Cloud Solutions Architect

Company Description
**_
Why are we here?_**

You may not know our name but we can guarantee you know our work - all we do has a positive impact on life, health and the environment.

Eurofins is by your side every day, from the food you eat to the medicines you rely on. We work with the biggest companies in the world, making sure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

As a fast paced growing environment we are looking for natural born leaders that inspire passion in unique individuals and are not afraid to take risks in order to achieve goals. Life at Eurofins is a meritocracy, where people are empowered to make decisions and are rewarded for their success. We encourage independent thinkers who challenge the status quo and never accept the market’s or the company’s “usual way of doing things”

**Job Description**:
We are looking to grow our Architecture practice in Europe.

As a Cloud Solutions Architect in Eurofins you will:

- Develop cloud architectures that are comprised of but not limited to IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
- Provide technical leadership and initiative to deliver new and complex, high quality cloud 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
- 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 cloud solutions
- Abide by defined cloud architecture patterns and principles
- Be a key player within the organization, collaborate on innovative ideas and use proven approaches to deliver a winning solution.

This role might require travelling to Eurofins global locations on occasions (10%)

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**Qualifications**:
**Required experience**:

- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience as Solution Architect for a major IT program involving multiple teams and/or projects, preferably in international context
- Minimum 5 years of general experience in Multi Cloud Environments, Azure, AWS, GCP with a single speciality
- Vendor specific solution architect certification(s) such as Azure or AWS
- Experience with on premise/cloud hybrid environments
- Experience in designing Cloud/IaaS/PaaS/Serverless architectures
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
- 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.).
- Experience at the Enterprise architecture level or equivalent is a plus
- Experience working with distributed teams or offshore teams is a plus
- Engineering Degree or equivalent experience in IT and software development awareness is desired
- Knowledge/expertise in one or more of the following domains is required: 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

Additional Information

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, he