Healthcare Digital, Data & IT Senior Cloud Architect

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Your Role: Ready to shape the future? As the Senior Cloud Architect for Healthcare Digital in Data & IT R&D, you will design efficient, scalable cloud architectures for R&D. As the point of contact for the R&D business, you translate complex requirements into technical concepts. Your technical experience allows you to oversee the work of internal & external implementation teams and provide guidance & best practices. You bring hands-on project experience, ideally with continuous deployment concepts, across the Pharmaceutical R&D value chain. You are comfortable leading matrix teams in a fast-paced environment. You will be designing & implementing scalable, high-performance cloud solutions. You will collaborate with global stakeholders, including data engineers, business analysts, IT specialists, and domain users, to understand functional needs and ensure proper solution delivery. You will design & manage the Healthcare R&D system landscape according to our standards and capability maps. You will create technology blueprints, standards, and best practices, and provide troubleshooting & third-level support for Healthcare R&D systems. You will provide guidance & mentoring for team members and promote knowledge sharing. This position can be performed fully remotely from Portugal.

Who You Are

• You have a Master's degree in computer science or a similar qualification.
• You have a minimum of 6 years of experience as an expert in AWS cloud architecture.
• You possess in-depth knowledge of Snowflake's architecture and data warehousing concepts, ideally with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
• You have experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) based on Azure DevOps and GIT, ideally with a minimum of 3 years of experience.
• You have ideally 3 years of experience working in infrastructure-as-code expertise utilizing CloudFormation and Terraform.
• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience as an expert in container architectures, Kubernetes (esp. AWS EKS), and/or AWS ECS.
• You have strong SQL skills and expertise in SQL optimization techniques (optional).
• You are familiar with the development of data processing pipelines using Step Functions, Glue, Athena, and Lambda, e.g., by adding automated data health checks (optional).
• You have experience with ETL/ELT processes, data integration, and data governance (optional).
• You possess solid awareness of data security and compliance requirements relevant to the healthcare industry (optional).
• You have solid experience in application monitoring and health checks. You have solid knowledge of agile implementation methods and common project tools.
• You are proficient in English.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!