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.