Associate Director for Architecture and Analytics Platforms, IT Data & Analytics

Whether it's the unique breadth of our integrated offering that covers Injectable Aesthetics, Dermatological Skincare and Therapeutic Dermatology products; or our commitment to recognizing and rewarding people for the contribution they make - working here isn't like anywhere else.

At Galderma, we actively give our teams reasons to believe in our ambition to become the leading dermatology company in the world. With us, you have the ultimate opportunity to gain new and challenging work experiences and create an unparalleled, direct impact.

As Associate Director for Architecture and Analytics, you will be reporting to the U.S Head of IT and will be part of the U.S Regional IT Team. The is a new opportunity for an experienced candidate to develop a deep understanding of the organizational, business, financial, operational, and commercial priorities to deliver business value through reliable, effective, and efficient data and
analytics solutions.

The Associate Director for Architecture and Analytics is responsible for the overall data & analytics solutions “Design, Deploy and Sustain” activities across Galderma, ensuring scalability, performance, reusability, compliance, and consistency, leveraging best practices in data ingestion, data modeling, integration, data science and front-end reporting.

Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Management

• Provide support and consultancy to central and regional project teams, IT Service Owners, Managed Services, and Application Support teams to ensure solutions are designed, delivered and sustained at the right level of integration, leveraging accurate and compliant technology

• Share design and solutions across functional areas and regions to ensure collaboration, and facilitate synergies

• Make sure solutions are designed to maximize both global and business ROI

• Ensure consistency of solution design across areas to support integrated reporting and analytics and to facilitate widespread adoption of use cases

• Manage the portfolio of "as is" and "to be" solutions, ensuring they are documented and communicated effectively.

• Act as the main point of contact for project, security, architecture, and infrastructure teams.

• Coordinate activities between internal/external resources for data acquisition, engineering, development, delivery and hyper-care/sustain

• Conduct design reviews for new solutions and major changes to existing solutions

• Identify and review gaps in capability, and validate options

• Exceptional ability to collaborate and work effectively with a diverse group of teams (either onsite or virtual), functional areas, and individuals

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment and to communicate across all levels of the organization

• Recruit, develop and grow a strong pipeline of platform engineering professionals.

• Provide budgeting and resources for projects

Data ingestion, integration and modeling

• Provide guidance and support for acquiring external/internal data for Analytics and data hub

• Provide requirements and priorities for data acquisition, establishing and standardizing the processes for loading and maintaining critical 1P, 2P and 3P data

• Oversee and manage resources

• Ensure consistent data models with clear guidelines for localization

• Ensure data is enabled at the right level of Integration

• Leverage existing data standards, and identify gaps in data standards and raise them to data and architectural leadership

Front-end Reporting Tools

• Govern tools and functionalities roadmap, and ensure that the front-end tools are correctly positioned, with the necessary capabilities to fully exploit them for key data and reporting initiatives

• Maintain and drive adoption of global templates and accelerators

• Enhance skills and capabilities in frontend solution design, user experience and data visualization

• Facilitate usage of solutions in front-end tools, including P