Job Title: IT Technical Lead
Location: Toulouse
Department: IT / Digital Systems
Reports To: Head of IT & Digital Systems

We're excited to share this opportunity is part of the Sandoz acquisition of Just-Evotec Biologics in Toulouse. Through this opportunity you will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people through bold ideas supported by an inclusive, agile company culture. Join us to help make healthcare fairer and faster, help us to pioneer access to medicine! Click to learn more.

What You'll Do :

• Ensure the performance, security, and availability of IT infrastructures (systems, networks, Cloud, telecom).
• Define technical orientations of IT and application projects, and establish specifications with teams.
• Act as the technical reference, supporting implementation and leading architecture and design decisions.
• Provide technical guidance and foster the skills development of administrators and engineers.
• Define and enforce technical best practices, ensure documentation and maintainability of solutions.
• Collaborate with Security teams to guarantee compliance (incl. GxP) and infrastructure resilience.
• Identify and assess technical risks, validate solutions through comprehensive evaluations.
• Design and oversee test plans, ensuring solution stability and quality.
• Optimize IT operations by introducing automation and streamlining environments.
• Contribute to solving complex incidents and support project and run teams.
• Conduct technology watch to propose relevant and innovative improvements.

Who You Are :

• Degree in IT, Information Systems, or related field.
• Over 10 years of experience in technical roles (networks, systems, security), with significant architecture exposure.
• Strong expertise in networking, operating systems (Windows/Linux), security, and Cloud.
• Understanding of IT/OT environments, ideally within pharmaceutical or regulated industries.
• Strong soft skills: organization, leadership, persuasion, team building, pedagogy, mentorship.
• Fluent in French and English, both spoken and written.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.