Solution Architect - DIA R&D

Description

The company is a healthcare and diagnostics business with a large global workforce, and this role sits within its R&D area for diagnostics.

The Solution Architect designs business-driven, standards-based and future-ready solutions for a specific solution context, manages non-functional requirements and fitness functions, keeps the product's technology roadmap current, gives technical oversight to product teams, and assesses new technologies to improve existing solutions and reduce technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities and enterprise standards within a defined solution context.
• Manage non-functional requirements and fitness functions.
• Document the architecture and evolve it across the product life cycle, working with the architecture community on governance.
• Solve complex problems by looking at existing solutions from a new angle and judging from several sources of information.
• Keep the vision, roadmap and current landscape for the solution up to date.
• Assess and advise on how initiatives affect capabilities, risk and the application landscape, including their dependencies.
• Create conceptual and logical data models, taxonomies and ontologies for the solution and its interfaces.
• Define and lead reference architectures and patterns, and make sure Architecture Decision Records are properly written up.
• Explain difficult or sensitive information clearly and build agreement among stakeholders.
• Share information about the solution across stakeholders.
• Maintain the product's technology roadmap and give product teams technical guidance on specific technologies.
• Improve existing solutions, reduce technical debt, and research, evaluate, pilot and drive adoption of new technologies.
• Look for ways to add value and improve business processes.
• Work mainly within one defined solution context, bringing general knowledge plus deep expertise in one or two technology areas.
• Contribute in a modest but useful way to architecture practice development and mentoring.

Requirements

• Show proven experience designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions for a specific solution context.
• Show experience keeping the vision, roadmap and current landscape for technical solutions, and judging how initiatives affect risk and the application landscape.
• Have general knowledge and in-depth knowledge in one or two technology areas.
• Be skilled at building conceptual and logical data models, taxonomies and ontologies for solutions and interfaces.
• Be able to define and lead reference architectures, patterns, NFRs and fitness functions.
• Be strong at tracking external technology trends and testing whether they fit the solution, including running vendor assessments.
• Communicate well and manage stakeholders, explaining sensitive information and building consensus.
• Take a proactive approach to finding ways to add value, improve business processes and existing solutions, and manage technical debt.
• Pharma experience (GxP, CSV and similar) is an advantage.
• Fluent English.

Conditions

The expected base salary for this role in Warsaw Grafit is 170,100.00 PLN to 315,900.00 PLN. The final figure depends on skills, experience, qualifications and location.

The role may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a 15% target, based on individual and company performance.

Details of how pay and rewards work are available on the company's site.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Gross salary range of 14,100 to 26,300 PLN under the employment contract.
• Annual performance bonus with a 15% target.
• Private healthcare through LuxMed packages, group life insurance through UNUM, and a Multisport card.
• Recharge Fridays: 2 Fridays off per quarter.
• Take Time Program: up to 3 months of leave for any purpose.
• Flex Location: work from different places around the world for set periods.
• Take Time for Charity: up to 2 weeks of additional paid leave for a charity of your choice.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company equipment, and more.