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Associate Principal Automation SME
Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp · 🌍 Ireland - Dublin College Park
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About the role
Introduction to role: Are you ready to define and deliver secure OT Edge solutions that power autonomous manufacturing across a global network? In this Dublin-based role, you will shape how our control systems, equipment and data integrate with AstraZeneca’s wider digital manufacturing architecture, directly enabling faster, more reliable supply of life-changing medicines. You will provide the technical leadership that turns early concepts into robust, scalable, validated solutions, partnering across engineering, manufacturing, quality, IT and vendors. Imagine being the build authority responsible for making every integration resilient, compliant, and cyber-secure. Your work will reduce downtime, increase efficiency, and enhance data integrity across EMEA and beyond. Accountabilities: Automation Design Authority: Lead automation and OT design for assigned projects, ensuring compliance with engineering, automation, cybersecurity, data integrity and GMP requirements to deliver robust, audit-ready solutions. OT Scope and Architecture Definition: Define OT scope from early concept through detailed design and system selection, providing design assurance that enables secure, reliable integration with the broader digital manufacturing architecture. Lifecycle Delivery Leadership: Lead or support URS development, architecture reviews, technical bid evaluations, design qualification, FAT, SAT, commissioning, qualification and operational handover, delivering on scope, cost, schedule and quality. Secure Integration and OT Edge Enablement: Develop secure, scalable and reusable solutions connecting automation systems, manufacturing equipment and OT data to enterprise and manufacturing platforms, ensuring contextualised data, provenance and high availability. Supplier and Partner Management: Define scopes of work and handle outside service partners, systems integrators and technology vendors, driving timely, technically compliant work and strong supplier performance. Technical Governance and Risk Management: Own end-to-end technical delivery for assigned workstreams, managing technical risk across complex, multi-vendor projects and applying engineering governance to ensure consistency and control. Resilience, Supportability and Documentation: Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, maintainable, supportable and correctly documented across their lifecycle to simplify operations and accelerate recovery. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong partnerships across global engineering, manufacturing, quality, IT, project teams and vendors to align decisions, remove blockers and scale standards across sites. Essential Skills/Experience: Domain expertise in PLC/SCADA, DCS or industrial control systems across specification, procurement, integration, testing, commissioning and start-up. Experience delivering OT Edge or industrial integration solutions connecting control systems with manufacturing or enterprise data platforms. Understanding of OPC UA, MQTT, event-driven integration, asset models, contextualised data and data provenance. Working knowledge of secure and resilient OT architectures, including network segmentation, access management, remote connectivity, buffering, recovery and high availability. Experience applying engineering governance and managing technical delivery across complex, multi-vendor projects. Strong communication and influencing skills within geographically dispersed, matrixed teams. Working knowledge of GMP computerised systems, validation and data integrity requirements. Fluent English and a relevant bachelors degree, or equivalent experience. Desirable Skills/Experience: Pharmaceutical or regulated manufacturing, including API, biotechnology, formulation and fill, packaging, medical devices or laboratory environments.