Executive Director, Technology & Architecture Services

BeiGene continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

BeiGene is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative drug therapies for the treatment of cancer. Global Technology Solutions (GTS) serves the BeiGene organization with infrastructure, systems, and services that provide the foundation, maturity, governance, and innovation needed to serve patients around world. BeiGene takes the approach that access to life-changing medicine has no borders, and technology affects this perspective by delivering a cloud-based backbone and SaaS systems for efficient delivery, growth, and maintenance, while positioning our staff to demonstrate their domain, technical, and governance expertise as partners of the BeiGene global team.

General Description:

The Executive Director, Technology & Architecture Services is the principal technology leader for infrastructure, operations, and architecture services at BeiGene. The Executive Director and their team will lead the enhancement and implementation of technology platforms and services while applying principles of innovation and efficiency.

As a member of the GTS Leadership Team, the Executive Director Technology & Architecture Services is an active contributor to developing and executing BeiGene’s technology strategy, defining necessary technology investments, and driving transparency in prioritization and planning. The Executive Director and their team are responsible for ensuring that strategy is fully aligned with business needs, positioning technology services to deliver and realize compelling business value.

The Executive Director closely manages the landscape of technology and solutions used to support business teams. They collaborate with other GTS leaders to identify risks, interdependencies, and opportunities to inform financial responsibility, robust planning, and reliable execution, to ensure adherence to BeiGene’s technology architecture, security & compliance, and system and project life cycle governance.

The successful candidate is a dynamic leader and business relationship manager who brings deep technology strategy and governance domain knowledge with a business-minded approach to running technology projects.  Deep experience in both on premise and cloud/SaaS environments, the ability to manage multiple projects across different functions in a global, geographically diverse environment are all critical success factors for this role. An ideal candidate will adapt communication and problem-solving skills to accommodate customers, partners, and staff to reach consensus, and build stakeholder relationships to ensure the technology landscape is aligned with the company's goals, ensuring it supports growth and innovation.

Essential Functions of the job:

• Lead and inspire a high-performing technology team, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Establishes and fosters relationships with business stakeholders and service providers
• Build and drive an operational strategy that meets the needs and requirements of the business and is aligned with global delivery teams
• Oversee activities relating to the engineering, design, development, implementation, testing and overall technical support to ensure the global IT infrastructure services environment meets the business needs of the company
• Manage and scale the cloud services and data centers to ensure uptime and manage growth in all BeiGene operating regions
• Lead & deliver the service capability transformation for cloud and internal systems, with focus on user-experience, resilience, performance, availability, and total cost of ownership
• Manage all aspect of Infrastructure and Support Services including: Incident Management, Configuration Management, Release Management, Change Management, Service Desk, Service Request Fulfillment, Asset and License Management, Identity Management, etc
• Partner with the CISO organization to establish and maintain robust cybersecurity measures to protect company technology assets
• Manage the technology budget effectively, allocating resources to maximize productivity and innovation
• Collaborate with other C-suite executives to align technology initiatives with overall business strategies
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage
• Ensure that the company complies with all relevant regulations and standards related to technology that supports the operations of a modern biopharmaceutical environment

Education Required: 

Masters (preferred) or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline in combination with relevant experience.

Qualifications:  

• 14+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure, architecture, networking, security and operations
• 10+ years of proven leadership success at a senior level, directing a team of director-level direct reports and associate-level staff
• Must have proven business and technology skills relevant to the domain, with success providing customer-oriented technology solutions
• Demonstrated experience influencing key stakeholders across the organization and within complex contexts
• In-depth knowledge of biopharmaceutical technology business solutions and their interdependencies
• Accomplished in building of teams and development of people, comfortable working with a broad cross section of people in direct and matrixed relationships
• Demonstrated success as a change agent leading significant transformational initiatives in organizations
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Key Competencies:

• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to communicate that inspires and motivates staff and maintain alignment with the technology and business strategy
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and execution skills
• Ability to build consensus, making decisions based on many variables, and gain support for major initiatives
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and practices, and how other enterprises are employing them
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic staffing plan that ensures the right people are in the right roles at the right time, and employees are highly engaged and satisfied
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to the IT staff
• High level of service and internal/external client orientation as well as driver of innovation for IT business solutions and operational efficiency

Competencies:

Ethics - Treats people with respect; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.

Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently.  Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time.  Follows instructions and responds to management direction.

Communication - Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.  Writes clearly and informatively.  Able to read and interpret written information.

Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.  Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Shares expertise with others.

Adaptability – Able to adapt to changes in the work environment.  Manages competing demands.  Changes approach or method to best fit the situation.  Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

Technical Skills - Assesses own strengths and development areas; Pursues training and opportunities for growth; Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills; Shares expertise with others.

Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.

Analytical - Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data.

Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully.

Project Management - Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget.

Travel: 

• Periodic domestic and international travel – Less than 10%

BeiGene Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communicates with Clarity

BeiGene is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are determined by several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, certifications, relevant education or training, and specific work location. Packages may vary by location due to differences in the cost of labor. The recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for a preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the listed range reflects the base salary or hourly range only. Non-Commercial roles are eligible to participate in the annual bonus plan, and Commercial roles are eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan. All Company employees have the opportunity to own shares of BeiGene Ltd. stock because all employees are eligible for discretionary equity awards and to voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Company has a comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. BeiGene does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.