IT Architect

**IT Architect**

**European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM)
**Refer ence**: e049/2024**

**Location: Strasbourg **Publication: 07 October 2024

**Deadline: 28 October 2024**

Do you have the potential to play a key role in designing and implementing information technology solutions that
align with the strategic objectives of the EDQM and the
that will enable you to create a roadmap for EDQM information technology? Are you able to create technical solutions
and provide guidance to development teams while ensuring that the IT architecture meets performance, security and
scalability requirements? If so, this vacancy may be the right opportunity for you.

**Who we are**

With over 2600 staff representing all its 46 member States, the

Organisation. We all strive towards protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law and our three core

values - **professionalism, integrity and respect**:

- guide the way we work.

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) is a leading organisation whose mission is to

contribute to public health protection by engaging with an international community of experts and stakeholders. We achieve this

by promoting access to safe medicines and healthcare through the elaboration of quality standards, which are recognised as a

scientific benchmark worldwide. The EDQM’s standards for medicines and their ingredients, compiled in the European

Pharmacopoeia, are legally binding in its 39 European member States (and the European Union) and are also widely used

across the globe in the human and animal health sectors. The EDQM also plays a crucial role in the areas of blood transfusion,

organ, tissue and cell transplantation and in developing and setting consumer health standards, such as for cosmetics and food

contact materials.

**Your role**

As an IT Architect, you will:
design and ensure the maintenance of the functional software architecture for the EDQM’s information systems and
related procedures in line with architectural standards;
ensure that architectural principles are fully integrated into IT projects;
ensure the different layers of the architecture are coherent with each other, with the aim of realising the strategic vision
to simplify, modernise and digitalise the EDQM’s information systems;
analyse interdependencies between the different transformation programmes;

**Our work is carried by our values**

optimise resources, performance and costs, in particular avoiding the duplication of IT technology and functionalities
within the Organisation;
draft architecture proposals to meet the needs identified during pre-project and project phases; ensuring the
coherence, performance and scalability of the information system architecture; evaluating the functional and technical
impacts of change requests.

**What we are looking for**

You must:
hold a higher education degree or qualification (1st cycle of the Bologna process framework of qualifications for the
European Higher Education Area) in a relevant field, eg. computing, computing engineering, IT, data science,
mathematics, or other relevant discipline;
AND

have a minimum of 6 years of recent relevant professional experience, at least 3 years of which in enterprise architecture
or systems architecture or similar role.

OR

hold a higher education degree or qualification equivalent to a master’s degree (2nd cycle of the Bologna process
framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area) in a relevant field, eg. computing, computing
engineering, IT, data science, mathematics, or other relevant discipline;
AND

have a minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience in enterprise architecture or systems architecture or
similar role.

have experience of relevant methodologies and frameworks such as the TOGAF method;
have a very good knowledge of one of the two
knowledge of the other;
be a citizen of one of the member States of the
service of that state;
have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the

be under the age of 65 years.

Demonstrate to us that you have the following competencies:
Professional and technical expertise:

- strong project management skills;
- excellent knowledge of the principles of enterprise architecture, information systems urbanisation and

methodologies and frameworks such as the TOGAF method.
- Communication Please refer to the

Analysis and problem solving **Competency Framework**

of the
Vision and Strategic Insight

( - 1,6Mo)

Teamwork and co-operation

Management of teams

Concern for quality

Relationship building

These would be an asset:
Professional and technical expertise:

- sound knowledge of project management assistance and/or functional architecture in large-scale information

system evolution projects;Influencing

Drafting skills

**What we offer**

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