Solution Architect

About the role

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 supporting application components, integrations, application communications, and security.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 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.);
• Knowledge/expertise in one or more of the following domains: 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;
• 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

• The following skills are an advantage:
• Experience at the Enterprise architecture level;
• Experience working with distributed teams or offshore teams;
• Engineering Degree or equivalent experience in IT and software development awareness is desired.