Senior Director - Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture

BeOne 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.

General Description:

The Senior Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture is responsible for defining, leading, and governing the enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy across cloud, network, data center, end-user computing, collaboration, identity, and platform services. This role partners closely with cybersecurity, enterprise applications, business technology, digital, data, and regional IT teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities are scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities.

As a senior technology leader, this role establishes architectural standards, reference designs, roadmaps, and governance processes to support global growth, operational excellence, resilience, and innovation. The Senior Director provides leadership to architecture and engineering teams, influences technology investment decisions, and ensures infrastructure solutions meet enterprise requirements for performance, compliance, security, automation, and service continuity.

Essential Functions of the Job:

Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture

•     Define and maintain the global infrastructure architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.

•     Lead architectural planning across cloud platforms, network, compute, storage, data center, identity, endpoint, collaboration, and infrastructure services.

•     Ensure infrastructure architecture supports business growth, global scalability, regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and cybersecurity standards.

•     Partner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, application, data, and business technology teams to align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise technology strategy.

•     Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that improve agility, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Cloud, Platform & Modernization Leadership

•     Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms through cloud adoption, automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and service standardization.

•     Establish architectural patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including workload placement, connectivity, security, availability, and governance.

•     Support transformation from legacy infrastructure models to scalable, automated, and product-oriented technology services.

•     Ensure technology solutions are designed for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, compliance, and operational supportability.

Governance, Standards & Risk Management

•     Establish and govern infrastructure design principles, technology standards, lifecycle management practices, and architecture review processes.

•     Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with applicable company policies, security requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.

•     Identify technology risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, and architectural gaps; develop mitigation and remediation plans.

•     Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to embed security-by-design and resilience-by-design into infrastructure solutions.

Delivery Partnership & Operational Excellence

•     Collaborate with infrastructure operations, service management, cybersecurity, procurement, finance, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise technology capabilities.

•     Provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure programs, mergers/acquisitions integrations, site expansions, cloud migrations, and global technology initiatives.

•     Support vendor evaluation, solution selection, contract input, and strategic partner management for infrastructure technologies and managed services.

•     Promote standardization, automation, monitoring, and operational excellence across infrastructure services.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages infrastructure architecture and/or engineering team members, including performance management, development, coaching, and resource planning.
• Provides strategic and technical direction to direct reports, matrixed teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Supports recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development of team members.
• Ensures team members have the skills, tools, guidance, and resources needed to deliver high-quality architecture and technology outcomes.
• Promotes collaboration, transparency, and effective communication across global and cross-functional teams.

Computer Skills:  Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Visio, and enterprise architecture or diagramming tools. Strong familiarity with IT service management, cloud management, monitoring, automation, collaboration, and portfolio management platforms.

EducationRequired:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred.

Other Qualifications:

• Minimum 12 years of progressive IT experience, including significant experience in infrastructure architecture, engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise technology strategy, and global IT environments.
• Minimum 7 years of leadership experience managing technical teams, architecture teams, or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, data center technologies, identity services, endpoint platforms, collaboration technologies, automation, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security.
• Experience designing and governing hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, regulatory compliance, data protection, and business continuity principles.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps, architecture standards, reference designs, and governance processes.
• Experience working in a regulated industry preferred; pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Strong vendor management, financial acumen, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, align competing priorities, and drive decisions across global matrixed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Travel: Be adaptable to business trips as required per business need; require valid driver’s license in applicable countries

Salary Range Poland: 420,000.00 PLN - 525,000.00 PLN

Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Driving Excellence, Bold Ingenuity, and Collaborative Spirit, 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

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. BeOne 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.