Sr. Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture & IT Innovation

Sr. Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture & IT Innovation
United States - California - Foster CityUnited States - North Carolina - Raleigh

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

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Job Description


Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North, South and Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Gilead makes it a priority to increase access to its medicines for people who can benefit from them, regardless of where they live or their economic status.

Head of Enterprise Architecture & Innovation is accountable for developing overall strategy, principles and guardrails, end to end integration, modernization, and emerging technologies in support of Gilead's corporate priorities and ambitions. This role applies a structured business & solution architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business unit, in collaboration with our business engagement leaders, within the context of the enterprise. Maintains expertise in the direction of the business functions and technical innovations, to identify opportunities and associated plans to advance business capabilities. Effective partnership and teamwork with business partners, their IT teams and all other Gilead IT service teams is a key success factor. Drive Innovation pipeline and portfolio to introduce positive disruptions that will give Gilead a strategic edge. This role will represent Gilead in various industry forums and consortia to bring benchmarking ability to the enterprise

Provide leadership and expertise to IT in the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture and Innovation Team in the supporting Gilead's business strategy.

Essential Duties & Job Functions:

• Lead a team to increase the innovative potential across all business functions at Gilead.
  
• Gain high-level stakeholder buy-in to fully embrace and promote innovation activities.
  
• Instill the innovation culture to prototype fast and fail fast and retain learnings from each engagement.
  
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to enhance innovative thinking around the company.
  
• Expand on the organization's long-term innovative capabilities.
  
• Advise management on near-, mid-, and long-term innovation goals.
  
• Meet with stakeholders at different levels to identify areas of innovation and growth.
  
• Develop, strategize, and plan new engagements that will drive innovation.
  

General Leadership and Management

• Ensure effective leadership, teamwork, and collaboration with other IT peers across IT to achieve a unified and responsive IT services approach to the Business
  
• Lead a team of enterprise architects, domain architects and subject matter experts to create strategies, innovation pipeline and governance of technology adoption
  
• Build and sustain a high performing team of internal consultants to provide coaching and problem-solving expertise to the enterprise
  
• Accountable as the Two-IN-A Box counterpart leader for Director of IT Strategy ensuring all EA deliverables are aligned and executed from a Strategy perspective
  
• Leads technology talent pipeline
  

Innovation, Governance and Standards

• Drive development and maintenance of business capability models, technology architecture and governance functions across Gilead lines of business in alignment with Gilead's IT Strategy
  
• Responsible for establishing a value proposition-based capability assessment model across all IT and business domains. Conduct cross business/IT capability assessments with a focus on measurement and advancing capabilities across Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
  
• Provide template for creation of strategically aligned roadmaps for innovation and continuous improvement
  
• In collaboration with business domain leads, ensure governance of Operational Technology Council (OTC) across business/IT domains with a strong focus on EA synergies across all markets
  
• Accountable for creation, maintenance, and governance of as-is to to-be arch and tech landscapes across all business functions and markets globally with a strong focus on One Target Solution by Capability
  
• Accountable for delivering industry benchmarking capabilities across domains and ensuring benchmarking is incorporated across capabilities via domain architects
  
• Accountable for influencing and steering business stakeholders towards enterprise tech standards throughout cross functional technology eco-system with tangible results
  
• Sponsor creation and maintenance of an integrated view of the system landscape to support future business intelligence and analytics
  
• Establish principles, guard rails for modernization and introduction of new technologies
  
• Collaborate with internal and external experts to create reference architectures and re-usable patterns as part of Enterprise Architecture library
  
• Support and implement strategy and align with established principles and guardrails for technology footprint
  
• Act as approval authority for technical architecture for solutions and any changes proposed to existing architecture
  
• Partner effectively with other IT organizations in prioritizing business-specific demand as part of portfolio planning for projects
  
• Lead Innovation team in identifying, introduce and pilot disruptive technologies and white spaces to give Gilead a competitive advantage
  
• Demonstrates knowledge of concrete gaps (innovation and non-innovation oriented) and use case opportunities across business and IT domains for pursuing pilots across domains
  
• Accountable for delivering innovations that scale across business and IT domains with a focus on POC's to Scale across domains
  

Portfolio and Delivery Planning

• Act as a trusted advisor to STC and ITLT in guidance to investment and capability road mapping
  
• Ensure effective consultation with business partners in exploring and applying innovative outside-in solution ideas to address business opportunities and challenges
  
• Engage with platform and product teams to understand, influence and integrate vendor roadmaps with capability roadmap
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 12+ years of relevant experience and BS in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent experience OR 10+ years of relevant experience, with a M.S. in a related field
  
• A solid understanding of innovation and how it should be applied in corporate for internal and external innovations.
  
• A great understanding of innovation principles such as Lean Startup methodology, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, Lean Canvas, Kickbox, etc.
  
• A good understanding of technology concepts such as AI including machine learning and computer vision, IoT, XR (VR & AR), blockchain, quantum computing, etc.
  
• Forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic situations while embracing the fail cheap and learn fast mentality.
  
• Successful track record of running an internal innovation team in a corporate setting.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years of working experience in an IT leadership role in the life science industry (particularly with Commercial, Research & Development and Manufacturing business functions)
  
• 12+ years of experience at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and innovation, applying advanced technologies to large and/or complex business problems.
  
• Solid understanding of IT governance, inspection, compliance, and regulatory requirements for validated systems
  
• Working knowledge of applied IT architecture in the effective design of business-enabling solutions
  
• Broad experience across multiple technology stacks (application, data management, integration, security, cloud, etc.) highly desired.
  
• Working knowledge of database tools, query optimization & basic analytics
  
• Experience with all disciplines of architecture including information, application, solution, and enterprise.
  
• Working knowledge of various solution delivery methodologies: waterfall, agile, hybrid, etc.
  
• Proven organizational savvy in working across organizational boundaries and reporting lines - ability to work in a matrix environment is needed
  
• Demonstrated discipline, analytical skills, problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
  
• Ability to lead and manage under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty
  
• Independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive and responsive with a bias for action and results
  
• Demonstrates Gilead's core values of Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, and Integrity
  
• Good verbal and written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
  
• High level of personal integrity consistent with Gilead's core values
  
• Experience and capabilities in accurate budgeting, forecasting and portfolio management
  
• Understanding of six sigma highly desired
  
• Distinguished Architect Open Group (or similar), MCSE, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master III (or similar), PMP (or APMP)
  

Gilead Core Values:

Integrity (Doing What's Right)

Inclusion (Encouraging Diversity)

Teamwork (Working Together)

Excellence (Being Your Best)

Accountability (Taking Personal Responsibility)

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