Merck KGaA Posted September 14, 2026

Senior Platform Architect - AWS (all genders)

Madrid, Madrid, Spain FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

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:

You bring significant experience in cloud and systems architecture, with deep hands-on expertise designing and operating production platforms on AWS.

You have strong expertise in AWS networking, including VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, routing, private connectivity, ingress and egress controls, DNS and network security.

You are highly experienced in cloud security, identity and access management, identity federation, workload identity and least-privilege design across multi-account environments.

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.

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.

You understand agentic application architectures, including models, agents, tools, orchestration, memory, guardrails and evaluation, with recent experience using Amazon Bedrock, Agentforce or comparable platforms.

You turn complex technical challenges into clear, reusable patterns and communicate architecture effectively to engineering, product, security and senior stakeholder audiences.

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!

Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 592 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 56 biopharma companies.

592Comparable roles tracked
549Currently active
56Companies hiring similar roles
31Countries represented

Salary context

75 of 592 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Highest disclosed · Dir/Sr. Dir - Lab Automation Engineer, Discovery Oncology · Lilly $180,000/yr – $297,000/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $238,500 (median $178,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 592 comparable roles

India236
United States190
Spain41
Poland20
Philippines12
United Kingdom12

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Seniority mix

592 of 592 peers have a known seniority level

Senior406
Principal95
Associate Director91

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 592 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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