Associate Director, Technical Product Management

MSD•Upper Gwynedd Township, PA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

DUTIES: Collaborate with CTO leaders and other API and Integration leads to identify the API and integration needs across the enterprise and help solve for these needs. Partner with other foundational platforms teams, enterprise architecture, networking and cloud computing and other teams to architect, design, implement digital services and products, as well as drive their adoption in (not only) divisional teams. Maximize value of the product across full lifecycle (from start to decommissioning where applicable). Drive optimization of TCO and ROI realization across the products and solutions. Develop business case(s) and investment plans in support of investments in the product, gain investment approvals and monitor and manage spend and ROI for the investments. Prioritize backlogs, roadmaps, identify and mitigate dependencies. Drive execution & successful delivery towards set OKRs. Lead (manage) global vendor relationships and cross-functional global agile teams implementing platforms or solutions (no direct reports). Engage with key stakeholders and API and integration area owners across the enterprise to understand the capability needs in this area, and support these needs and address them at resilient, core-service level. In collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and other teams, define API & Integration technology and governance standards relevant to the product and customize them to domains or locations where necessary. Plan and execute on transitioning services and projects to products where applicable. Engage with external partners and thought leaders to keep abreast of latest technology and trends in the API & Integration domain. Leverage this external perspective to influence the product and services and enable innovation to support IT teams’ API and integration needs. Develop and implement communications and marketing strategies to ensure awareness and education of the product. Monitor and enhance adoption and usage of the product and digital services. Build, grow and support the talent in the global team. Up to 10% international travel required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, or a closely related field and 8 years of experience in the position offered or related.
Requires 5 years of experience with all of the following: experience across software engineering lifecycle, including planning, design of ETL solutions, coding, debugging, testing, and architecture standards definition.
Working with distributed teams; facilitation, marketing and persuasion skills; and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Data integration and modeling technologies, with strong proficiency in Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and iPaaS, as well as extensive data integration experience with enterprise applications such as Workday, Salesforce, Veeva and SAP.
Designing, configuring, and managing data platform using DevSecOps tools such as Terraform, Github Actions, Ansible and Python, with experience in AWS architecture and its services – inclusive of EC2, EFS, FSx, Lambda, S3 and orchestration services and analytical databases.
Developing and delivering digital products and services leading cross-functional teams with large portion in life sciences domain.
Stakeholder management skills; conducting market analysis and user research.
Domain expertise in life sciences and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Building and provisioning engineering toolsets with high autonomy, automation, and self-service level; advising clients on related solutions and services; experience with ETL technologies and Cloud Databases.
Designing and building self service capabilities in the integration platform, automating deployments and workspace provisioning.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with CTO leaders and other API and Integration leads to identify the API and integration needs across the enterprise and help solve for these needs.
Partner with other foundational platforms teams, enterprise architecture, networking and cloud computing and other teams to architect, design, implement digital services and products, as well as drive their adoption in (not only) divisional teams.
Maximize value of the product across full lifecycle (from start to decommissioning where applicable).
Drive optimization of TCO and ROI realization across the products and solutions.
Develop business case(s) and investment plans in support of investments in the product, gain investment approvals and monitor and manage spend and ROI for the investments.
Prioritize backlogs, roadmaps, identify and mitigate dependencies.
Drive execution & successful delivery towards set OKRs.
Lead (manage) global vendor relationships and cross-functional global agile teams implementing platforms or solutions (no direct reports).
Engage with key stakeholders and API and integration area owners across the enterprise to understand the capability needs in this area, and support these needs and address them at resilient, core-service level.
In collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and other teams, define API & Integration technology and governance standards relevant to the product and customize them to domains or locations where necessary.
Plan and execute on transitioning services and projects to products where applicable.
Engage with external partners and thought leaders to keep abreast of latest technology and trends in the API & Integration domain.
Leverage this external perspective to influence the product and services and enable innovation to support IT teams’ API and integration needs.
Develop and implement communications and marketing strategies to ensure awareness and education of the product.
Monitor and enhance adoption and usage of the product and digital services.
Build, grow and support the talent in the global team.