Director, Solution Design and Engineering

About the Organization My company shares my passion for helping to improve human health around the world." "This is My MedImmune." Those who join MedImmune feel a sense of ownership about their future. They thrive with a recognized leader in the biotechnology industry and the wholly-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca plc. Here, you will join passionate professionals who advance science, technology and medicine to develop products designed to help people live better lives. You will excel in an environment characterized by respect, integrity and growth opportunities• that encourages both individual contribution and collaborative entrepreneurial thinking. Our products and/or product candidates are designed to address areas of need in infection, oncology, respiratory disease and inflammation, cardiovascular/gastrointestinal disease and neuroscience. Explore a MedImmune career as we strive to better more lives, more often, around the world. Description Title: Director, Solution Design and Engineering Location: MD, Gaithersburg - Corporate Headquarters Req: 02098 If you have a driving passion for creating, managing, and optimizing resilient IT infrastructure and can deliver practical, sustainable results - MedImmune is interested in you. In return, we offer you the opportunity to build and lead a multi-disciplined team core to MedImmunes IT team while developing your career as we grow our business and share in the rewards of success through a competitive, comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Position Overview The Director of IT Engineering and Solution Design leads the solution team and has the ultimate responsibility for designing and building the core applications and network infrastructure to support MedImmunes business needs. In addition to traditional IT infrastructure scope (e.g. LAN, WAN, Telephony); the application infrastructure encompasses everything from database and middleware solutions to the responsibility for optimizing networks and server utilization in a distributed environment. By creating processes for anticipating and managing demand, this individual will be responsible for creating a resilient backbone infrastructure that can be leveraged for installing various business applications (Software packages and in-house developed applications). This individual will manage a team of professionals who will work closely with the other teams within IT to: ? Design and implement an environment that supports the long-term IT strategy ? Design solutions while maintaining compliance with security and enterprise architecture requirements ? Anticipate and plan for the growth based on projected business needs ? Ensure the health and stability of the infrastructure through effective utilization of technical assets As the manager of the Engineering and Design team, the Director must ensure that the appropriate mix of internal, outsourced, and external contract staff is in place to design and deliver the core infrastructure technologies and tools. Position Requirements Essential Functions Leadership ? Demonstrate real-world, hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise class applications and traditional (LAN/WAN) infrastructure to support MedImmunes evolving business needs ? Demonstrate professional project planning, management, and execution techniques while managing multiple conflicting priorities ? Craft reasonable and feasible project documents that address client needs, provide opportunity for IT to exceed client expectations and ensure that project can be completed within reasonable time and within budget ? Provide project deliverable review to ensure quality standards are met and customers are satisfied ? Conduct risk assessments and create mitigation plans for integrated solutions. Business and Technology ? Real-world knowledge of past, current and emerging technologies and implementation scenarios across all of the following areas: ? Desktop management ? Database and middleware ? IT systems ? Networking (LAN, WAN) ? Storage ? Security ? Data Centers ? Enterprise management ? Understand MedImmunes business and technology drivers and how they affect projects ? Conduct business and technological analysis of all available technologies and design solutions closely matching internal clients business and technological needs ? Pro-actively identify opportunities to improve stability, supportability, scalability, and performance of the current infrastructure, and then develop the business case for implementation ? Validate solutions for consistency with long-term strategy and compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements Team Management ? Demonstrated ability to perform all managerial activities required for an internal IT team of up to 30 individuals, to include evaluations, training and development, employee retention, promotions, client satisfaction, and other administrative activities, as required ? Experience in managing a team of engineers and solution architects on a project and/or managing complex projects ? Identify skills and staff projects leveraging best available resources for tasks/project ? Coach and mentor team members to encourage individual growth, maximizing active and productive time, and willingness to stretch beyond existing comfort zones ? Manage and maintain accountability for IT outsourcing vendors and contractors across every stage of the project lifecycle (detailed design, build, test, deployment, and steady state operations) Educational Requirements Minimum Qualifications ? Bachelors Degree, Masters preferred ? 15+ years of related work experience ? Experience managing diverse and distributed 10-50+ person teams ? Experience with managing large vendor outsourcing arrangements ? ITIL Foundation Level Certification ? Extremely motivated and driven ? People management skills ? Excellent communication and internal client-facing skills (written and verbal) ? Outstanding analysis and creative problem solving skills ? Must be authorized to work for any US employer ? Ability to Travel About MedImmune, Inc. Founded in 1987, MedImmune strives to provide better medicines to patients, new medical options for physicians, rewarding careers to employees, and increased value to shareholders. Dedicated to advancing science and medicine to help people live better lives, the company is focused on the areas of infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases. The company has four marketed products and an advancing pipeline of promising candidates, all designed to treat or prevent a number of debilitating or life-threatening diseases. With revenues exceeding $1.2 billion USD and more than 2,000 employees worldwide, MedImmune is headquartered in Maryland with facilities in Pennsylvania, California, Kentucky, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The companys marketed products include Synagis® (palivizumab), Ethyol® (amifostine), and FluMist® (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal), with additional products in clinical testing. For more information visit www.medimmune.com. In June 2007, AstraZeneca completed the acquisition of MedImmune through a short-form merger with MedImmune becoming an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca. This acquisition creates a fully integrated biologics and vaccines business capable of delivering a greater number of new products to patients in priority areas over many years. Company Info None Specified

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Category:	Engineering
	> Other Engineering
Location:	Gaithersburg, MD
County:	Montgomery County
ZIP Code:	20877
Pay Rate:	Open
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	MedImmune Inc.
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