Information Architect

**Location: Barcelona (on-site).**

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 interpersonal 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.

The EIA practice is seeking an Information Architect, that aligns to the Operations line of business encompassing Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing.

The Operations Information Architecture team supports the following business capability areas:

- Develop: Development and commercialisation of medicines emerging from R&D
- Plan: Supply chain planning and optimisation
- Source: Procurement of externally sourced materials and contract manufacturing
- Make: Manufacturing and quality release of medicines in a validated (GMP) environment
- Delivery: the delivery of medicines to patients

The role will focus on the definition and governance of enterprise information architectures, strategies, designs, models and consolidating thinking and artefacts across Operations, one or more projects/programmes, to drive out enterprise thinking and delivery across AstraZeneca IT function. The role will also support the definition of enterprise Data Strategies which may include information and data, regulatory or technical governances in a Data Mesh architecture, data innovation, enterprise architectures, governance policies standards and procedures.

**Typical Accountabilities**

**Enterprise Information Architecture Accountabilities**:

- Responsible for defining, leading, and delivering coherent strategic and tactical architectural thinking across information and data architectures, MRDM, data strategies, and information and data governances.
- Responsible for working within the Enterprise Data Architecture Framework and defining, extending, managing, and benchmarking projects against leading practices, models (logical, physical, semantic), standards, frameworks, and the overall Blueprint for a project.
- Support the Head/Lead of Information Architecture for Operations in developing strategy and standard methodology for Information Architecture. Supplies to leaders of the overall Enterprise Data Strategy in partnership the AstraZeneca business functions, solution developments and functional project.
- Responsible for architecture and technology evangelization, architecture roadmap, and alignment.
- Responsible for developing and performing architecture, leading practice, and technology education.
- Responsible for Architectural Governance across architectural disciplines, including developing Architectural. Decisions and progressing work to appropriate governance and assurance forums, boards and councils.

**Operations** **aligned Accountabilities**:

- Deliver and lead Information Architecture (IA), conceptual and logical models, for operational, master and data products including data models, information flows, master/reference data and metadata designs to meet one or more Business Capability requirements.
- Work with business leaders to evolve IA designs to support business strategy.
- Be responsible for the IA designs of one or more Business capability level IA designs.
- Take on accountability for the IA for projects or programmes impacting Business capability areas within Operations.
- Assure IT change projects in that Business Capability are aligned to IA through either delivering IA blueprint artefacts or assessing designs from Data Modellers/Solution Architects assigned to the project.
- Responsible for selecting or defining the correct architecture and patterns to fulfil traditional reporting (management information, business intelligence) and analytics, data science, digital, and operational business use cases. This includes:

- Providing both strategic and tactical coherent architectural thinking in support of data and other strategies, enterprise data and information architectures.
- Support the development of Data Integration architecture and overall Data Integration design of a project.
- Gains approval for the various IA artifacts ensuring enforcement of standard enterprise data element names, abbreviations, characteristics, and domains during the lifecycle of a project.

**Essential Skills/Experience**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent number of years of experience in a Computer Science or Data Management related field.
- Expe