Senior Specialist – MEEHS Solution Architecture

About the role

Join a global biopharma organization to shape the architecture that connects digital capabilities across Maintenance, Engineering, Asset Reliability, Manufacturing Site Operations and Environmental Health & Safety. The role will lead the evolution of interoperable, governed, data‑driven ecosystems and design central data hubs for engineering and EHS data.

Key responsibilities

• Define current‑state, transition‑state and target‑state architectures covering applications, integrations, cloud services, data, analytics, security and operations.
• Design integration patterns and APIs that connect critical enterprise systems and enable governed data sharing.
• Architect central data hubs for engineering and EHS products, including ingestion, storage, transformation, metadata, lineage and quality controls.
• Establish canonical data models, business vocabularies and master‑data alignment across projects, facilities and equipment.
• Conceptualize digital‑thread use cases linking design, construction, commissioning, asset handover, operations, maintenance and EHS processes.
• Assess business value, technical feasibility and integration complexity to shape investment decisions.
• Provide delivery leadership through solution designs, architecture decision records, integration specifications and implementation roadmaps.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8 years of IT experience with strong background in system and solution architecture, enterprise integration and data‑platform design.
• Proven experience creating architecture for complex, regulated enterprise environments, preferably in pharmaceutical or industrial manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to guide concepts from feasibility through proof‑of‑concept, pilot, rollout and operational transition.

Required skills

• TOGAF architecture framework.
• API design (REST, OData, SOAP, Web Services, JSON, XML, webhooks).
• Data architecture – data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, semantic modeling, metadata, lineage.
• Enterprise system integration – iPaaS, middleware, message queues, event streaming, API gateways, ETL/ELT.
• Cloud platforms – Microsoft Azure.
• Visualization – Power BI.
• Modeling languages – ArchiMate, UML.
• CAD/BIM platforms – Autodesk, Bentley.
• EHS platforms – Enablon, Sphera, Cority, Intelex.