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So will you.\nClinical trials, safety studies, and audits make safe and innovative pharmaceutical-led care possible. As part of Ergomed Group, you help patients benefit so they experience more of life’s meaningful moments. Biopharmaceutical companies are our clients. Patients are our purpose.\nErgomed Group brings together Ergomed CRO, PrimeVigilance, Prudentia, and ADAMAS Consulting to help biopharmaceutical companies develop, deliver and safeguard therapies in oncology, rare disease and other complex areas of medicine. Across the Group, our teams turn the signals that clinical trials, safety systems and quality data generate into insight that helps bring safer treatments to patients around the world.\nThe science and analysis that guides our work is demanding. And this is where we excel. What defines us, though, is how we work together. Across countries, cultures and time zones, we bring kindness, curiosity and a shared sense of purpose to work that genuinely matters. Ideas are welcome here. Growth is expected. And every person has room to make a real difference to patients' lives.\nWhether you are early in your career or bringing decades of experience, we want you to feel valued for what you do and for who you are. If that sounds like the place you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you.\n We're looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to join our organization. In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture, governance, and cost-effective operation of Ergomed's Cloud (Microsoft Azure) environment. This hands-on role leads the design of new and improvements to existing Azure projects, builds reusable deployment templates and standards, and provides architectural review across the tenant - collaborating with project teams on solution design and standards, with IT stakeholders on demonstrable compliance (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), and with IT Operations on day-to-day support\nLead the architecture of new and existing Azure projects, recommending solutions and reviewing designs to ensure strong, repeatable foundations tailored to meet organizational requirements and business objectives\nAnalyze current infrastructure and applications to identify optimization opportunities, cost reduction strategies, and migration pathways to cloud environments\nDrive improvements in Azure cost management: cost drivers, budgets and alerts, Advisor reviews, and reservation/commitment strategies.\nBuild and maintain reusable project templates and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules so new workloads are provisioned consistently and correctly.\n• Lead the identification and resolution of architecture gaps, risks, and blockers surfaced through ongoing tenant review, working with relevant teams to close them.\nDevelop, implement and maintain cloud governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards to ensure adherence to industry regulations and organizational standards\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps engineers, security specialists, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into solution architectures that meets Ergomed's cloud standards and updating those standards where required\nLead the identification and resolution of architecture gaps, risks, and blockers surfaced through ongoing tenant review, working with relevant teams to close them.\nDefine and maintain tagging, naming, and subscription-structure standards, driving their consistent adoption across the tenant.\nWork with IT Security and workload teams to achieve and maintain demonstrable compliance (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), putting the right controls in place so compliance status can be evidenced at any time.\nEvaluate and recommend cloud technologies, tools, and services that align with organizational needs, including containerization platforms, orchestration systems, and infrastructure-as-code solutions\nOversee cloud infrastructure deployments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery capabilities are properly implemented and tested\nEstablish best practices for cloud resource management, including monitoring, performance optimization, and automated provisioning\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to development and operations teams on cloud architecture patterns and cloud-native application design\n **Required Qualifications:**\nExtensive experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with significant hands-on experience designing and running Azure environments.\nDemonstrated experience in a cloud architecture or senior technical role\nDeep, hands-on Azure architecture expertise: landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security.\nProven ability to design and build reusable deployment templates using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform, ARM).\nStrong understanding of Azure cost management: cost drivers, budgets and alerts, reservations/savings plans, and Azure Advisor\nExperience defining and enforcing cloud governance frameworks: Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging/naming standards.\nExperience maintaining compliance against frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, including control implementation and audit evidence.\nAbility to translate architectural designs into operational requirements, working with IT Operations on support models.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of resolving complex cloud infrastructure issues.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences.\nFamiliarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks, and experience supporting regulated (validated) cloud systems.\n**Preferred Qualifications:**\nExperience with multi-cloud strategies and hybrid cloud architectures\nKnowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices\nExperience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps principles\nExperience with serverless architectures and microservices design patterns\nBackground in enterprise application migration and modernization projects\n When you join Ergomed Group, you make a difference by helping to bring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment to patients around the world. You’ll join a passionate and collaborative team of experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting.\nWe are diverse in many ways, yet our values unite us. Our values are how we work, not words on a wall. If they sound like you, you will feel at home here.\nQuality: we hold ourselves to the standard patients deserve. \nIntegrity and trust: we do the right thing, especially when it is hard. \nDrive and passion: we care about the outcome, because someone is waiting on it. \nAgility and responsiveness: we move quickly, because patients cannot wait. \nBelonging: everyone is welcome, and every voice counts. \nCollaborative partnerships: we go further by going together. \nWe look forward to welcoming your application.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7050,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Ireland","iso":"IE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Clinical Trial Services (CRO)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T12:34:41Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:0","wave","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ergomed-group-cloud-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ergomed-group-cloud-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T03:24:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1065,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3935,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":16046},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=16046"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fergomed-group-cloud-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fergomed-group-cloud-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fergomed-group-cloud-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ergomed-group-cloud-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fergomed-group-cloud-architect"}]}