Associate Director, Data Analytics & AI - Solution Architect

About the role

Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. Our Technology centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of the company IT operating model, Tech centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each tech center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. Role Overview: At our company, we are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. One of the key priorities for our company is a significant focus on Data and its utilization as a Strategic asset to drive insight-driven decisions. The opportunity to accelerate our time to insights hinges on our ability to integrate, enrich and govern our disparate and evolving data sources, at speed and scale. The Enterprise IT Digital, Data and Analytics & AI team's mission is to focus on driving these capabilities to increase utilization of data within the organization. Are you passionate about designing innovative solutions that drive business success? Join us as a Solution Architect for Data Analytics & AI, where you will lead the development of forward-looking architecture that power our enterprise. As a strategic communicator and technical expert, you will collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration and compliance. If you are ready to apply your expertise in AI and automation to make a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply. What will you do in this role: Design and evaluate scalable solution architectures that meet enterprise needs across Data & Analytics (DnA), Intelligent Automation (IA), and AI domains. Analyze current architectures to identify gaps and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, while defining and evolving target-state architectures for DnA and IA platforms across business functions. Collaborate with developers, product owners, and architects to ensure seamless integration and compliance, while championing governance practices, applying architectural frameworks, and driving innovative solutions. Monitor industry and technology trends to shape architecture roadmaps and guide adoption of emerging capabilities like GenAI and self-service analytics. Align solution architecture with business strategy, advocate for user-centric design principles and manage technical debt with remediation strategies. Evaluate the financial impact of architectural alternatives to ensure cost-effective, value-driven solutions. Lead agile delivery of reusable technology products that support long-term architectural vision and deliver incremental value. Promote DevSecOps, platform automation, and modern engineering practices to enhance delivery and operational excellence. Build strong networks across business and IT, actively contributing to Our communities of practice and architectural forums. What Should you have: Bachelor's degree concentration in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. 10+ years of experience spanning IT disciplines including solution architecture, systems integration, and end-to-end system design across data, application, and platform layers. Strong understanding of IT, Solution & Data architecture principles , data platforms, business process management and enterprise technology reuse Demonstrated ability to analyze, design, and implement solutions based on current and future state architectures and reference models Skilled in defining high-level requirements, guiding solution decisions, and providing architectural blueprints for engineering teams Proficient in Data and Analytics platforms, Intelligent Automation tools, Artificial