Global Supply Chain Solution Architect Lead

GSK; Upper Merion Township (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline is seeking a lead Digital & Technology Architecture professional for the Global Supply Chain capital projects portfolio, with primary focus on the Upper Merion Flex Factory. You will shape architectures from concept through operation, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable manufacturing capabilities across sites.

The role requires guiding cross-functional teams, aligning with GSC Digital & Technology, and external partners, while delivering reusable architecture patterns across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering/IT field.
• 8+ years of experience in architecture, engineering technology, manufacturing technology or related disciplines.
• Experience leading architecture for large, complex capital programs or site transformations.
• Experience integrating manufacturing, automation, engineering, quality, cloud, data and enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for the capital projects portfolio, including the Flex Factory.
• Translate business, engineering and site requirements into current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures.
• Define integrated designs across manufacturing, engineering, quality, automation, data, cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Apply composable architecture principles to promote reuse, interoperability and avoid siloed tech.
• Act as architecture design authority at programme stage gates with evidence-based recommendations.
• Manage cross-site, cross-domain and supplier architecture dependencies, decisions and risks.
• Develop solution options and provide cost, value, risk and feasibility input to investment decisions.
• Identify architecture exceptions and escalation material decisions through governance forums.
• Maintain architecture artefacts, roadmaps and decision records for the capital portfolio.
• Represent GSC Architecture with programme leaders, Engineering, sites, suppliers and enterprise functions.

Skills

API Management

Application Development

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud Architectures

Cloud Computing

Cybersecurity

Data Architecture

DBMS

DevOps

Microservices

Network Architecture

Security Architecture

SOA

Software Engineering

System Integration

Technical Solution Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering

Job description

GlaxoSmithKline is seeking a lead Digital & Technology Architecture professional for the Global Supply Chain capital projects portfolio, with primary focus on the Upper Merion Flex Factory. You will shape architectures from concept through operation, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable manufacturing capabilities across sites.

The role requires guiding cross-functional teams, aligning with GSC Digital & Technology, and external partners, while delivering reusable architecture patterns across