Senior Solution Architect
Owkin
IT
Nantes, France · France · Paris, France · Remote
Posted on Mar 25, 2025
About us
Owkin is building the first universal AI Operating System called K to lay the foundation for Biological Artificial Superintelligence (BASI). This OS integrates a suite of AI agents that decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity. Acting as copilots, Owkin K agents will automate drug discovery and diagnostics and power next-gen pharma companies.
Owkin’s OS will be powered by the world’s largest federated multimodal patient data network, a robotized lab, leading AGI technologies, and cutting-edge multimodal foundation models and LLMs.
About the role:
As a Senior Solution Architect within Owkin, you will have the opportunity to work in the healthcare industry, and make a real contribution to answer medical & health challenging questions.
You will work on design, adaptation and integration of IT solutions. You will be in touch with a wide range of Cloud technologies and methods, including Cloud-native application design, DevOps, GitOps, Open Source software.
You’ll work under the responsibility of the Solution Architects Team Lead, interacting with:
- Internal teams: Products, Operations, CISO office, Partnerships, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineers, Research & Development, Legal…
- External stakeholders:
- Partners, Alliances and CROs IT teams, CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT-Ops…
- Customers (including Pharma)
- Vendors Sales, Pre-Sales and Professional Services representatives
In particular, you will:
- Design transformational and innovative IT solutions that tackle demanding business or science needs, in a cost-effective and timely way:
- Collect and understand users (Data Scientists, Biomedical Researchers, Project Managers, Finance, Senior Leadership Team...) functional and technical needs and translate them into IT architecture and specifications
- Lead meetings and workshops dedicated to design, refinement, integration, presentation and defence of solutions with external and internal stakeholders
- Identify, enroll and drive Subject Matter Experts to support your projects progress
- Write-up, deliver and defend technical documents (high-level design, detailed specifications, Architecture Decision Record), until review, validation and adoption
- Follow-up projects’ deployment and integration until completion: build and update plannings & timelines regularly, give regular status and highlight at the right level urgency/major issues
- Ensure a clean handover to SREs, SEs and Data Eng for deployment, integration and run
- Fulfill and enforce the Owkin Engineering standards
- Contribute to Owkin Engineering achievements by:
- Writing, reviewing, commenting and enhancing Technical Topics documents, Architecture Decision Record, Blueprints, ad-hoc studies
- Drive or support POCs and products evaluation
- Carry out technology watch, and share with your peers
- Occasionally lead call for tenders:
- RFP writing
- Selection criteria table crafting
- Host meetings with vendors and challenge their offerings
- Liaise with the Purchase team and ensure compliance with our policies
- Contribute to the contract and get the PO sent
- Follow-up the deployment, integration, and readiness plan
The position is located in France with potential in-person meetings on Partners’ and Customers’ sites all over the world.
About you
- A Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent
- At least 5 years of experience on architecture design in a Solution Architect role on critical infrastructure programs, in demanding enterprise environments
- Proven design and hands-on proficiency in several areas amongst (and knowledgeable of the rest of them):
- Public Cloud (AWS is mandatory, GCP, Azure is nice to have)
- Cloud Compute, Cloud Storage (block-, object-, file-), Cloud Network (VPC, NAT, VPN, firewall, WAF, LB), Linux
- Containers & orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes
- Automation : Flux, Ansible, Terraform
- Data engineering:
- Pipeline, curation, QC
- Workflow management (Aiflow preferred)
- Database, Data Lake, Data Warehouse
- AI/ML
- DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, APIs
- Security
- A TOGAF or an AWS Cloud Architect certification is a plus
- Educated on cyber-security best practices
- Knowledgeable about software engineering and software architecture
- Project management and leadership skills
- Highly organized and meticulous about details:
- capable of tackling complex problems logically and effectively
- rigorous
- meet deadlines
- Good communicator, working proficiency in English, able to:
- interact efficiently & on a pedagogical manner with stakeholders
- promote partnership spirit
- coordinate several threads of discussions & projects in parallel at various stages of progress
- lead technical discussions with a solution-oriented mindset
- adjust the speech to the audience
- Positive outcome in tackling challenges and working at a high level of quality and relationship
- Excited to work hard in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Please submit your CV in English
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What we offer
- Flexible work organization
- Friendly and informal working environment
- Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
- Please complete the form and submit your CV.
- Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
- Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
- Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.
- Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
- The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.
- The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;
- Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger
- Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.
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- Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn.
- Check the existence of the position on our website https://owkin.com/hiring
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