Assoc. Dir. Data & Analytics Manufacturing

The purpose of the role is to lead the end-to-end delivery of manufacturing analytics applications that contain GEN AI, AI and/or other advanced analytics components, requires hands on management as well as consulting on advanced analytics topics for business customers.

Ensure development runs smoothly, drive continuous process improvement, cooperate with various teams along the solution delivery value chain. Support project and solution delivery managers with needed content for meetings and team events. Interact with all relevant stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery with up to standard designs. Usual stakeholders are: architecture teams, data scientists, DevOps, Security, Integration Factory, Infrastructure teams, Platform support teams, Quality assurance team members as well as Product Owners.

About The Role
Major accountabilities:

• Design and manage the development of modular, reusable, elegantly designed and maintainable software that supports the Quality organization as well as strategic initiatives.
• Be hands on, solution driven and customer focused. Develop and maintain the code repositories for which you are responsible and respond rapidly to bug reports or security vulnerability issues.
• Embody and integrate software development best practices into your everyday work and inspire others within the engineering community to emulate these practices.
• Collaborate extensively with your colleagues across Security, Compliance, Engineering, Product Management, Product Service Management and Business Management.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of prior programming experience in a professional environment, building applications across platforms.
• Experience in customer facing IT roles
• Strong data engineering fundamentals in data management, data analysis, back end system design.
• Preferred experience with Data & Analytics solutions
• Previous experience with AI/GenAI initiatives are a big plus.

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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