Healthcare Digital, Data & IT Senior Cloud Architect at Merck Serono SA

Algés, Lisbon, Portugal -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

15 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

15 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture, Snowflake Architecture, Data Warehousing, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, GIT, Infrastructure-as-Code, CloudFormation, Terraform, Container Architectures, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS, SQL Optimization, Data Processing Pipelines, ETL/ELT Processes, Data Security

Industry

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Description

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 have background in HPC (high performance computing) platforms and integration (optional). • You are proficient in English.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Cloud Architect, you will design scalable cloud architectures for R&D and oversee implementation teams. You will collaborate with global stakeholders to ensure proper solution delivery and manage the Healthcare R&D system landscape.