ESE Technical Architect

Description

The company's IT organization works with colleagues across the business to serve patients and customers worldwide, acting as a business partner that proposes ideas and solutions for new organizational capabilities. The team works internationally to deliver services that boost productivity and support innovation.

The company is looking for a Technical Architect to help secure, modernize and scale its digital ecosystem, enable smooth data flow, speed up delivery, work closely with product teams, and keep technology spending aligned with business goals. The role leads the design of holistic, scalable and reusable solutions, works to reduce technical debt, and drives discovery and architecture work on key initiatives.

As Technical Architect for the External and Scientific Engagement (ESE) Product Line, you will set and carry out a unified technology strategy to improve platform efficiency, encourage innovation, and get the most business value across the line. You will define, govern and build the architecture for several products and platforms linking drug development, medical affairs and commercial units.

The ESE Product Line works with the Value & Implementation organization on technologies that support medical affairs and outcomes research. It also works with the Scientific Communications & Information Sciences organization to build modern tools that give healthcare providers and patients worldwide trusted scientific and medical information. The product line sits within the Digital Development Capabilities Value Team, part of the Clinical Development and Digital Solutions organization.

Responsibilities

• Set the technology strategy and roadmap, defining conceptual, logical and technical architecture across the product line.
• Assess technologies and track emerging industry trends to drive innovation and adoption of modern best practices. Build and maintain reusable design patterns and reference architectures.
• Work with enterprise IT teams to find capability gaps, align roadmaps, and reuse enterprise platforms and services wherever possible.
• Lead the adoption of enterprise architecture standards and best practices, giving technical direction for scalable, high-quality solutions.
• Build strong relationships and keep technical teams, business leaders and technology leaders communicating so decisions get made well.
• Review requirements and architectures to confirm the right technology choices and efficient use of resources.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years as a Technical or Solution Architect.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed, cloud-native architectures.
• Experience turning business vision into technology roadmaps and target-state architectures.
• Proven ability to create and standardize architecture patterns, blueprints and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Solid knowledge of APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns and messaging technologies.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, search platforms and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture governance, standards and shared platforms.
• Skilled in technology evaluations, vendor assessments and proof-of-concept development.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), site reliability and security practices.
• Ability to weigh architectural rigor against business priorities, delivery timelines and technical debt.
• Experience optimizing cloud, infrastructure and operational costs.
• Ability to clearly work through complex architectural trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and business audiences.
• Proven ability to mentor teams, build consensus and lead complex technical initiatives.
• Preferred: professional certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect or TOGAF.
• Preferred: architecture experience in regulated industries such as Life Sciences, Healthcare or Pharma.
• Preferred: experience integrating AI/ML, Generative AI, Enterprise Search and Analytics.
• Preferred: a proven track record modernizing legacy platforms into microservices and modern architectures.
• Preferred: strong expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Agile/Scrum delivery.

Conditions

Regular employee position, hybrid working model with a flexible role pattern.

Travel requirement: 10%.

Shift: 1st day.

No relocation support.

No visa sponsorship.

No valid driving license required.

No hazardous materials involved.

Job posting ends 11/7/2026; apply by the day before, as the posting closes at 11:59:59 PM that day.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and incentive pay.
• Pension and health insurance contributions.
• Internal reward system and referral scheme.
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements each year, 40 paid hours a year for volunteering, and 12 weeks of parental contribution.
• Cafeteria of tax-free benefits to choose from (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel and more), plus a Multisport Card.
• Discount programmes with Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora.
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone.
• On-site perks: parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, a library and a music corner.
• Global projects in an international team, with room to learn and grow across the company.