About the Department

The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect is a technical leader with a deep understanding of business goals, business processes and solutions architecture who designs and supports the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural standards.

Relationships

Individual contributor role. Interacts with internal stakeholders across business units as well as external suppliers and partners.

Essential Functions

• Lead evaluation, design and analysis of enterprise-wide solutions

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives

• Provides a point of contact for supporting the applications in support of one or more specific business processes or areas

• Works on the projects and initiatives assigned by IT management team

• Leads in the development and/or maintenance of technical documents. Reconciles solution design with business requirements. Designs application prototypes when necessary

• Design solution recommendations and alternatives to satisfy customer needs

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, applications and infrastructure teams to produce optimal designs

• Delivers messages and presentations in a clear, confident manner. Produce technical documentation of systems and architectures

• Ensure compliance of solutions to architectural standards

• Act as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings

• Acts as a primary liaison between the business or function and vendor to provide updates, ensure alignment and monitors vendor activities Leverages knowledge of risk management standards for current processes, projects and systems

• Designs integrations between existing internal systems and external partners

Physical Requirements

10% travel including some international.

Qualifications

• Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, computer science, or related field preferred

• Experience Level: 8+ years related experience in architecture design and implementation experience within the pharmaceutical industry/IT/product management

• Strong background in pharma MarTech and patient technologies including interfaces and synergies between SalesForce and Adobe

• Strong background in application and solution development in data management and analytics solutions

• Specific or technical job skills: Experience in solution design, data management, data integration and database development techniques. Works in Agile solution delivery

• Experience in SQL, AWS, Cloud, ETL (Informatica etc.) and BI (Tableau, Qlik Sense, etc.) Technologies

• Good knowledge of data modelling & data warehousing concepts

• Experience in assembling large, complex structured/unstructured data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements

• Knowledge of Pharmaceutical Data like IQVIA, Veeva, Customer or Product Master Systems is a plus

• Knowledge of Snowflake Database, Tableau, QlikSense and Informatica is a plus

• Experience in handling onsite/offshore team is a plus

• Experiences in agile development and testing preferred

• Ability to work independently

• Demonstrated problem solver with an ability to provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems

• Excellent technical writing, document organization, technical document review and analytical thinking skills are required

• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, written and oral communication skills

• Expert knowledge of systems analysis and design techniques

• Knowledge of all phases of the project and system development methodologies

The base compensation range for this position is $120,300 to $222,600. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.

Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy and parental leave policy.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.