Senior Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture

BeiGene, Ltd.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 420,000 - 525,000; Full time

Job summary

BeOne is seeking a Senior Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture to define, lead, and govern the global infrastructure architecture strategy. You will shape roadmaps across cloud, network, data center, and platform services, partnering with cybersecurity and business technology teams to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.

You will drive modernization through automation, IaC, and standardized services, and guide governance, standards, and risk management for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• Minimum 12 years of progressive IT experience including infrastructure architecture, engineering, cloud platforms, and global IT environments.
• Minimum 7 years of leadership experience managing technical teams or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, data center technologies, identity, endpoint, automation, disaster recovery, and security.
• Experience designing and governing hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, regulatory compliance, data protection, and business continuity.
• Strong vendor management, financial acumen, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global infrastructure architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead architectural planning across cloud platforms, network, compute, storage, identity, and infrastructure services.
• Ensure infrastructure supports global growth, resilience, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity standards.
• Partner with enterprise teams to align capabilities with technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and define adoption strategies for agility and cost efficiency.

Skills

Vendor management

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership influence

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/IT/Engineering/Business

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Teams

Visio

diagramming tools

Job description

General Description

BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

Senior Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture Overview

The Senior Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture is responsible for defining, leading, and governing the enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy across cloud, network, data center, end-user computing, collaboration, identity, and platform services. This role partners closely with cybersecurity, enterprise applications, business technology, digital, data, and regional IT teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities are scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities. As a senior technology leader, this role establishes architectural standards, reference designs, roadmaps, and governance processes to support global growth, operational excellence, resilience, and innovation. The Senior Director provides leadership to architecture and engineering teams, influences technology investment decisions, and ensures infrastructure solutions meet enterprise requirements for performance, compliance, security, automation, and service continuity.

Essential Functions of the Job

Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture

• Define and maintain the global infrastructure architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead architectural planning across cloud platforms, network, compute, storage, data center, identity, endpoint, collaboration, and infrastructure services.
• Ensure infrastructure architecture supports business growth, global scalability, regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and cybersecurity standards.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, application, data, and business technology teams to align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that improve agility, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Cloud, Platform & Modernization Leadership

• Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms through cloud adoption, automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and service standardization.
• Establish architectural patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including workload placement, connectivity, security, availability, and governance.
• Support transformation from legacy infrastructure models to scalable, automated, and product-oriented technology services.
• Ensure technology solutions are designed for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, compliance, and operational supportability.

Governance, Standards & Risk Management

• Establish and govern infrastructure design principles, technology standards, lifecycle management practices, and architecture review processes.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with applicable company policies, security requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Identify technology risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, and architectural gaps; develop mitigation and remediation plans.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to embed security-by-design and resilience-by-design into infrastructure solutions.

Delivery Partnership & Operational Excellence

• Collaborate with infrastructure operations, service management, cybersecurity, procurement, finance, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise technology capabilities.
• Provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure programs, mergers/acquisitions integrations, site expansions, cloud migrations, and global technology initiatives.
• Support vendor evaluation, solution selection, contract input, and strategic partner management for infrastructure technologies and managed services.
• Promote standardization, automation, monitoring, and operational excellence across infrastructure services.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Leads and manages infrastructure architecture and/or engineering team members, including performance management, development, coaching, and resource planning.
• Provides strategic and technical direction to direct reports, matrixed teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Supports recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development of team members.
• Ensures team members have the skills, tools, guidance, and resources needed to deliver high-quality architecture and technology outcomes.
• Promotes collaboration, transparency, and effective communication across global and cross-functional teams.

Computer Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Visio, and enterprise architecture or diagramming tools.
• Strong familiarity with IT service management, cloud management, monitoring, automation, collaboration, and portfolio management platforms.

Education and Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 12 years of progressive IT experience, including significant experience in infrastructure architecture, engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise technology strategy, and global IT environments.
• Minimum 7 years of leadership experience managing technical teams, architecture teams, or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, data center technologies, identity services, endpoint platforms, collaboration technologies, automation, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security.
• Experience designing and governing hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, regulatory compliance, data protection, and business continuity principles.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps, architecture standards, reference designs, and governance processes.
• Experience working in a regulated industry preferred; pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Strong vendor management, financial acumen, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, align competing priorities, and drive decisions across global matrixed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Travel

Be adaptable to business trips as required per business need; require valid driver’s license in applicable countries.

Salary Range Poland

420,000.00 PLN - 525,000.00 PLN

Global Competencies

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communicates with Clarity

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

BeOne is a global oncology company that is discovering and developing innovative treatments that are more affordable and accessible to cancer patients worldwide. With a broad portfolio, we are expediting development of our diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics through our internal capabilities and collaborations. We are committed to radically improving access to medicines for far more patients who need them. Our growing global team of more than 11,000 colleagues spans six continents. To learn more about BeOne, please visit www.beonemedicines.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. For more information, please visit the link to explore job opportunities in China Mainland. China Mainland Job Posting At BeOne, how we work is just as important as the work we do. Below are our Values that determine the decisions we make and how we do things. Patients First Driving Excellence Bold Ingenuity Collaborative Spirit

Equal Opportunity Employer

BeOne is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. BeOne does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.