Solution Architect

Company Description

Why are we here?

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

You may not know our name but we can guarantee you know our work – all we do has a positive impact on life, health and the environment.

Eurofins is by your side every day; from the food you eat to the medicines you rely on. We work with the biggest companies in the world, making sure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

As a fast paced growing environment we are looking for natural born leaders that inspire passion in unique individuals and are not afraid to take risks in order to achieve goals.  Life at Eurofins is a meritocracy, where people are empowered to make decisions and are rewarded for their success. We encourage independent thinkers who challenge the status quo and never accept the market’s or the company’s “usual way of doing things”.

Job Description

We are looking to grow our Solution Architecture practice in TBD. 

As a Solution Architect in Eurofins you will:

• Perform solution design activities to deliver valid and viable architectures which include but are not limited to views supporting application components, integrations, application communications, and security;
• Provide technical leadership and initiative to deliver new and complex, high quality solution designs in response to varying business requirements;
• Take ownership of non-functional requirements specifications, including but not limited to performance, availability, resilience, budget and regulatory compliance;
• Communicate the solution to ensure stakeholders and management understand it to the appropriate level of detail;
• Challenge and validate/define the scope to ensure that businesses can take the right decisions for the organization;
• Support and contribute to the presentation of decision-making material for top-management; 
• Liaise with IT Security to manage risk of information and IT assets by applying appropriate standards and security policies;
• Incorporate knowledge of leading edge products and technology in conjunction with industry standards to achieve the required business results;
• Utilize a combination of Eurofins standard and custom solutions in support of developing complex, multiple year solutions;
• Abide by defined architecture principles;
• Be a key player within the organization, collaborate on innovative ideas and use proven approaches to deliver a winning solution. 

Qualifications

Required experience:

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience as Solution Architect for a major IT program involving multiple teams and/or projects, preferably in international context
• Experience with on premise/cloud hybrid environments
• Experience in designing Cloud/IaaS/PaaS/Serverless architectures
• Experience with architecture modelling using visualization models such as C4
• Demonstrated capacity to create professional architecture (significant decisions, roadmap, logical/physical viewpoints, etc..) and general technical documentation.
• Enterprise Architecture framework knowledge (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman etc.).
• Experience at the Enterprise architecture level or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience working with distributed teams or offshore teams is a plus.
• Engineering Degree or equivalent experience in IT and software development awareness is desired
• Knowledge/expertise in one or more of the following domains is required: Infrastructure/technology Architecture, SOA style and principles, Domain-driven design, REST, knowledge of different architecture/design techniques (i.e., OO, Top-down, structured analysis, component-based design).

Required personal skills:

• Strong computer, analytical and organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication (concise writing and orally convincing) and inter-personal skills
• Work in home/office hybrid environment with a minimum of 2-days per week in the office
• Capable to establish trust based on outstanding expertise with stakeholders
• Strong collaboration, partnership development, and relationship building skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects / tasks concurrently and drive them to completion
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and identify ambiguity and drive for clarity
• Ability to work in a complex international environment
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Very good communication and interpersonal relation skills in an international environment
• Ability to motivate and influence others
• Adaptability – Capable of adapting quickly to a complex distributed organization
• Initiative and independence - volunteers readily; Asks for and offers help when needed
• Detail oriented
• Willingness to travel to Eurofins global locations on occasions (10%)

Additional Information

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• A hybrid working setup; 
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged. 

Your application:

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

Want to know more about us?

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.