Associate Director, Life Sciences and Health Care

TSV&A is responsible for assisting our global clients in answering their most challenging problems using 5 key pillars:

• Innovation & Tech Futures: Explore the latest technologies & build practical use cases in a hands-on approach, helping our clients reimagine their business.
• Enterprise & Business Architecture: Translate business vision into technology strategy to ensure foundational capabilities are in place.
• Transformation & Programme Architecture: Harnessing our expertise in EA & SA to set the strategic vision, create the blueprint for change as a precursor to driving delivery across programmes with complex interdependencies.
• Solution Architecture: Develop blueprints to implement a tailored solution that fulfils the strategy and provide technical assurance. Linking into Cloud, cyber, integration and much more.
• Architecture Acceleration & Transition: Provide guidance and support to establish, run and transition our clients' Enterprise Architecture function by developing our Agile Architecture PoV and Architecture function in a Box.
We are responsible towards our clients in formulating their vision, strategy, Technology perspectives and outputs. Our recent perspectives and outputs include:
• Tech Trends 2025
• LSHC Tech Trends 2026, Drive large, complex and innovative transformation programmes through the development and delivery of technology architecture.
• Combine strategic thinking, advisory skills, and hands-on architecture leadership to advise CxOs of some of the biggest and well-known LSHC brands globally
• Lead teams that deliver technology strategies and technology roadmaps
• Advise CTO/CIOs and board stakeholders on future technology investments and innovative technology solutions
• Lead definition and delivery of the client's architecture vision, as well as effective architecture options analysis & design decisions.
• Lead definition and execution of the client's architecture management, governance and assurance process.
• Lead the development of architecture methods and collateral to build architecture community and capability.
• Use architecture knowledge and skills to support business development, build external eminence and lead the planning and running of architecture learning and development initiatives.
• Lead large client engagements, with a strong market trends awareness around the architecture, digital technologies, and cloud platforms.
• Create propositions driving business development activities across the LSHC industry.
• Provide mentorship and build competence in TSV&A team in the areas of LSHC industry domain.
  Understanding and communicating LSHC trends and the evolving market/industry trends impacting businesses including pharma, medtech, biopharma, consumer and public health and the underlying implications for architecture and technology investments
• Breadth and depth of experience across the enterprise architecture domains: Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture
• Leading architecture workstreams on large-scale technology enabled business transformation programmes in LSHC industries, especially those underpinned by core technology modernisations (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Service Now, etc)
• Experience in providing advisory services to Board-level and C-suite stakeholders
• Experienced in capability development activities, such as team building, training, recruitment, career planning, staff assessments.
• Building external or internal eminence by contributing to thought leadership, methods, knowledge management, points of view, speaking at industry events, membership of industry groups or publications
• Leading diverse teams drawing together those with a wide range of capabilities and perspectives and demonstrating commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Must show risk awareness and sound judgment in the management of risk from both client and supplier perspectives
• Certifications in Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, LeanIX, ArchiMate and more), Cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP), Agile, ITIL, COBIT or any leading platform solution would be advantageous
  Our leading architecture group TSV&A (Technology Strategy, Vision & Architecture), is positioned at the crucial intersection of business, technology, and industry to help our global clients reimagine their business through the latest technological advancements, solving our clients' most complex business and technology problems and accelerating their IT modernisation and digital transformation journeys., Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
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