Job Description Summary
The Global Senior Domain Solution Architect – IT Infrastructure is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise infrastructure architecture landscape across cloud, on-premises hosting, workplace, network connectivity, and related infrastructure services. The role ensures that infrastructure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, cost-efficient, and aligned with Sandoz enterprise architecture principles, standards and business strategy.The architect serves as the primary technology authority for infrastructure architecture within global programs and projects, providing architectural guidance, technology roadmaps, standards, and governance while collaborating with business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations, and external partners. The role is accountable for ensuring that infrastructure investments support operational excellence, service resilience, regulatory compliance, and future business growth.
Job Description
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally.
Job Summary:
The Global Senior Domain Solution Architect – IT Infrastructure is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise infrastructure architecture landscape across cloud, on-premises hosting, workplace, network connectivity, and related infrastructure services. The role ensures that infrastructure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, cost-efficient, and aligned with Sandoz enterprise architecture principles, standards and business strategy.
The architect serves as the primary technology authority for infrastructure architecture within global programs and projects, providing architectural guidance, technology roadmaps, standards, and governance while collaborating with business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations, and external partners. The role is accountable for ensuring that infrastructure investments support operational excellence, service resilience, regulatory compliance, and future business growth.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Define and govern target-state infrastructure architecture across cloud, data centre, network, and workplace services.
- Develop architecture standards, principles, roadmaps, and reference architectures aligned with enterprise strategy.
- Provide architectural leadership and guidance for infrastructure transformation and strategic programmes.
- Evaluate solution options and support architectural decision-making based on business outcomes, risks, and costs.
- Drive cloud adoption, hybrid/multi-cloud strategies, infrastructure automation, and platform standardisation.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions meet security, compliance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Assess emerging technologies and vendor offerings to support future business needs.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, operations teams, and vendors to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
- 5+ years of IT experience, including 2+ years in Solution, Domain, or Infrastructure Architecture roles.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions within complex global environments.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Azure and/or AWS.
- Expertise in infrastructure architecture, including hosting, networking, workplace technologies, IAM, security, monitoring, and data protection.
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent.
- Understanding of security, risk management, governance, and regulated environments (e.g., GxP, GDPR, SOX).
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions and influence senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor management skills.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
Skills Desired
Skills Required
- 5+ years of IT experience
- 2+ years in Solution, Domain, or Infrastructure Architecture roles
- Experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions in complex global environments
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Azure and/or AWS
- Expertise in infrastructure architecture, including hosting, networking, workplace technologies, IAM, security, monitoring, and data protection
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent
- Understanding of security, risk management, governance, and regulated environments such as GxP, GDPR, and SOX
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical technology solutions and influence senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor management skills
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
