Enterprise Architect

PolyPeptide Group AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (“PolyPeptide”) is a specialized Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for peptide- and oligonucleotide-based active pharmaceutical ingredients. By supporting its customers mainly in pharma and biotech, it contributes to the health of millions of patients across the world.

PolyPeptide serves a fast-growing market, offering products and services from pre-clinical through to commercial stages. Its broad portfolio reflects the opportunities in drug therapies across areas and with a large exposure to metabolic diseases, including GLP-1. Dating back to 1952, PolyPeptide today runs a global network of six GMP-certified facilities in Europe, the U.S. and India. PolyPeptide’s shares (SIX: PPGN) are listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.

Our Values

Trust: We build and maintain trust in all our relationships – both with each other and with our customers. We support each other and work as a team.

Innovation: We are curious and driven by finding smart solutions to the challenges we face.

Excellence: We always strive to deliver high quality and adapt to meet the needs of our customers.

About the Role

As Enterprise Architect at PolyPeptide, you will play a key role in implementing, shaping and maturing the company’s Enterprise Architecture practice across a global manufacturing organization. The role is part of Global IS/IT and will be central in supporting PolyPeptide’s digitalization journey by aligning business strategy, IT, and Operational Technology (OT).

This is a unique opportunity to join an organization where the Enterprise Architecture journey has only recently begun, and where you will play a key role in continuing the implementation of the EA function. The role will focus on driving and embedding EA processes, tools, governance, and roadmaps across the organization, while helping shape the future architecture landscape. You will work across the full architecture domain, from defining “as-is” and “to-be” states to enabling scalable and secure solutions across applications, infrastructure, data, manufacturing, and business processes.

You will collaborate closely with architects, IT/OT teams, business stakeholders, and leadership to support strategic initiatives, drive standardization, and establish architectural governance across the organization.

The role requires a pragmatic and hands-on Enterprise Architect who thrives in complex environments and enjoys building structure, driving adoption, and influencing stakeholders across both IT and business.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and continuously mature the enterprise architecture practice to ensure alignment with business strategy and long-term organizational goals
  


• Drive the integration and alignment of IT and OT systems across applications, infrastructure, manufacturing, and data environments
  


• Establish and evolve architecture governance, standards, frameworks, and ways of working across the organization
  


• Lead and facilitate architecture forums and cross-functional collaboration across IT, OT, infrastructure, ERP, security, and business domains
  


• Translate business needs into sustainable and scalable architecture decisions and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  


• Drive adoption and understanding of Enterprise Architecture by educating, influencing, and aligning stakeholders across IT and business
  


• Support and guide architecture-related initiatives and projects to ensure alignment with enterprise-wide objectives and future-state architecture
  


• Evaluate technologies, tools, and architectural approaches that support scalability, standardization, and long-term business value
  


• Contribute to the continuous improvement and simplification of the IT/OT landscape by identifying optimization opportunities and reducing complexity across the organization
  

Important stakeholders

• Business stakeholders across manufacturing and operations
  


• IT and OT leadership
  


• Infrastructure, security, compliance, ERP, and integration teams
  


• Architects across multiple domains
  


• Global Process Owners and project teams
  

Your Profile

To succeed in this role, you bring solid experience within Enterprise Architecture from complex manufacturing environments where IT and business closely interact.

We expect that you have:

• +8 years of experience within Enterprise Architecture in complex IT/OT manufacturing environments
  


• Experience working with global manufacturing landscapes and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives
  


• Experience of implementing Enterprise Architecture in a similar company
  


• Hands-on experience implementing EA frameworks, governance structures, and architecture tools (preferably LeanIX and SAP Signavio)
  


• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, system architectures, and integration landscapes
  


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across both IT and business functions
  


• Experience navigating complex organizational landscapes with many stakeholders and dependencies
  


• Ability to drive, model, and evaluate scalable architecture solutions in a complex environment
  


• Fluent verbal and written English
  

Experience from pharmaceutical manufacturing, CDMO, life sciences, chemical production, food production, or other regulated industries is considered highly relevant.

Personal characteristics

You are a self-driven and pragmatic Enterprise Architect who enjoys building structure and driving initiatives in evolving environments.

You are comfortable navigating complexity and balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. At the same time, you are a strong communicator who can educate, influence, and align stakeholders across both technical and business domains.

You thrive in collaborative environments and are motivated by driving long-term transformation and organizational maturity.

Travel

As this is a global role, limited travelling to PolyPeptide sites in Europe, the U.S., and India should be expected.

FIND THIS INTERESTING? APPLY NOW!

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so do not hesitate to submit your CV.

The Global End User Enablement team is primarily based in Limhamn, Malmö.

This recruitment is assisted by Capax Recruitment. For more information, please contact Line Kejser at [email protected]. Swedish applicants are welcome to contact the local union chairman for Akademikerföreningen or Unionen at +46 040 36 62 00 for support.

Please note: PolyPeptide only accepts applications submitted via the specified application link. Applications sent by email or other means will not be considered and will be deleted without review.