Director of Foundational Technology
Ascendis Pharma, Denmark

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Aug 30, 2021
Last Date
Sep 30, 2021
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Job Description

Do you want to play a key role in managing our foundational technology area? Can you ensure a stable operation of our global physical and virtual infrastructure, secure service delivery and support and build our capabilities to operate core cloud-based environments?

Join a fast-growing biotech company in a role, where you will work closely with the management team in Global IT to create the best operation of our cloud-based solution platforms.

Ascendis Pharma, a visionary and ambitious company, offers you an opportunity to become involved in the development of ground-breaking therapies in a clinical setting.

As Director, Foundational Technologies, you will, together with your management team,be leading our global group with the responsibility for the foundational technologies team to deliver platform services (PaaS and IaaS), product support and lifecycle management (e,g, MS Teams, SharePoint, Office365, ITSM, Azure DevOps), including 1st Line and on-site infrastructure operational support. In this position you will also be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships between our current sites in US, DE and DK, ensuring a global mindset.

You will join Ascendis Pharma Global IT in our Foundational Technology Team reporting directly to the CIO.

In Ascendis Pharma we are a cloud-first, minimal legacy systems environment. You will have excellent development opportunities in a very flexible environment where the way we do things here is open for discussion.

Your main responsibilities are:

  • Lead, develop and scale the Foundational Technology area including services, processes and people
  • Develop and enable technology roadmaps based primarily on Cloud technology and PaaS/IaaS
  • Together with your team, set strategic directions for our foundational technology roadmaps and ensure scalable and global presence
  • Define and implement the cyber security framework together with our cross functional cyber security team
  • Partner with internal IT and line of business stakeholders to anticipate infrastructure capabilities necessary for the scalable and sustainable growth of the company
  • Hire and develop people together with your management team
  • Develop a stable and scalable set of external vendors to support our global service setup
  • Budgeting and financial oversight for the foundational technologies area

The successful candidate has 10+ years of experience from solutions and service delivery, as infrastructure amp; operations manager, service delivery manager, project manager or something completely different. Ideally you have worked in a biotech, pharmaceutical company or consultancy catering to the pharmaceutical industry. You have:

  • A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management or similar
  • Ability to partner with Global IT teams and business stakeholders in Ascendis Pharma
  • Broad knowledge across infrastructure technologies and a strategic mindset
  • Experience with service delivery within infrastructure amp; operations
  • Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
  • Ability to lead people and excite teams to perform their best

As a person you are self-driven and ready to take responsibility from day one. You are agile at heart and more concerned about the results of your team than your individual success. Your approach is entrepreneurial and strategic, and you enjoy finding solutions that meet the business needs. You think on your feet and keep your composure when things move quickly.

You are proficient in English at a professional level, both written and spoken.

Last but not least, you have a good sense of humor and enjoy working across time-zones and cultures.

We offer an exciting and challenging position in an entrepreneurial and international company with a short line of command. You will be involved in activities that are central to Ascendis Pharma’s strategy and work with highly skilled and experienced colleagues on advancing an exciting product pipeline.

Travelling: Approx. 10-20 days/year


Place of work: Ascendis Pharma resides in a wonderful office facility in Tuborg Havn in Hellerup with a view of the harbor, the canals, and the sea. We also have facilities in Heidelberg, Germany, as well as Princeton and Palo Alto, U.S.A. . Your international mindset and virtual presence is important to our global community.

If you want to know more about the position, please contact Lars Pettersson on M +45 23 88 39 79 or . All applications must be in English and are treated confidentially.

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