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Strong understanding of Pharma / Life Sciences business processes and technology landscapes.\n\nExperience designing enterprise-scale solutions involving cloud, APIs, data platforms, integration, microservices, and distributed systems.\n\nStrong understanding of data modeling, metadata management, taxonomy, ontology, semantic modeling, and knowledge graphs.\n\nHands-on understanding of GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration.\n\nExperience translating business problems into AI-enabled products and enterprise solutions.\n\nUnderstanding of data governance, master data management, data quality, lineage, and interoperability.\n\nFamiliarity with platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, knowledge graph technologies, API platforms, and enterprise integration platforms.\n\nUnderstanding of regulated environments, including GxP, validation, auditability, privacy, security, and data integrity.\n\nStrong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate architecture concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nAdditional Qualifications\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and successfully build consensus.\n\nProactive mindset to identify opportunities to enhance value and business processes, improve existing solutions, and manage technical debt.\n\nShift: CET time zone\nWho we are\nA healthier future drives us to innovate. 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