Director, Digital Quality GMP Computer Oversight

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.   Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.   We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description   Key Responsibilities • Validation and assurance strategy • Develop risk-based validation or assurance plans based on intended use, GxP impact, process risk, system complexity, novelty, and supplier capability. • Define lifecycle deliverables, acceptance criteria, evidence expectations, roles, and approval requirements. • Apply critical thinking to focus effort on functions that could affect patient safety, product quality, record reliability, or regulatory compliance. • Use supplier documentation and automated evidence when suitable, complete, reliable, and approved for use. • Lifecycle execution and oversight • Lead or approve GxP assessments, validation plans, user requirements, specifications, risk assessments, traceability, test strategies, test evidence, summary reports, and release decisions. • Ensure requirements are clear, testable, risk-based, and traceable to objective evidence. • Oversee scripted, unscripted, exploratory, scenario-based, automated, and regression testing as appropriate. • Assess deviations, defects, residual risks, and corrective actions and confirm readiness before production use. • Ensure configuration, interfaces, data migration, reports, calculations, workflows, security roles, electronic signatures, and audit trails are adequately verified. • Validated-state maintenance • Provide assurance oversight for changes, upgrades, patches, releases, incidents, periodic reviews, access reviews, backup and restore, business continuity, and system retirement. • Evaluate change impact and regression needs using documented process and technical risk. • Monitor validation health, overdue actions, recurring defects, supplier performance, and inspection-readiness indicators. • Ensure archived data and records remain accessible, readable, complete, and protected throughout required retention periods. • Data integrity and electronic records • Assess controls for data creation, modification, review, approval, transfer, storage, reporting, retention, and deletion. • Verify appropriate controls for attribution, contemporaneous recording, original records, accuracy, completeness, consistency, enduring retention, and availability. • Ensure audit-trail requirements, review procedures, record ownership, metadata, and exception handling are defined and tested. • Supplier and technology assurance • Lead supplier assessments and determine how supplier quality systems, development practices, testing, certifications, and service controls may be leveraged. • Evaluate SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, platform, low-code, automation, analytics, and AI solutions for applicabl

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