Solutions Architect

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”.

How can you contribute?

We are looking to bring great engineers, business analysts and technologists into the business to build and grow an organization with a start-up spirit, to implement world- class software solutions and the strongest IT foundation possible for a business with an enormous global footprint.

As a Solutions Architect, you will pilot new technology and deliver specific software components and libraries to help Eurofins move forward on its Service Oriented Architecture journey. You will coordinate the analysis of the business requirements and their impacts on the applications, and ensure that the business requirements are consistently implemented in all applications.

Other key functions related to your role as a Solutions Architect will include:

• Take the lead to gathering of global requirements for transversal libraries
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers and Business Analysts to create high-level functional designs that will guide the development teams
• Design the functional/solution architectures based on functional and non-functional requirements
• Define, govern, and implement software development best practices
• Coordinate with the architects of other programs in order to ensure that the roadmaps are functionally aligned
• Ensure the alignment with the global functional architecture
• Defining solutions taking into account the Enterprise Architecture strategies. Collaborate with the Enterprise Architects in order to apply the corporate guidelines and to ensure that the libraries are aligned with the future architecture state
• Coordinate with the Senior Developers for the design of technical solutions
• Document solution architecture and ensure the design is understood and implemented
• Ensure of the integration with the corporate applications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You will have over 10 years experience in software development and delivery coupled with solid design/development experience. You will have worked with large/complex applications with a particular focus on the Microsoft technology stack (with a particular focus on the Microsoft technology stack (.net, SQL Server, Azure DevOps).

Ideally you have 3+ years of experience as Solution Architect with orientation toward Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a major IT program involving multiple development teams and applications. With different architecture/design techniques advanced knowledge (i.e., OO, Top-down, structured analysis, component-based design).

In addition, we are looking for strong communication, analytical, organisational, partnership development and collaboration skills. Someone who can influence architecture, able to work in a complex international environment and wok effectively under pressure.

Other have experience will include:

• Strong experience in domain-driven analysis and design
• Deep knowledge of UML
• Knowledge of REST architecture style and principles is an asset
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery and associated tools and techniques
• Experience with Agile software development is required
• Enterprise Architecture frameworks knowledge (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman etc.) is a plus
• Experience in working with distributed teams or offshore teams is a plus

This role would require ability to travel up to 10% within the EU (assuming COVID situation allows)

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 works 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 the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins 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. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.