Description
Start:Duration: 6 months +
Based at Company HQ in Anderlecht, the Digital Solution Architect is playing a key role as the technical lead in the Digital Factory. The Digital Factory is the company internal agency delivering digital assets and solutions (E-details, Websites, Web Applications, …) across multiple geographies.
He/she is responsible for providing software & systems development leadership, guidance and oversight to all aspects of digital software projects and activities.
He/she will play an active part in the identification of technology trends, assessment and setup of new Digital solutions/services within the Digital Factory, ensuring the growth of the Digital Factory. He/she will work closely with architecture and other IT colleagues to achieve this.
Responsibilities:
Key Accountabilities
•She/he will act as a key technical consultant for the digital services within the Digital Factory
•She/he is responsible for providing software & systems development leadership, guidance and oversight to all aspects of digital software projects and activities.
•She/he will translate business needs into technical solutions for the development teams
•She/he will play an active part in the identification of technology trends, assessment and setup of new Digital solutions/services within the Digital Factory, ensuring the growth of the Digital Factory.
Technical Lead
•She/he will analyse new digital requests and propose the adequate solution
•She/he will monitor technical excellence and quality
•She/he will apply DevOps to ensure continuous improvement of our digital technology and allow business to increase time to market and value
•She/he will establish a technical vision with our Digital offshore partners, IT architecture and other IT colleagues and turn these into reality
•She/he will work closely with our offshore team and challenge wherever needed (IT solution, estimates, development guidelines, …)
•She/he will be able to guide external resources and evaluate proposed technical solutions
•She/he recommends, maintains and improves the Digital Technology architecture in alignment with the enterprise IT architecture and company business objectives
•She/he ensures that all components of Digital systems integrate effectively and meet all regulatory and compliance guidelines
Relationship Management
•He/she builds a good relationship with the different stakeholders - Business partners (CoE, Brand Managers, Infra, Off/Near-shore ,…), IT, Digital Factory vendor resources, agencies, …
•He/she works closely with the stakeholders to understand their needs
•Work closely with nearshore & offshore development teams.
•Work closely with the project managers to ensure projects are delivered within time & quality standards.
•Collaborate with external resources to achieve business results
Technical skills:
•Educated to a Master level in an IT or other, business-relevant discipline
•Good understanding of the use of Digital solutions (edetail, Web, Mobile, Campaign, ..) within the pharmaceutical industry
•An excellent understanding of the web technologies (HMTL, CSS, Javascript (frameworks), PHP, .NET,…)
•Experience within Web Content Management system is recommended
•Preferably some experience as developer (PHP or .NET) or front-end developer
•Proven track record as functional and technical analyst within IT
•Excellent relationship management skills and pro-active attitude towards business users
•Good understanding of customer-facing sales and marketing processes and creative in applying new ideas and possibilities to enrich the digital channel
•Participated in digital engagements and used project management principles, techniques and tools (eg Prince2, Agile, …)
•Familiar with IT change/release management processes
•Organizational change management/communication skills
•Business fluent English