Head of Information Architecture, R&d, Enterprise

**Location**: Barcelona

Our Enterprise Data Office (EDO) is a recently formed central IT function accountable for enterprise strategy and standards in Data. The organization works closely with data delivery teams across Business Technology Group (BTG - Business Unit) IT teams and data governance teams SET Area (Line of Business) Data Offices (SEDO), supporting the build of the AstraZeneca data products including Data Mesh, analytical solutions, and with a view to enterprise information architectures and thinking.

Our global Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Practice works within the EDO, specializing in Enterprise Information Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Modelling and Data Analysis. We design the key aspects of the data world for AstraZeneca across our global customer businesses, offering critical services focused upon the ingestion, extraction, processing, transformation, transport, storage and representation of knowledge, analysis and modelling of our essential data and facts. We use leading thinking, processes, and methods to achieve enduring outcomes for projects and business-as-usual working, and lead on enterprise-level, cross organizational information architecture, for example around the definition and delivery of Data Products and alignment with Data Mesh and Data Platforms and FAIR Data thinking across our businesses.

Our R&D focused EIA team partners with the R&D functions for Target Identification and Validation, Lead Compound Generation and Optimization, Chemistry Manufacturing & Controls (CMC), Precision Medicine and Bio Sample Management, Pre-Clinical Development, Cell and Gene Therapy, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Patient Safety, R&D Quality, Real World Evidence, R&D Project and Portfolio Management to deliver strategic value. This partnership includes the R&D IT team(s) e.g. Heads of IT, Business Partners, Project Managers, Data Engineering and fellow members of IGNITE & EDO focused on R&D e.g. Enterprise and Solution Architecture, Data Office(s); as well as the business stakeholders themselves.

This work may include:

- Focus - Leading a team of Information Architects who are focused on the delivery of Information Architecture across R&D, ensuring that activities are appropriately resourced using internal or external consultants. This will include both delivery functions, supporting projects, and strategic activities which are setting the future direction for R&D data.
- Focus - leading and driving the definition of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data strategies for the R&D organization and connecting with a Data Mesh strategy.
- Focus - close collaboration with R&D Data Governance teams to ensure that both Information Architecture and Data Management activities are closely connected and embedded into our ways of working.
- Focus - close collaboration with the R&D Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams to ensure that Information Architecture is embedded within IT Architecture processes.
- Contributing to the definition and governance of enterprise Master and Reference Data Management architectures, strategies, designs, models by ensuring that R&D requirements are defined and embedded into Enterprise strategies for master data.
- Contributing to the definition of enterprise Data Strategies which may include information and data regulatory or technical governances and Data Mesh, data innovation, business and technology platforms and ecosystems, enterprise architectures, standards, frameworks, governance policies standards and procedures, architectures, metadata, strategies, designs, models, methods/methodologies, business architectures, architecture and other patterns and consolidating thinking and artefacts across one or more business units, one or more projects/programmes which may be global or local, tactical or strategic, in scale
- Supporting the definition of reporting and analytics, data science, digital, and operational business use cases
- Supporting the definition of common ingestion, curation, data design, and consumption patterns
- Support the definition of modeling data structures for conform and consumption layers in line with DataOps
- Support the definition of Information architecture, models, ontologies, taxonomies standards and reusable designs

The work will also include oversight of the R&D IT project portfolio, ensuring that architectural alignment tasks during the lifecycle of a project, including the alignment with Information Standards and Enterprise Models, are appropriately addressed in the Phase-end QA Checkpoints.

You will report to the Head of EIA, and work within the leadership team in EIA and broader into the wider EDO teams, to manage and progress our projects, finances, operations, reporting, and assist with activities and relationships with our customers in the business, suppliers and vendors.

**Typical Accountabilities**

**Enterprise Information Architecture Accountabilities**:

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