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Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people - using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes - to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.\nRole Overview:\nUnilabs is undertaking a significant transformation of its technology landscape to improve service delivery, resilience, operational efficiency and alignment with long-term strategic objectives across Portugal and Spain.\nThe Iberia Technology Lead is the senior technology leader responsible for Architecture, Engineering, Interoperability, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technology Services across Iberia. The role ensures that applications, integrations, infrastructure and cloud services evolve as a secure, scalable, resilient and maintainable ecosystem while supporting both business growth and technology modernisation.\nActing as the technical deputy to the Head of IT Iberia, the role provides strategic leadership across the technology estate, ensuring business priorities, technical roadmaps, operational resilience and technology investments are aligned and effectively governed.\nThe role operates within the global UniTech technology framework and works in close functional alignment with the Global Head of Technology Design. While reporting locally to the Head of IT Iberia, the Iberia Technology Lead is accountable for ensuring that Iberia technology strategy, architecture and engineering decisions follow Group technology principles, target architectures, standards and governance. The role represents Iberia requirements into global technology design and contributes actively to the evolution of Group standards, while ensuring their effective adoption and implementation across Iberia.\nThe position plays a key role in the continued evolution of UniTech and the Iberia operating model, establishing clear accountability between Iberia teams, Global Technology Design, Group technology functions, Cybersecurity, Product teams and external suppliers.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnology Strategy & Leadership\nAct as the primary technical advisor to the Head of IT Iberia.\nDefine and maintain the Iberia technology strategy and multi-year technology roadmap within the Group technology strategy, target architecture and standards.\nTranslate Group technology direction, architectural principles and standards into Iberia implementation priorities, identifying local requirements, constraints and justified exceptions.\nWork in close functional partnership with the Global Head of Technology Design and relevant Group technology leaders, ensuring early alignment on strategic technology and architecture decisions. \nRepresent Iberia requirements and priorities into Group technology strategy, architecture and standards, actively contributing to their continued evolution. \nEstablish local technology governance, decision-making frameworks and accountability across Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure domains, consistent with Group governance and decision rights.\nEnsure technology strategies, standards and roadmaps address the operational, regulatory and business requirements of both Portugal and Spain while maintaining alignment with Group direction and exceptions are reviewed through the appropriate Group architecture/technology governance forums.\nPartner with Product and Service Management leaders to translate business priorities into sequenced technology roadmaps, ensuring clear accountability between product direction, technical delivery and operational service ownership.\nResolve cross-domain priorities, architectural conflicts, dependencies and capacity constraints across Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure.\nLead strategic technology planning and provide recommendations regarding investment priorities, technology evolution and risk trade-offs.\nDrive the evolution of the Iberia technology operating model.\nPeople Leadership\nLead, coach and develop the managers responsible for Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure.\nFoster a culture of accountability, ownership, delegation and continuous improvement.\nEstablish clear objectives, performance expectations and development plans.\nBuild succession capability within all technical domains.\nSupport hiring, retention and leadership development of key technical talent.\nStrengthen collaboration between technology teams and business stakeholders.\nArchitecture & Engineering Leadership\nLead the implementation and evolution of the Iberia technology architecture in alignment with Group target architecture, technology principles and standards. \nDrive the evolution of core platforms towards more modular, scalable and maintainable architectures.\nGuide major architecture decisions across development and platform initiatives ensuring alignment with Global Technology Design and appropriate Group architecture governance.\nAdopt and operationalise Group engineering and technology standards or, where not available, establish engineering standards covering quality, testing, observability, security and CI/CD in alignment with Global Head of Technology Design\nReduce technical debt and architectural complexity while maintaining delivery momentum.\nPromote modern software engineering practices and continuous improvement.\nEnsure consistent governance over platform design, system integration and technology standards.\nInteroperability & Integration\nDefine and govern enterprise integration principles and standards.\nEnsure interoperability solutions are scalable, secure and aligned with business objectives.\nPromote API-first and loosely coupled integration approaches.\nOversee integration risk, dependency management and platform interoperability.\nEnsure licensed and internally developed solutions integrate effectively within the broader technology landscape.\nGuide strategic decisions regarding healthcare interoperability standards, integration platforms and integration governance.\nInfrastructure, Cloud & Technology Services\nProvide executive oversight of infrastructure, cloud, platform and operational technology services.\nEnsure infrastructure strategies support current and future business needs.\nOversee service reliability, availability, lifecycle management and resilience.\nGovern major infrastructure investment decisions and technology refresh plans.\nEnsure cloud adoption, platform modernisation and infrastructure transformation are aligned with overall technology strategy.\nMaintain oversight of cybersecurity remediation priorities, infrastructure risks and operational resilience measures.\nOperational Resilience & Service Transition\nEnsure business continuity, disaster recovery and resilience capabilities remain effective and regularly validated.\nEstablish clear service transition requirements for all technology initiatives.\nEnsure operational readiness, support ownership and documentation requirements are met before production deployment.\nDrive structured problem management and resolution of recurring technology issues.\nEnsure technology risks are identified, reported and actively managed.\nTechnology Supplier Governance\nProvide executive governance for strategic technology suppliers and service providers.\nOversee supplier performance, contractual obligations, risks, service levels and improvement plans.\nSupport sourcing decisions, build-versus-buy assessments and technology procurement initiatives.\nManage relationships with key technology partners and vendors.\nEnsure supplier strategies align with Iberia technology objectives.\nTechnology Portfolio & Investment Management\nOwn the consolidated Iberia technology investment roadmap.\nLead budget planning and technology investment prioritisation across technical domains.\nDevelop business cases supporting transformation and modernisation initiatives.\nBalance business value, technical risk, operational impact and cost considerations.\nProvide technology portfolio reporting and investment recommendations to senior leadership.\nGovernance, Risk & Compliance\nMaintain oversight of technology risks, infrastructure risks, integration risks and architectural debt.\nEnsure alignment with cybersecurity policies, governance controls and regulatory requirements.\nSupport compliance with GDPR, healthcare regulations and Group standards.\nEnsure key technology decisions are documented through appropriate governance forums.\nCreate visibility through KPIs, dashboards and executive reporting.\nKey Success Measures\nDelivery of an integrated Iberia technology roadmap.\nImproved availability, resilience and performance of critical technology services.\nReduction of technical debt, infrastructure risk and integration complexity.\nSuccessful delivery of technology transformation initiatives.\nEffective collaboration across Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure domains.\nStrong succession capability and leadership maturity across technical teams.\nImproved technology governance, transparency and decision-making.\nTechnology investment aligned to business priorities and measurable outcomes.\nPositive stakeholder feedback from business, Group Technology and key partners.\nDemonstrated alignment of Iberia technology architecture and roadmaps with Group technology strategy, standards and target architecture. \nEffective adoption and reuse of Group technology platforms, patterns and capabilities, with exceptions transparently governed. \nStrong collaboration and positive stakeholder feedback from Global 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