery.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration, APIs, workflow orchestration, information security, validation practices, GxP requirements, and data integrity principles.
• Strong communication, negotiation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a global matrix organisation and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Own enterprise automation delivery across Factory and non-Factory scope, while governing and progressively expanding the Automation Factory across additional platforms, capabilities, and business demand.
• Act as the primary internal interface with delivery partners, holding partners accountable for agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, resourcing, contractual commitments, and knowledge transfer.
• Align business stakeholders, architecture, platform engineering, quality, security, operations, and other internal functions on priorities, dependencies, decisions, and solution readiness.
• Establish and govern delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, documentation, release expectations, and compliance with enterprise architecture, information security, GxP, validation, and data integrity requirements.
• Oversee demand intake, delivery-route assessment, roadmaps, prioritisation, capacity, major risks, dependencies, escalations, business adoption, and transition of solutions into sustainable operational support.
• Drive the onboarding of additional automation platforms and capabilities into the Factory model, using delivery performance, lessons learned, reusable assets, and business demand to scale the capability sustainably.

Essential Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT, application delivery, software engineering, platform delivery, or automation solutions.
• At least 5 years of experience with end-to-end accountability for complex technology delivery involving multiple stakeholders, platforms, and external delivery partners.
• Experience delivering enterprise automation solutions, ideally using Appian or comparable low-code, workflow, orchestration, or automation platforms.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, governing, and scaling a factory-based or comparable delivery model.
• Strong experience governing delivery partners, contractual commitments, service performance, delivery quality, risks, escalations, and knowledge transfer.
• Proven ability to align business, architecture, engineering, quality, security, and operational stakeholders on priorities, decisions, dependencies, and delivery readiness.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end technology delivery, including demand intake, requirements, solution assessment, design, build, testing, validation, release, adoption, and transition to support, using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methods.
• Experience establishing delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, release governance, capacity models, and performance measures across Factory and non-Factory delivery.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration, APIs, workflow orchestration, information security, validation practices, GxP requirements, and data integrity principles.
• Strong communication, negotiation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a global matrix organisation and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

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