Functional Architect - Hybrid work in Nantes

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.

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.

Job Description

In A Nutshell

Eurofins Digital Online team is managing multiple eCommerce products. The team is continuously expanding and improving the applications to meet business demand and improve customer satisfaction.

The main objective of this position is to analyse the business requirements, defining the functional architecture impacts on the information systems. Keeping all connected program teams and their associated application conceptually and timewise aligned.

Where will you be based and work arrangement

• Office address: 9 Rue Pierre Adolphe Bobierre, 44323 Nantes, France
• Hybrid work model: 3 days per week in the office, and 2 remotely

How can you help us? 

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities:

• Interact with stakeholders to map business requirements into functional solutions that optimally balance cost, speed of implementation, and value.
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers and Product Owners to create high-level solution designs.
• Develop functional design specifications and business process maps that document project plans, production systems.
• Identify, analyse, and communicate architecture and integration options and make recommendations to management.
• Design and maintain the functional domain.
• Design and maintain the necessary service contracts.
• Document best practices and solution blueprints.
• Ensure that designed solutions are successfully implemented.
• Ensure that designed solutions are conceptually aligned.
• Support the business in validating the solution.
• Train members of the team in the latest best practices and design approaches.
• Maintain the overall vision of the functions and features of the applications in scope.

What can we do for you?

We Are Offering The Following:

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

Type and duration of previous experience:

• 8+ years of experience in business or functional analysts’ roles or equivalent.
• Strong experience in Business and Functional Analysis (5 years or more)
• Good experience in Functional Architecture (2 years or more)

Functional/Technical Skills:

• Detail oriented
• Excellent analytical, written and communication skills.
• Excellent hands-on experience in the Requirements management.
• Strong experience in domain-driven analysis
• Good knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture style and principles
• Deep working knowledge of UML
• Strong conceptual thinker, able to work at high level of abstraction
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in a complex international environment
• Ability to motivate and influence others
• Ability to manage multiple projects / tasks concurrently and drive them to completion

Language Skills And Level Expected:

• English (fluent) required.
• French/German appreciated.

What else should you know? 

As the role and Eurofins' teams are international, please ensure to submit your application in English Language.

Additional Information

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! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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 also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in 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.