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Director Solution Design and Engineering
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MedImmune
US
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Gaithersburg,
Maryland
Job Code - 02098
Position - See Job Description
Job First Active on: Monday, November 02, 2009
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Director, Solution Design and Engineering
Title: Director, Solution Design and Engineering
Location: MD, Gaithersburg - Corporate Headquarters
Req: 02098
If you have a driving passion for creating, managing, and optimizing resilient IT infrastructure and can deliver practical, sustainable results - MedImmune is interested in you. In return, we offer you the opportunity to build and lead a multi-disciplined team core to MedImmune?s IT team while developing your career as we grow our business and share in the rewards of success through a competitive, comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Position Overview
The Director of IT Engineering and Solution Design leads the solution team and has the ultimate responsibility for designing and building the core applications and network infrastructure to support MedImmune?s business needs. In addition to traditional IT infrastructure scope (e.g. LAN, WAN, Telephony); the application infrastructure encompasses everything from database and middleware solutions to the responsibility for optimizing networks and server utilization in a distributed environment.
By creating processes for anticipating and managing demand, this individual will be responsible for creating a resilient backbone infrastructure that can be leveraged for installing various business applications (Software packages and in-house developed applications).
This individual will manage a team of professionals who will work closely with the other teams within IT to:
? Design and implement an environment that supports the long-term IT strategy
? Design solutions while maintaining compliance with security and enterprise architecture requirements
? Anticipate and plan for the growth based on projected business needs
? Ensure the health and stability of the infrastructure through effective utilization of technical assets
As the manager of the Engineering and Design team, the Director must ensure that the appropriate mix of internal, outsourced, and external contract staff is in place to design and deliver the core infrastructure technologies and tools.
REQUIREMENTS - QUALIFICATIONS: Director, Solution Design and Engineering
Essential FunctionsLeadership? Demonstrate real-world, hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise class applications and traditional (LAN/WAN) infrastructure to support MedImmune?s evolving business needs? Demonstrate professional project planning, management, and execution techniques while managing multiple conflicting priorities? Craft reasonable and feasible project documents that address client needs, provide opportunity for IT to exceed client expectations and ensure that project can be completed within reasonable time and within budget? Provide project deliverable review to ensure quality standards are met and customers are satisfied? Conduct risk assessments and create mitigation plans for integrated solutions.Business and Technology? Real-world knowledge of past, current and emerging technologies and implementation scenarios across all of the following areas:? Desktop management ? Database and middleware? IT systems ? Networking (LAN, WAN)? Storage? Security ? Data Centers? Enterprise management? Understand MedImmune?s business and technology drivers and how they affect projects? Conduct business and technological analysis of all available technologies and design solutions closely matching internal clients business and technological needs ? Pro-actively identify opportunities to improve stability, supportability, scalability, and performance of the current infrastructure, and then develop the business case for implementation? Validate solutions for consistency with long-term strategy and compliance with corporate and regulatory requirementsTeam Management? Demonstrated ability to perform all managerial activities required for an internal IT team of up to 30 individuals, to include evaluations, training and development, employee retention, promotions, client satisfaction, and other administrative activities, as required? Experience in managing a team of engineers and solution architects on a project and/or managing complex projects? Identify skills and staff projects leveraging best available resources for tasks/project? Coach and mentor team members to encourage individual growth, maximizing active and productive time, and willingness to stretch beyond existing comfort zones? Manage and maintain accountability for IT outsourcing vendors and contractors across every stage of the project lifecycle (detailed design, build, test, deployment, and steady state operations)
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