Senior Platform Architect - AWS (all genders)
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Merck KGaA. Madrid.
Pay not stated Platform Architect salary
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What you'll do
- Set the AWS platform’s architecture direction, roadmap and engineering rules for data, AI and agentic products
- Design how agent identities, permissions, delegation, isolation and audit controls work across the platform
- Lead AWS networking, identity, multi-account, container, hybrid connectivity, resilience and security observability architecture
- Create reusable architectures, automation, templates and self-service tools that make secure platform use easier
- Work with engineering, security, data, AI and product teams to turn designs into capabilities and improve the platform using feedback
What you bring
- Deep hands-on experience designing and running production platforms on AWS
- Strong AWS networking, cloud security, identity and least-privilege expertise across multiple accounts
- Experience building and operating container platforms with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
- Daily practical use of agentic AI, plus recent work with Amazon Bedrock, Agentforce or a comparable platform
Who this fits
This senior architecture role suits someone who can guide a design from its initial direction through implementation and ongoing operation. You’ll balance developer experience, resilience, maintainability, cost and enterprise risk, and explain architecture to engineering, product, security and senior leaders. The role is based in Madrid, Spain.
From the employer
Aplica tu Magia con nosotros
¿Estás listo para explorar, romper barreras y descubrir mucho más? Sabemos que tienes grandes planes. Nosotros, también, innovar con la ciencia y la tecnología para enriquecer la vida de las personas con las soluciones en Healthcare, Life Science y Electronics apasiona a nuestros colegas en el mundo entero. Juntos, soñamos en grande y compartimos el entusiasmo por cuidar a una gran diversidad de personas, clientes, pacientes y al planeta. Por eso, siempre buscamos mentes curiosas que imaginen lo nunca visto con nosotros.
Your role:
Shape the cloud foundations behind the next generation of data, AI and agentic products across a global science and technology organisation. As Senior Platform Architect — AWS, you will define the target architecture, evolution roadmap, guardrails and engineering standards for the Global UPTIMIZE AWS Platform. You will turn complex business and engineering needs into secure, scalable and developer-friendly platform capabilities that help teams move from experimentation to production. Working across AWS architecture, networking, security, identity, platform engineering and agentic technologies, you will establish the patterns that enable autonomy without compromising trust, control or operational ownership. You will define how agent identity, tool access, delegation, workload isolation, auditability and runtime controls should work when software can act on behalf of people and processes. You will lead architecture across AWS networking, identity federation, multi-account environments, container platforms, hybrid connectivity, resilience and security observability. You will make the secure and scalable path the easiest path through reusable architectures, automation, policy-as-code, templates and self-service capabilities. You will partner closely with platform engineers, software engineers, security specialists, data scientists, AI engineers and product leaders, turning architectural intent into working capabilities. With a product mindset, you will improve the platform through real user feedback and measure success through reliability, developer experience, security posture, adoption, delivery speed and cost efficiency. This is an opportunity to make your hands-on experience with enterprise AWS platforms and agentic engineering matter at global scale.
Who you are:
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You bring significant experience in cloud and systems architecture, with deep hands-on expertise designing and operating production platforms on AWS.
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You have strong expertise in AWS networking, including VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, routing, private connectivity, ingress and egress controls, DNS and network security.
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You are highly experienced in cloud security, identity and access management, identity federation, workload identity and least-privilege design across multi-account environments.
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You have designed and operated container platforms using Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle, service networking, workload scheduling, image management and security.
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You have practical, day-to-day experience using agentic AI to research, design, code, test, troubleshoot, automate or operate systems, and understand the implications of agents that can access data and take action.
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You understand agentic application architectures, including models, agents, tools, orchestration, memory, guardrails and evaluation, with recent experience using Amazon Bedrock, Agentforce or comparable platforms.
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You turn complex technical challenges into clear, reusable patterns and communicate architecture effectively to engineering, product, security and senior stakeholder audiences.
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You take ownership from architectural direction through implementation and operation, while balancing developer experience, resilience, maintainability, cost, enterprise risk and the realities of a fast-moving technical landscape.
Lo que ofrecemos: Somos mentes curiosas que provienen de una amplia gama de antecedentes, perspectivas y experiencias de vida. Creemos que esta variedad impulsa la excelencia y la innovación, fortaleciendo nuestra capacidad para liderar en ciencia y tecnología. Estamos comprometidos a crear acceso y oportunidades para que todos se desarrollen y crezcan a su propio ritmo. Únete a nosotros para construir una cultura de inclusión y pertenencia que impacte a millones y empodere a todos para defender el progreso humano.
¡Aplica ahora y conviértete en parte de un equipo que se dedica a Despertar el Descubrimiento y Elevar a la Humanidad!