Functional Architect

**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.

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** In a nutshell**

**Where you will be based and what business you will support**

**How can you help us?**

**Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Interact with stakeholders to map business requirements into functional solutions that optimally balance cost, speed of implementation, and value.
- Work collaboratively with Project Managers and Product Owners to create high-level solution designs.
- Develop functional design specifications and business process maps that document project plans, production systems.
- Identify, analyse, and communicate architecture and integration options and make recommendations to management.
- Design and maintain the functional domain.
- Design and maintain the necessary service contracts.
- Document best practices and solution blueprints.
- Ensure that designed solutions are successfully implemented.
- Ensure that designed solutions are conceptually aligned.
- Support the business in validating the solution.
- Train members of the team in the latest best practices and design approaches.

**What can we do for you?**

**We are offering the following**:

- A **competitive salary package**, including bonus and benefits
- ** Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities**:

- ** 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.

**Qualifications** Are you our kind of extraordinary?**

**Type and duration of previous experience**:

- 8+ years of experience in business or functional analysts’ roles or equivalent.
- Strong experience in Business and Functional Analysis (5 years or more)
- Good experience in Functional Architecture (2 years or more)

**Functional/Technical skills**:

- Detail oriented
- Excellent analytical, written and communication skills.
- Excellent hands-on experience in the Requirements management.
- Strong experience in domain-driven analysis
- Good knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture style and principles
- Deep working knowledge of UML
- Strong conceptual thinker, able to work at high level of abstraction
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work in a complex international environment
- Ability to motivate and influence others
- Ability to manage multiple projects / tasks concurrently and drive them to completion

**Language skills and level expected**:

- English (fluent) required.
- French/German appreciated.

**What else should you know?**

**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

**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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one labora