Senior Java Software Architect

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As a Senior Java Software Architect, you will play a central role in shaping and evolving mission-critical enterprise applications with a meaningful social impact. This is an opportunity to influence architectural decisions, drive technical excellence, and contribute directly to the future of a complex software landscape. Your day-to-day work will combine strategic thinking with hands-on development. You will design scalable and maintainable solutions, modernize existing systems, and guide the evolution of enterprise applications toward modular and future-proof architectures. Working across the full technology stack, you will develop both client and server-side components while ensuring high quality and long-term sustainability. Collaboration is a key aspect of the role. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and external customers to transform requirements into reliable technical solutions. In addition, you will help advance engineering practices by contributing to build automation, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and efficient release processes. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to make a tangible impact through your work, this role offers the opportunity to do both. You bring extensive experience in enterprise software development and have successfully combined software architecture responsibilities with hands-on engineering throughout your career. A strong Java background is essential, including at least 10 years of professional experience and deep expertise in Java 11 and Java 17 . You are comfortable working with technologies such as Eclipse RCP, SWT, JFace, WildFly, and Java EE , and have a solid understanding of object-oriented design, clean code principles, and established design patterns. Experience in modernizing legacy systems and designing robust enterprise architectures will be highly valued. Your technical toolkit also includes PostgreSQL , JPA/Hibernate , JPQL , and CriteriaBuilder , enabling you to design and implement efficient backend solutions. Familiarity with modern development environments and DevOps practices-including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, Docker, Maven, and Eclipse Tycho -is expected. Beyond technical expertise, you communicate effectively across different audiences and build productive relationships with colleagues and customers alike. A good command of English (minimum B2 level) and fluent German (minimum C2 level) are essential for success in this role. You thrive in complex environments, take ownership of your work, and enjoy turning technical challenges into reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions. We support your development! Do you feel you don't match 100% of the requirements? Don't hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development. We embrace diversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique. Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal! Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/ Company description : Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Euro

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