Solution Architect IT/OT

Location: Barcelona, Spain; other location: Slovenia. This is an onsite role based in Barcelona. Relocation support is not available; applicants must already be able to access the location.

Annual salary: €41,900–€77,700, with potential performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global develops pharmaceutical and life-science solutions, combining scientific research with digital laboratory and manufacturing capabilities.

What you will do

• Define and implement NORA-compliant solution architectures for TRD laboratory and plant systems.
• Build and maintain inventories covering instrument PCs, interface PCs, connector servers, agents, relay components, schedulers, IoT devices, historians, vendor-managed systems, and air-gapped assets.
• Define MES, Historian, and SPINE integration patterns for Digital Labs and Digital Plant.
• Translate infrastructure and security requirements into reusable architecture patterns, implementation guidance, and guardrails.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, quality, site, vendor, delivery, and business-facing teams to implement architecture decisions.
• Maintain architecture specifications, ADRs, diagrams, exception records, decision logs, migration-readiness views, integration patterns, and system inventories while identifying and resolving architecture risks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of IT experience, including 3+ years in architecture or solution design roles.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration technologies.
• Experience in regulated or validated IT/OT environments, ideally in pharmaceutical, life-science, manufacturing, or laboratory settings.
• Understanding of GxP and validation requirements.
• Understanding of OT network segmentation, industrial and laboratory connectivity, DMZ/proxy/broker patterns, identity and domain models, endpoint baselines, and secure remote or vendor access.
• Familiarity with LIMS, ELN, MES, Historians, CDS, interface PCs, and vendor-managed laboratory or plant systems.
• Ability to create clear architecture decisions, diagrams, implementation guidance, and guardrails from infrastructure and security requirements.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and understanding of non-functional requirements including performance, latency, availability, monitoring, backup and restore, validation impact, supportability, and operational continuity.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across architecture, infrastructure, security, quality, site, vendor, delivery, and business-facing teams.
• Flexible working options where possible.
• Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
• Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Benefits and compensation vary by country and may be subject to local legal requirements and collective bargaining agreements.