Job Title: Lead Consultant - Veeva Vault (RIM & QMS) Senior Configuration Engineer

Career Level: E

Introduction to role

Are you ready to lead enterprise-scale Veeva Vault solutions that help accelerate how safe, effective medicines reach patients? In this role, you will guide how our regulatory and quality platforms evolve, ensuring they are secure, efficient and fit for purpose. Your work will translate complex needs into robust configurations and integrations that enable speed, compliance and confidence across the business.

As our senior configuration specialist and consultant, you will set direction while staying hands-on, shaping the roadmap for RIM and QMS and delivering high-quality releases. You will partner with global stakeholders and supplier teams to remove friction, automate where it matters and drive consistent standards across multiple Vault estates. Do you thrive on turning complex requirements into elegant, secure solutions that scale?

Accountabilities

• Technical Leadership and Consulting: Serve as a senior configuration specialist and Veeva Vault expert for partners across regions and business areas, advising on best practices and ensuring alignment to strategy.

• Requirements and Design Stewardship: Lead requirement gathering, feasibility checks and design reviews with business and IT stakeholders as part of a scrum team; act as a gatekeeper for design alignment and standards.

• Release Delivery Excellence: Drive Design, Build, Test and Deploy activities for regular planned releases and key platform initiatives, meeting commitments on quality, timelines and compliance.

• Vault Extension Engineering: Design and build Veeva Vault extensions to support custom business flows that address real pain points and improve throughput.

• Automation and Problem Solving: Identify and solve business pain points with a focus on automation opportunities that reduce manual effort and error.

• RIM and QMS Roadmap Leadership: Own and advance the delivery roadmap for RIM and QMS, working closely with supplier teams and business governance groups.

• Security and Controls: Ensure all system security and control procedures are implemented, maintained and continuously improved.

• Integration Simplification: Generate and implement ideas to simplify and streamline the integration landscape in line with established integration designs and patterns.

• Documentation Ownership: Maintain clear, current configuration specification documentation for both functional and integration configurations to enable repeatability and audit readiness.

• Collaboration with Veeva: Work with Veeva’s technical team on new requirements, API-related issues, security setup and functional configuration to keep the platform stable and evolving.

• Cross-Enterprise Collaboration: Collaborate across other Vault estates (e.g., Clinical, Quality), internal support teams and suppliers to drive reuse, consistency and shared learning.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated experience as a senior configuration specialist and Veeva Vault expert supporting RIM and QMS.

• Proven leadership of business requirement gathering, feasibility checks and design reviews with business and IT stakeholders in a scrum team.

• Hands-on delivery experience across Design, Build, Test and Deploy phases for planned releases and platform initiatives.

• Expertise in designing and building Veeva Vault extensions to accommodate custom business flows.

• Track record of solving business pain points with a focus on automation opportunities.

• Experience leading delivery roadmaps for RIM and QMS in collaboration with supplier teams and business governance.

• Strong knowledge of system security and control procedures with practical implementation experience.

• Experience simplifying and streamlining integration landscapes in alignment with integration design and patterns.

• Ownership of configuration specification documentation for both functional and integration configuration.

• Direct engagement with Veeva technical teams on API topics, security setup and functional configuration.

• Ability to act as a gatekeeper for design alignment and standards.

• Effective collaboration across multiple Vault estates and supplier ecosystems.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience across multiple Veeva Vault applications (e.g., Clinical, Quality) to drive reuse and consistency.

• Familiarity with life sciences regulatory and quality processes supporting RIM and QMS.

• Leadership in agile delivery practices, including backlog prioritization and release planning.

• Experience with integration patterns and API-centric architectures in complex enterprises.

• Evidence of driving automation within validated, compliance-focused environments.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management across regions and functions.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca

Here, your craft in Veeva Vault directly advances the development and delivery of life-changing medicines. We pair purposeful work with cutting-edge technology—from cloud platforms to data and AI—so you can shape modern, scalable solutions with the backing to move fast and do it right. We bring diverse specialists together to spark bold ideas, value kindness alongside ambition and give you the trust and support to experiment, learn and make a visible impact across the enterprise.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.