Senior Solution Architect Team Lead (f/m)

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 laboratories work 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 dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will ensure that our architecture enables high-quality outcomes, sound engineering practices, and effective alignment across teams. You will guide architectural decisions, strengthen governance, and support the organisation in adopting a consistent, Azure-ready, and reliable way of working.

Your Responsibilities:

Empower the Architects

• Act as a cohesive architecture team leader, working collaboratively with other architects to drive change and ensure consistent practices across products/teams and domains.
• Onboard, mentor, and grow architects by aligning goals, priorities, responsibilities, and expectations.
• Facilitate team-wide clarity on architectural pillars, decision-making approaches, and governance processes.
• Promote a strong team identity (“team power”), ensuring architects coordinate effectively, support one another, and operate with a unified vision.

Validate and Shape Technical Designs

• Validate business requirements from a technical perspective and translate them into actionable, well-reasoned solution designs.
• While ensure that Group standards are applied, contribute to their evolutions, with innovative proposals
• Use Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to make decisions explicit, including the rationale and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) considerations.

Define and Steward System-Wide Architecture

• Contribute to a coherent architecture across teams by defining a clear set of architecture pillars and ensuring they are followed.
• Maintain updated system documentation, including diagrams, data flows, metadata, and integration views.
• Promote simplification and ensure architecture decisions support overall strategy, speed of delivery, and maintainability.

Lead Azure Solution Architecture

• Guide the organisation in designing and building effectively on Azure.
• Help the organisation choose the right level of abstraction along the cloud spectrum — from flexible IaaS → CaaS → PaaS → FaaS — balancing portability, engineering effort, and delivery speed.
• Define cloud foundations: governance, identity & access, security-by-design, compliance, cost optimisation, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Ensure technical choices leverage appropriate Azure services or custom components when justified.

Champion Software Quality and Non-Functional Requirements

• Define non-functional needs such as performance, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Ensure modern SDLC practices are applied, including secure coding, zero-trust principles, threat modelling, regulatory compliance, and reliability engineering (SRE concepts, SLAs, metrics, resilience patterns).

Collaborate and Communicate Effectively

• Promote a collaborative, respectful, and supportive culture where architecture empowers teams to do their best work.
• Work closely with distributed teams and stakeholders to align technical decisions with business priorities.
• Communicate architecture at multiple levels — from executive summaries to detailed design sessions.
• Support estimation, planning, and budgeting with clear architectural input.

Serve and Enable the Organization

• Act as a trusted partner to product owners, developers, tech leads, and stakeholders, helping them make better technical decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Demonstrate a genuine passion for enabling teams — removing friction, simplifying complexity, and ensuring architecture is a service that supports delivery rather than a barrier.
• Mentor architects and developers on solution design, architecture patterns, and best practices.
• Support skills governance by helping identify expertise gaps (e.g., Azure, integration, observability) and promoting training and upskilling initiatives.

Help teams understand decision trade-offs and align on consistent ways of working.  

Standard benefits for Permanent Employees in Romania

• 13 monthly salaries per year (range for this position: 26 000 - 33 000 RON net / month)
• Meal Vouchers
• Gym Reimbursement
• Medical Subscription
• Health Insurance
• 25 days of holidays + 1 extra day off for your birthday
• Additional holidays for your loyalty
• Remote work activity

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, with 5-10 years in a similar architecture role.
• Proven experience in Solution Architecture, particularly in designing distributed systems and cloud-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, architectural trade-offs, cloud governance, and cost-awareness.
• Familiarity with concepts such as event-driven architecture, integration patterns, API management, and container strategies.
• Experience working with system documentation, ADRs, modelling methods (e.g., UML), and architecture frameworks.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or similar).
• Exposure to C# (.NET Core), SQL Server/PostgreSQL, or frontend technologies to facilitate collaboration, deployment pipelines and DevOps practices — but not as primary responsibilities.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years. #LI-REMOTE