# Associate Director Historian and Visualizations

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Associate Director Historian and Visualizations is responsible for the lifecycle, reliability, and evolution of the AspenTech IP.21 historian, A1PE, and visualization platform.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the IP.21 historian, A1PE, and visualization platform roadmap, lifecycle plan, and technical priorities.

- Plan and coordinate platform upgrades, patches, infrastructure changes, and adoption of useful vendor capabilities.

- Work with manufacturing sites and Product Owners to understand common needs and translate them into scalable platform improvements.

- Partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Cyber Security teams to ensure the platform is secure, resilient, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.

- Coordinate validation and change activities with Computer System Validation and Quality teams in line with GxP and GAMP expectations.

- Act as the key platform contact for AspenTech, delivery partners, and contractors, ensuring quality delivery, clear documentation, and knowledge transfer.

- Promote common standards for historian configuration, data access, visualization, and platform monitoring across sites.

- Manage platform risks, obsolescence, technical debt, service issues, and dependencies, escalating material decisions when required.

- Track platform health, usage, reliability, and upgrade progress; measure value for manufacturing teams, for example, data-access adoption and time to insight; validate the value of a change before scaling it; and use these insights to guide priorities.

- Support continuous improvement of manufacturing data access and visualization while avoiding unnecessary customization.

- Co-create the product vision and value case with the business, including the expected business outcomes and how user adoption will be measured.

- Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modeling responsible use and following GSK's Responsible AI, privacy, and security requirements.

- Coach site and product-team peers in historian and visualization practice.

Basic Requirements:

- Bachelors in engineering, Automation, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

- Industrial historians and manufacturing data platforms, preferably AspenTech IP.21 and A1PE.

- Process data visualization, reporting, and data access.

- Platform lifecycle management, upgrades, and vendor coordination.

- GxP computerized systems, validation, and change control.

- Enterprise infrastructure, integrations, security, monitoring, and service management.

- Typically 7+ years of experience in industrial data, historian, manufacturing technology, automation, or platform delivery.

- Experience leading upgrades or lifecycle activities in a regulated or controlled environment.

- Experience working with manufacturing stakeholders, infrastructure teams, vendors, and external delivery partners.

- Ability to manage technical priorities, risks, and delivery across a global matrix organization.

- Experience using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, with an understanding of responsible AI, privacy, and security requirements.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Data Analysis
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Prioritization
- Product Development Research
- Product Roadmapping
- Project Management
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Software Development
- Strategy Deployment
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI) Design

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in engineering, Automation, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline
- Relevant training or certifications in AspenTech technologies, GAMP, computer system validation, ITIL, or cloud platforms
- Practical experience with an industrial historian or manufacturing data platform; AspenTech IP.21 and A1PE experience

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