Senior IT Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Job Description

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 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 believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 47,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. 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, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2019, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 4.56 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

The Senior IT Enterprise Architect will support the management and evolution of an application landscape serving a wide range of Business Lines addressing a large set of markets with different business models.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES :

• Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand business operation and strategy to frame problem statements or articulate new application requirement with proper justification.
• Capture the representation of the applications and systems landscape. Analyse application landscape dependencies (technical and functional, application interfaces, program/roadmap).
• Identify the capabilities and limitations/risks of the current applications landscape used by the business line.
• Identify synergy or opportunities by evaluating scenario such as repurpose application assets or innovations within or across the different business lines.
• Develop recommendation to address limitations or enabling synergies by guiding application roadmap preparation.
• Support formalisation of scope, drivers, justification of business requirements for application development investment requests.
• Support Solution Architects in shaping solution design and making application architecture design decisions aligned with business imperatives once investment is approved.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related fields is required.
• TOGAF Certification is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive functional knowledge in multiple enterprise functions (sales, production, Laboratory, digital …) relevant to Industries with ties to Eurofins markets and customers. Proven success in a growth-oriented business.
• Exposure to Enterprise Architecture Assessment and Management methods such as TOGAF, etc. (certification is a nice to have).
• Knowledge of Enterprise Process, Information, Application, and Technology Blueprints preparation.
• Familiar with Enterprise Architecture blueprint development, governance, and management
• Ability to understand business strategy, operations, and technology trends.
• Business Analysis (business requirement, functional requirements and value engineering).
• Enterprise Architecture modelling.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex business and Technology concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication skills targeting leadership audience (CxO and VP level).
• Highly tolerant and resilient to volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. VUCA is not a justification for not delivering.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with a focus on driving business outcomes through effective architecture, yet attentive to details.
• Team player: involves others, builds trust with colleagues, shares knowledge and seeks opportunities for cross functional working and collaboration.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence decision-makers.

Additional Information

• Position is full-time, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm. 

Eurofins USA is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.