Technology Compliance Partner

Job Description

Our company Information Technology division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. Ours is a high-energy team of dynamic, innovative individuals dedicated to leveraging information and technology to efficiently drive revenue and productivity, thereby advancing our company's contribution to global medical innovation.

Responsibilities

• Engage with IT practitioners and act as a consultant for the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Technology Risk Profile, Digital SDLC, and the IT Controls.
• Author and review SDLC documentation and facilitate user testing.
• Provide advice to IT colleagues regarding the practical application of the SDLC and implementation of IT Controls for product teams.
• Support efforts to reduce SDLC documentation through automation and pipeline delivery.
• Advance Agile SDLC and IT Controls competency and drive good practices for product teams.
• Work across product teams and initiatives as subject matter expert on the SDLC and IT Controls.
• Assist in collecting information for Change Control and addressing impact changes for application releases.
• Ensure that the IT organization operates and complies with established policies/procedures.
• Support audit/inspection readiness and participate in the timely review and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) response.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• 3+ years working in IT, Quality or Compliance.
• Technical knowledge and understanding of System Development Life Cycle, GxP principles, and computer validation.
• Demonstrate an ability to influence decisions and champion policy changes.
• Demonstrate an executive presence through good communication and professionalism.
• Understanding of emerging technologies used in the IT industry, such as cloud, data science, and analytics platforms.

Preferred

• Concentration in an Information Technology or related field.
• Exposure to at least one of the following: research, manufacturing, Infrastructure, software development, or security.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5  weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40  paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner 

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Required Skills:

Audit Management, Governance Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Management, Risk Management, Technical Advice

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

09/14/2026

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