Integration Architect

Job Description :

Digital & Process Excellence Team

Pharma/Life Sciences industry is making rapid strides in leveraging Digital & Analytics in to the business operating models. With rapid consumerization of technology, healthcare and life sciences players along with the regulators are now looking for novel ways to identify, engage doctors and patients to improve the health outcomes. We at Dr. Reddy's are driven by our purpose to accelerate access to innovative and affordable medication to patients in over 25+ countries globally. We believe that Digital, Data and Design would drive the next wave of innovation along with science and technology for the industry. To that effect, we constantly review and refine our technology and organization design to maximize the opportunity from this changing operating landscape.

OurDigital & Process Excellenceteam plays a critical role in enabling our strategy and business models with the right Digital & Technology backbone. From designing engagement platforms for our customers and partners, driving efficiency and quality in operations and expediting the research outcomes in our R&D - the team is tasked with bringing the thought leadership of leveraging technology for delivering business outcomes. The team, consisting of business consultants, product/program managers and technology architects, primarily operates as an internal consulting organization tasked with ensuring continuous process improvement and driving innovation.

Ready to join our exciting Digital Transformation journey

As a part of the team you would create world class solutions to meet unmet needs of patients across the world. Our charter has the following priorities -

• Reimagine Dr. Reddy's as a platform-based organization
• Create Digital solutions that help meet unmet needs of our customers and patients
• Define and Digitize World Class, Agile processes across the organization
• Create Data as an asset that brings competitive advantage

Job Description

• The Integration Architect will own the creation of Enterprise Application Integration roadmap and its implementation to deliver business value in alignment with the business strategy. He or she will build and manage Integrations as Products which enable an ecosystem of business opportunities
• He or she will own the entire lifecycle of the API/integration as a product and be responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders to identify and prioritize high value Integrations based on business benefits, for designing and building secure and robust integrations that meet the organization's technology standards and for adoption and life cycle support for the integrations including continuous improvements to stay ahead of market trends

Role Responsibilities

• Identifies and prioritises APIs/Reusable components/Accelerators based on strategic opportunities for business development and revenue growth
• Understands the data, process and application architecture of the business to identify interface points between applications
• Continuously engage with stakeholders across business functions and outside of the organization to identify emerging API & Integration needs
• Recommends technology standards, frameworks, principles to be used across all integrations in the enterprise. Drives design for a secure, efficient, and adaptable future state model
• Develop detailed functional specifications for Integrations
• Develop technical designs and solutions for complex integration problems and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for various integration and data solutions
• Conducts impact of technology or solution changes on integrations recommends options to achieve desired outcomes
• Maintains an API Catalog and provides oversight for the Enterprise Service Bus
• Owns the support and maintenance of APIs and interfaces across the enterprise level integration platforms. Ensures appropriate root cause analysis and timely resolution of issues
• Stays up-to-date with technology trends. Recommends opportunities to adopt new technologies for EAI so as to enable better cross functional/organizational process integration and improve performance, reliability, scalability and security
• Provide industry thought leadership through articles, blogs, webinars etc. develops intellectual property
• Keep Senior Management informed on emerging trends in API economy and the organization's capabilities in this space

Qualifications

• Must have a strong technical background and an simultaneously be able to think like a Product manager
• Proven success in delivering an API ecosystem and implementing integration platforms
• At least 4-5 years of experience as Integration architect with hands on work in design, development and testing of integration solutions across On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid platforms that include but not limited to platforms as SAP, Salesforce, Mendix, SharePoint, Google Cloud Platform services, AWS
• Hands on experience working on MQ, ESB and iPaas such as Magic, Tibco, Kafka, Mulesoft, Dell Boomi
• Hands on experience with API testing, publishing and management solutions such as Apigee, AWS gateway, Swagger, Postman
• At least 3 years of experience architecting and developing cloud applications
• 10 years of Software development experience spread across multiple tech stacks including .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript etc
• High level of competency with common Integration mechanisms and protocols such as REST API, Web Services, Database connectors, SFTP connectors, SAP PI integrations, SOAP, XML, JSON, idocs etc
• Hands-on-expertise in building highly scalable applications including the use of Microservices
• Experience in creating technology standards and reference architecture frameworks which address integrations of varied complexity in an enterprise
• Minimum of one Enterprise Architecture certification
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science
• Pharma experience a plus.
• Hands on experience with Magic ESB a plus

Desired Skills

• Leadership

• Highest personal and professional integrity and strong work ethics
• Ability to articulate vision of transformation efforts and a sense of mission
• Willingness to take change and provide direction
• Results orientation, willingness to commit to a direction and drive operations to completion
• Demonstrated ability to manage adversity and challenging situations
• Relationship Management
• Abilityto manage senior relationships across all the Business and Functional areas
• Has consulting skills including ability to communicate complex concepts and influence change or action
• Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships
• Ability to handle complaints, settle disputes and resolve conflicts and negotiate with others
• Collaborative team player orientation towards work relationships, strong culture awareness
• Project Oversight and Decision-ing
• Highly developed skills in priority settingand alignment of project priorities with Departmental strategy
• Ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable goals
• Ability to get to the heart of the problem and make sound and timely decisions to resolve problems
• People Management and Development
• Ability to develop people, skills in coaching, mentoring, and teaching on the job
• Ability to identify and recruit talent, including identifying right people for both technical and non-technical jobs
• Effectiveness in building trust, respect and cooperation among teams

Key Personal Attributes

• Good communication skills, reasoning and analytical ability
• Must be collaborative in approach and a team player
• Very good at networking and influencing
• Willingness to learn new concepts, tools and techniques related to the subject

About Dr Reddy's

Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd (DRL) is an integrated global pharmaceutical company, committed to providing affordable and innovative medicines for healthier lives. Through its three businesses - Pharmaceutical Services &Active Ingredients, Global Generics and Proprietary Products - Dr. Reddy's offers a portfolio of products and services including Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), custom pharmaceutical services, generics, biosimilars and differentiated formulations. The company's major therapeutic areas of focus are gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, diabetology, oncology, pain management and dermatology. Dr. Reddy's operates in markets across the globe..

Dr Reddy's Laboratories was incorporated in the year 1984 in Hyderabad. The company was established by Dr K Anji Reddy whose passion for drug discovery and his pioneering contributions led the way for making medicines affordable.

At Dr. Reddy's, we are constantly looking for opportunities that allow us to bring expensive medicines within the reach of millions around the world. The belief that Good Health Can't Wait inspires us to delve deep into understanding the needs of patients and do all that it takes to fulfil them.Good Health Can't Wait. These simple words describe the deep-rooted belief that drives us.

Good Health is always our goal. We see medicines not just as molecules, but as means to help patients regain their health. As a leader in the pharmaceutical industry, we realize our unique role we have the ethical and moral imperative to ensure good health can be delivered to those who need it, and to promote wellness among them.

Can't Wait reflects our commitment to act with speed to find innovative solutions that address the unmet needs of patients, and to accelerate access to much-needed medicines for people around the world.

Our belief is guided by our principles - Empathy and Dynamism - which provide both guidance for our current behaviour and inspiration for our future actions.