What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Architecture & Engineering position at ZS?
ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, our most valuable asset is our people. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.
Our most valuable asset is our people.
At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and
make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.
ZS’s Digital and Technology group focuses on driving end to end Digital Transformation that includes Digital Strategy, Human centered Design, exploiting emerging technologies, and purposeful change management to improve customer and company results. The types of solutions include Digital Strategy and Advisory services, end to end Transformation Management, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, Intelligent Automation, reimagining business processes with digital first lens and building Digital Products, Solutions and Digital Platforms leveraging Big Data Technologies, AI/ML and Advance Analytics, Digital Platform configuration and integrations. We provide a complete spectrum of technology solutions, from strategy and roadmap definition to full scale implementation and on-going operations. Our team possesses deep expertise in leading digital transformation, enterprise data analytic and AI, Data science and advanced analytics and building end to end digital.
Technical Cloud Advisory Manager
ZS's Technology Advisory Group ensures our future information, technology and architectural landscape is built to plan and evolve as our business grows, striving to balance future-proofing our end-to-end technology stack while accelerating the speed of innovation and streamlining the delivery of business capability. This role will be responsible for supporting the growth and development of our Technology Advisory Practice within the ZS Technology Services business.
The successful candidate will work closely with ZS practice leadership and be responsible for evolving our practice, enriching our practice assets and collaterals, building, and managing client relationships, generating new business engagements, and providing thought leadership in the Technology and Architecture Area. This role will report to the Executive Director(s) and co-lead and co-share responsibilities with the Senior Director(s) in the practice.
What You’ll Do
- Delivering high-quality architecture services aligned with regional nuances of data standards, regulations & client specific IT standards
- Drive technical architecture and design discussions with internal and client groups to brainstorm and finalize technology solutions
- Providing excellent support to client leadership and participating in business development activities; developing client proposals and high impact client presentations
- Design robust and scalable solutions consistent with ZS and industry practices; take advantage of the existing assets and maintaining a balance between architecture requirements and specific client needs
- Collaborate with the Architecture & Engineering expertise centre leadership to define technology roadmap and work with delivery team to put together a plan for technical implementation with and stay on track
- Stay current on latest technology trends and architecture patterns, and lead the effort to develop ZS POV for strategic decision-making
- Advance ZS’ technology offerings by innovating and scaling tech assets, driving feasibility analysis to select technologies/platforms that provide the best solution
- Groom junior team members and maintain a culture of rapid learning and explorations to drive innovations / POCs on emerging technologies and architecture patterns
- Executing projects in CxO Advisory, Industry Sensing & Trendspotting, and Value-Driven Technology Investments
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor's degree with specialization in Computer Science, IT or other computer related disciplines
- 8 years of relevant experience in designing semantic architecture at an enterprise-scale
- Build trusted & enduring relationships with client & ZS stakeholders
- Strong engineering mindset to build highly available and robust architecture frameworks, technology solutions and reusable assets
- Strong background in Tech strategy, digital transformation, digital architecture and cloud advisory services
- Proven track record in participating in business development activities driving and creating high impactful proposal & presentations
- Excellent communication skills, leadership skills and team management skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Strong understanding of the US market & the regulatory compliance requirements relevant to life-sciences domain
- Experience in identifying right product, utilities and tools from the market and build quick POVs for implementation/adoption
- Experience in scaling technology solutions aimed at solving complex business problems using semantic technologies preferably Knowledge Graphs and Ontology Engineering
- Knowledge of all phases of solution development for large-scale solutions and experience working in agile teams with short release cycles
- Strong technical team leadership, mentorship and collaboration
- Experience with service offerings such as Digital transformation, Tech Strategy, Digital Modernization Strategy, Platform, Data, and Analytics Architecture Strategy, and Tech Performance Optimization and Simplification