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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.

We are looking for an experienced IT Solutions Architect to join a major enterprise transformation programme within a highly regulated environment. This is a hands-on role combining solution architecture, software engineering expertise, and technical leadership.

Working closely with the core product team in Dresden, business stakeholders, and distributed delivery teams across Europe and the UK, you will be responsible for designing, evolving, and modernising enterprise-scale platforms while ensuring high standards of performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive solution architecture for enterprise applications
• Lead technical design activities and support implementation across distributed teams
• Contribute to the modernisation and evolution of complex legacy systems
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and high-performing
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders
• Support delivery throughout the full software development lifecycle
• Promote engineering best practice and architectural standards across teams

We are looking for a technology leader with 10+ years' experience in enterprise software development and solution architecture.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong Java background, including Java 11/17 and Java EE / Jakarta EE, together with proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications. Strong database design and development expertise, particularly with PostgreSQL, is essential, as is hands-on experience with Eclipse RCP, SWT and JFace, and WildFly Application Server.

You should have a solid understanding of software architecture, object-oriented design principles and design patterns, with experience leading the modernisation of legacy systems and supporting long-term technology roadmaps. Experience with JPA/Hibernate, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Maven and Azure DevOps would be advantageous.

To succeed in this role, you will be a collaborative communicator, comfortable working with geographically distributed teams and engaging effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Skills

• 10+ years' experience in enterprise software development and architecture
• Strong Java background (Java 11/17, Java EE / Jakarta EE)
• Database design and development expertise (PostgreSQL)
• Eclipse RCP, SWT and JFace
• WildFly Application Server
• Enterprise software architecture and solution design
• Legacy system modernisation
• Object-oriented design, design patterns and engineering best practices
• Experience working within complex enterprise environments

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to influence the technical direction of a significant enterprise programme while remaining close to the technology. You will work alongside experienced international teams, contribute to the evolution of business-critical platforms and play a key role in shaping future architecture decisions.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is valued, respected and empowered to succeed. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences and believe that diverse perspectives make stronger teams and better solutions.

Travel: Initial onboarding will take place in Dresden and will require a 2–3 week stay on-site. Following onboarding, business travel to Dresden is expected approximately once per quarter.

Standard benefits for Permanent Employees in Romania:

• 13 monthly salaries per year (range 22.000 - 24.000 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

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. 65,000 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.