Head of academic technology job description

Behind every product sold by Roche is Pharma Global Technical Operations (PT). Starting with Phase I of the development process and continuing through to product maturity, PT makes lifesaving medicines at 11 locations, with the support of partners from around the world. Information (IT) and Automation Operational Technology (OT) teams are key in producing and delivering medicine to patients. The organization is currently undergoing a transformation towards digitalization, advancing fundamental elements to meet future needs, such as using new technologies.

The Site Head IT OT Oceanside offers a unique opportunity to shape the information and technology solutions in alignment with the Pharma Vision. Reporting to the Head of Manufacturing IT OT, you will be a member of the global IT OT Business Partner Network and deliver harmonized IT and OT solutions for the global PT Internal Manufacturing Network. In addition you will become a member of the Drug Substance Manufacturing Oceanside Leadership Teams.

As Site Head IT OT, you will be the driver of business opportunities enabled by information and operational technologies. As the business partner to the campus your focus is always on site priorities including Make Assess Release and delivering the pipeline of new products in alignment with network priorities. Being accountable for the end to end IT and OT landscape, you are the strategic interface for development of technology and processes, risk and relationship management. In addition, you take a key role in the digitalization of PT's global manufacturing network, which targets to deliver reliable services through standardization of the IT and OT environment.Your contribution will be fundamental to embed the new operating model and culture into the entire function. As PT endeavors a lean and agile way of working, you will be influencing and coordinating a growing, global contingent of employees in shifting mentalities and agile ways of working.

What you'll be working on:

• Provide strong inspirational, engaging leadership and coaching to direct reports and develop the next generation of leaders while nurturing a culture of agility and collaboration.

• Integrate with the end-to-end Make Assess Release (MAR) process of site.

• As accountable for the site IT OT Services and Product Portfolio, ensure overall production strategy and commitments are met, supported by a conducive environment for robust manufacturing execution and continuous improvement.

• In partnership with business colleagues, take a key role in identifying business opportunities and co-creating technology-enabled strategies in alignment with overall Manufacturing Site and Network level Themes & Epics. Facilitate continuous improvement of prioritized initiatives and operational processes, ensuring mobilization of needed resources and skills to advance the IT OT system life-cycle, including integration, deployment, upgrades.

• Accountable for cross-functional teams in an agile set-up, taking the role of advising, educating and challenging the status quo with a customer oriented E2E mindset.

• Catalyze organizational growth, negotiate and influence through being a coach, change agent, trainer, mentor and sounding board for team members.

The ideal candidate:

• Is a strong people leader who can inspire and engage the organization and align them to PT vision and strategy in close collaboration with the PT site Vice President and General Manager and their organizations.

• Has IT, OT and/or manufacturing business domain expertise in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, with an experience in Manufacturing and Technical Operations and an understanding of market challenges and competitive advantages.

• Proficient knowledge of pharmaceutical technology and processes (manufacturing, digital plant, Manufacturing floor systems, quality lab systems, data historians , automation systems in Manufacturing).

• Nurtures a business consultative and value driven partnership. Demonstrates executive presence, strong business acumen, navigates ambiguity and manages complexity.

• Well-networked. Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity, with a high degree of self-awareness, empathy and listening skills. Lives a speak up culture and promotes a culture of trust.

• Is a role model by living lean principles and embracing all aspects of digital and technology advances.

• Leverage empowered and diverse communities and focus on driving Radical Simplification and Pioneering for Excellence to deliver the greatest benefit to our patients.

• Approach to work with an agile mindset, i.e. good enough instead of perfection, focus on “Reuse before Buy before Make”.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent experience; Master/PhD is a plus.

• Highly developed people skills, demonstrating a clear commitment to people development and effective mentoring.

• 15+ years professional experience in global and complex business environments.

• 8+ years of people management and/or product management experience.

• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Special Skills:

• Change Management experience in creating a long term vision for an organization in alignment with business strategy and priorities.

• Entrepreneurial mentality with focus on continuous improvement, end-to-end thinker and problem solver, applying lean and agile methods.

• Excellent communication skills at both, a global and local level to technical and non technical audiences.

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Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.

Genentech requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of their start date. This requirement is a condition of employment at Genentech, and it applies regardless of whether the position is located at a Genentech campus or is fully remote. If you are unable to receive the vaccine due to a disability or serious medical condition, or because it is prohibited as a result of your sincerely held religious beliefs, you will have an opportunity to request a reasonable accommodation.

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KCRW will have in effect a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees beginning September 15, 2021. The mandate is subject to accommodation in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of high-performing engineers, product managers and designers.
• Coach team members on their day-to-day work and their career aspirations, conducting regular 1:1s for your reports, and evaluating their performance biannually.
• Manage the cross-functional team's projects, schedules and resources, fostering a healthy and high-performing team culture.
• Effectively support a distributed team through virtual and in-person collaboration and culture initiatives.
• Contribute to the recruitment, hiring and training of new team-members while fostering an inclusive environment.
• Shape the direction of our tech stack to ensure performance, ethical and scalable non-sponsored and sponsored technology in a rapidly-shifting media landscape.
• Build the best platform solutions for KCRW's listener community.
• Act as a decision maker after going through a process to understand the needs and challenges facing the team.
• Build platforms that enable DevOps practices so teams' feature releases can be faster and more stable in production
• Reduce the cognitive load of ownership and operations so that content teams can devote the majority of their time to creating world class content.
• Work closely with engineers to offer a "cloud-native" approach on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
• Establish quarterly team objectives and track performance aligned to overall business goals.
• Build and manage a quarterly and yearly roadmap that prioritizes impact and improvements to our editorial staff.
• Create and/or manage completion of all team documentation.
• Communicate strategy, project status, conflicts, and resource needs to management.
• Develop internal team processes and resources to improve quality and speed of product delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills; effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent experience, in lieu of degree.
• 10+ years leading platform or core engineering in a technical organization
• 7+ years of managing teams, managing remote teams is a plus.
• Proven ability to recruit and retain world-class engineers.
• Empathy, respect and thoughtfulness for your teammates and direct reports.
• Proven ability to create and support a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• Ability to proactively communicate and engage your team across multiple mediums (chat, video calls, email and code reviews).
• Experience working in a matrixed product organization, closely-coupled with designers and product managers.
• A comprehensive understanding of back-end development
• Experience with distributed systems, using standard AWS infrastructure services, such as ECS, Lambda, SNS, and Cloudwatch, or their equivalent in other cloud service providers.
• Meticulous documentation skills.
• Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.

Technical experience in the following areas:

• Cloud - AWS preferred
• Coding - Java, Scala, Javascript, etc.
• Data Query/Visualization - Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, etc.
• Experience in modern microservice architecture and able to build centralized tooling to support highly distributed teams.
• Expert with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development), cloud native development, public and private cloud capabilities, and Infrastructure and configuration as code.
• Has successfully enabled service teams to globally scale, preferably by leveraging AWS
• Experience with broadcast operations is a major plus.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Eligible for overtime and premium working holiday pay rate
• Sick leave award
• Vacation leave accrual
• Paid holidays
• Health insurance (including medical, dental, vision, FSA, life and AD&D) eligibility
• 403(b) with company match
• Passionate office environment surrounded by an incredible community of curious and talented colleagues
• KCRW is a qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program - read more here to determine your eligibility

KCRW aims to be representative of Southern California, and candidates with traditionally underrepresented backgrounds and perspectives are encouraged to apply. KCRW is an equal opportunity employer and actively recruits to promote diversity in our workforce. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.

The Head of Technology Governance & Architecture plays key role in the Technology Operations and Strategy with responsibility to lead and oversee the design and implementation of OneMain's enterprise architecture and technology risk management. This leader is a trusted advisor to senior IT leadership to ensure IT solutions meet secure design principles and that security is embedded in all enterprise IT architectural designs and roadmaps. This role will lead in the identification and selection of enterprise solutions to achieve the Technology strategy and vision.

The architect will create conceptual and technical design artifacts with emphasis on long-term technology planning. The architect will also evaluate enterprise IT designs for their alignment with the enterprise security architecture. The Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect has a demonstrated mastery in multiple security and non-security technology platforms, with the ability to both lead and advise on the overall designs and strategies of both security and non-security technologies. Leads the development, implementation and monitoring of a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program to ensure that the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information is owned, controlled or processed by the organization.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?

+ Create and manage large, complex, programs by leading teams to deliver, enhance, and operate solutions and drive integration

+ Manages a team of Technology Governance Leads who focus on activities related to the monitoring, measurement and reporting of adherence, compliance, adoption, and value commitments

+ Continuous engagement with Internal and External Audit and corporate risk and governance teams as required (SOX, Regulatory, Project) to obtain and/or provide guidance or direction and assist in a support capacity, as needed

+ Creates and implements related governance methodologies, and works with other Governance managers to analyze and develop policies, standards, processes and procedures for the Governance team

+ Implementing an integrated control transformation program for Tech

+ Develop operational support processes to ensure tracking service level agreements, assessing risks and maintaining, testing and auditing existing systems

+ Defines and coordinates the OneMain Technology governance to ensure the appropriate decision making and escalation processes

+ As such, leads coordination of the Information Technical and TOE Portfolio Committee meetings and processes and its sub-committee for IT policies and governance

+ IT Risk Management: Manages risk assessments, compliance, internal controls, forensic investigation, and the accreditation/certification of IT processes and products

+ Partnering cross-functionally with program stakeholders in the tech organization to provide strategic and tactical thought leadership while effectively driving project delivery

+ Facilitates and contributes to the creation of future state enterprise business and technical architecture models (such as process hierarchies, taxonomies, topologies as well as business capability models) to manage interdependency analysis with other projects or change initiatives

+ Provide thought leadership for major IT implementation decisions

+ Forecast enterprise technology investment needs for 1-3 years in line with security architecture roadmaps

+ Supporting the creation of executive-level presentation materials to support the communication of program-level information for various stakeholders

+ Drive finalization of risk category and subcategory framework

+ Use analytical skills to conduct Risk Process Improvement, Process Design & Process Excellence

+ Work with dynamic teams on Departmental Process Management & Execution

+ Consult with Executives to determine interaction model with Lines of Business to create positive relationships.

+ Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the adoption of new policies

+ Present Technology metrics and maturity indicators to senior executive leadership monthly.

+ Advise senior executive leadership on strategic initiatives and partnerships on risk indicators and right solutioning

+ Prepare architectural designs and strategies for key security investments as required • Lead in the evaluation of enterprise security technology platforms and products

+ Engage with key external vendors and partners to identify innovative solutions, keep abreast of security and technology emerging trends, and promote proof-of-concept trials of promising innovative solutions

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

+ Bachelor's Degree business or computer science or related discipline

+ Minimum of 8 years' experience as a lead engineer or engineering manager or enterprise IT solutions architect

Skills and Knowledge

+ Demonstrated mastery of multiple security platform categories

+ Demonstrated experience as lead engineer in solution design and implementation in a complex enterprise IT environment

+ Demonstrated knowledge of secure build and configuration standards in a highly regulated environment

+ Formalized training in industry-standard architectural frameworks and techniques

+ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Including a strong ability to create positive and professional business relationships with partner engineering and architecture teams across IT

+ Strong commitment to working as a team and providing excellent customer service.

+ Master's degree in business or computer science is highly desired.

+ Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, ITIL, COBIT and NIST

+ Strategic Management of Enterprise Processes and Technologies: Introduces and manages innovations in business processes and enterprise technologies to meet the strategic needs of its customers, while ensuring compatibility with existing technology and security requirements

+ Architecture certifications (SABSA, TOGAF, DODAF, etc.) are highly desired

+ Demonstrated architectural mastery in one or more financial-sector specific technology specialty -- payments systems, digital technologies, or international banking systems integration efforts

**Who We Are:**

OneMain Financial is the country's largest lending-exclusive financial company, a trusted name in lending for over 100 years. Since 2005 alone, we have looked beyond customers credit scores to lend more than $152 billion to 16.2 million people looking for simple, affordable loans.

With branches across 44 states, we're proud partners of the families and communities we serve. They turn to us to help meet important financial needs, including debt consolidation, medical expenses, household bills and auto purchases. It's all about doing the right thing - a mission that hasn't changed for more than 100 years.

**Benefits:**

Because we want our team members to bring us their very best every day, we believe they deserve the right opportunities and benefits. That's why we packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:

+ Health and wellbeing options for team members and their dependents

+ Up to 4% matching 401(k)

+ Tuition reimbursement

+ Continuing education

+ Bonus eligibility

+ Paid time off

+ Paid volunteer time

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OneMain Holdings, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identify, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.