Novartis Pharmaceuticals Hiring for Solution Factory Manager – DevOps at Hyderabad, AP, India Full Time

326973BR Job ID: 326973BR Job Description: 2021 is an exciting year for Novartis as we accelerate our growth in the digital space. Healthcare Professionals and Patients will be impacted by our internal agile teams who will co-create solutions for some of the most innovative therapies on the market. This is an exciting opportunity for you to shape how digital services are designed and delivered in a high impact environment, helping us to reimagine medicine. • Understand the business strategy for products in your scope and connect this to the release and deployment strategy that you will craft • Align platform and product release to a global release plan and calendar. Govern this portfolio ensuring a timely release of products • Develop release management specialists as part of product squads aligned to DevOps principles through coaching, training and knowledge sharing • Scale product and platform release management capacity, including people and associated processes, ensuring standardization and adoption of our enterprise grade tools at all times. Become a specialist in the deployment and support phases of all products in your scope • Continually drive continuous improvements through the service and be responsible for the results Design, implement and run the associated governance frameworks. Handle senior partners throughout the release management process ensuring relationships are run effectively • Ensure that all work delivered is to the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. Maintain alignment between the release management capability in the product squads and any related strategic initiatives, influencing the ways of working of both parties • Maintain alignment with CoE management in terms of strategy, process and tooling. Position Title: Solution Factory Manager – DevOps Minimum requirements: • Graduation / post-graduation in the relevant domain. • 15 – 18 years’ experience in platform and product release management. Developing teams within IT environments • 10+ years delivering releasing products in agile, scaled agile and or DevOps environment • Professional background in Life Sciences, Salesforce, Veeva, Patient programmes, CRM projects or an equivalent area. Shown understanding of release management processes and tools • Strong partner management and/or business consulting skills. Specialist ITIL / Agile / GxP, analytical and problem solving skills • Highly diligent, outstanding attention to detail and strong follow-up skills. Ability to work with others in a high paced, fluid, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team • Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all management levels. Business proficient in English (written and spoken) WHY NOVARTIS? 769 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2020, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives. We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what’s possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying! Imagine what you could do here at Novartis! Job Type: Full Time Country: India Work Location: Hyderabad, AP Functional Area: Information Technology Division: CTS Business Unit: IT NBS Employment Type: Regular Company/Legal Entity: Nov Hltcr Shared Services Ind Shift Work: No Early Talent: No