Senior IT Solution Architect – Cloud technologies

On behalf of one of our clients in the pharmaceutical industry, we are seeking an experienced cloud architect to act as paternity cover for one of our senior IT solution architects, primarily supporting major strategic initiatives in our portfolio, driving architectural improvements, and offering architectural guidance for initiatives requiring assistance.

Responsibilities

Main responsibility: DataCore (Connected Data Platform)

  • Architectural Support, especially for the platform team

  • Collaboration with the DataCore platform team on API ingest features

  • Guide teams to ensure alignment with target architecture and principles

  • Participate in design and planning sessions for DataCore features

  • Act as a sparring partner for Product Owners and management, offering architectural insights

Supplementary responsibilities

  • Supporting key initiatives like Studyhub with dependencies related to DataCore

  • Engaging in regular tech-lead community interactions

  • Working with the flow-manager team to establish a specific domain service

Department responsibilities include:

  • Contributing to Solution Review and Initiative support for Tech Leadership

  • Improving target architecture

  • Enhancing the Solution Framework

  • Cross-org collaboration within DDIT to improve the Container platform

Key Requirements

  • Experience as an architect

  • A solid understanding of:

    • Infrastructure as code

    • Monitoring/observability

    • Data engineering

    • API development

    • Azure cloud

  • Proficient in Python

  • Experience in building and operating platforms for software engineering or data analytics

  • Competent in software engineering practices

  • Skilled in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., C#, Java, Go)

  • Proficient in script-based approaches

  • Knowledge of testing schemes (unit, integration, mocks, A/B, chaos engineering)

  • Understanding of secure software development life cycle

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures

  • Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools

  • Experience in agile development environments

Location: Søborg, Copenhagen

Allocation: 100%

Start date: 12/05/2025

End date: 11/06/2026 (possibility of extension)