PolyPeptide Group AG and its consolidated subsidiaries (“PolyPeptide”) is a focused 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 offers products and services from pre-clinical through to commercial stages, including generics. Its active custom projects pipeline reflects the opportunities from novel drug therapies in development to fight both widespread and rare diseases. Dating back to 1952, PolyPeptide today runs a global network of six cGMP-certified facilities in Europe, the U.S. and India. PolyPeptide Group AG’s shares (SIX: PPGN) are listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.

We are constantly growing and developing our organization. As part of this process, we provide our employees with a dynamic and stimulating workplace with great opportunities to grow. PolyPeptide offers diverse opportunities for both experts and young professionals throughout the world.

About the Role

As Enterprise Architect at PolyPeptide, you will play a key role in 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 Enterprise Architecture is still evolving and where you will have significant influence on frameworks, governance, processes, and future direction. You will work across the full architecture landscape, 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, implement and continuously mature the enterprise architecture practice to ensure alignment with business strategy and long-term organizational goals, including architecture roadmaps, governance structures, standards, and “as-is/to-be” landscapes

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

• Act as a strategic advisor by translating business needs into sustainable architecture decisions and effectively communicating complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Establish and evolve architecture governance, frameworks, and ways of working to support decision-making and ensure alignment across projects, technologies, and initiatives

• Drive adoption and understanding of Enterprise Architecture across the organization by educating, influencing, and collaborating with stakeholders across both IT and business

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

• Support and guide architecture-related initiatives and projects, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide objectives, integration principles, and future-state architecture

• Evaluate and recommend 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, 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

• 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.

FIND THIS INTERESTING? APPLY NOW!

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? We are applying ongoing selection, so do not hesitate to send us your application.

The position is based in Malmö, Sweden, and you will be part of the Global IS/IT organization located in Limhamn.

In this recruitment, we have partnered with an external recruitment agency (CAPAX). For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Line Kejser at lke@capaxrecruitment.com.

For more information regarding the role, please contact Dag Widell at Dag.Widell@polypeptide.com. Swedish applicants are welcome to contact the local union chairman for Akademikerföreningen or Unionen at +46 040-36 62 00 for support.