Technology Leader - Life Sciences R&D

ZSs Business Technology Solutions team

Life Sciences R&D space

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery process across 3-4 client engagements helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions in life sciences R&D space;
• Translate complex client expectations and business problem into technical requirements. Own end to end responsibility to lead project across all phases – right from discovery/ POC to managing operations;
• Understand the technology landscape in the broader pharma industry and propose advancements to our roadmap.
• Ownership to ensure the proposed design/ architecture, deliverables meet the client expectation and solves the business problem with high degree of quality;
• Lead the team consisting of Specialist, Developer, Operator, etc. to solve the business problems and lead end to end delivery;
• Work in tandem with global counterparts in planning and accomplishing planned activities, identification or risks and mitigation strategy;
• Build relationship with client stakeholders and lead presentations related to project deliverables, design brainstorming / discussion, status updates, innovation/ improvements, etc.;
• Collaborate with other ZS internal expertise teams - Architects, Validation/ testing, etc. to ensure best in class technology solution;
• Outlook for continuous improvement, innovation and provide necessary mentorship and guidance to the team;
• Liaison with Staffing partner, HR business partners for team building/ planning;
• Assist Senior Leadership on building POV on new technology or problem solving, Innovation to build firm intellectual capital:
• Actively lead unstructured problem solving to design and build complex solutions, tune to meet expected performance and functional requirements;
• Build big data use-cases and Hadoop-based design patterns, real time/stream analytics trends;
• Leverage expertise / experience of both traditional and modern data architecture and processing concepts, including relational databases.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree with specialization in Computer Science, MIS, IT or another computer related discipline.
• 12+ years of relevant of hands on IT services or consulting industry experience leading medium-large scale technology solution delivery engagements for life sciences clients;
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading large delivery teams in clinical or real world evidence space;
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects at the same time;
• Experience in leading and building POV on new technology or problem solving, Innovation to build firm intellectual capital
• Extensive experience in big data and cloud technologies

Additional skills:

• Strong client presence and ability to communicate verbally and in writing technical concepts to all audiences.
• Significant supervisory, coaching and hands-on project management skills;
• Ability to manage a virtual global team environment that contributes to the overall timely delivery of multiple projects.
• Willingness to travel to other global offices as needed to work with client or other internal project teams.