IT Manager - Digital Transformation

Posted:
2/10/2026, 5:29:22 PM

Location(s):
Uppsala, Sweden

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Our proteomic sciences (PSX) solutions are transforming the understanding of human diseases through advanced protein biomarker discovery. With our innovative solutions – including highly specific and validated assays that cover more than 5,000 proteins – our colleagues and technology empower scientists in groundbreaking research that will play a pivotal role in the future of personalized medicine.

The job:

As an IT Manager with a strong architecture focus at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will play a key role in shaping and governing technology solutions that enable our mission of making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Acting as a trusted partner to the business, you will translate strategic and operational needs into robust, scalable, and compliant IT architectures and solutions.

You will lead and develop a small team of engineers and solution architects, providing technical direction, architectural governance, and people leadership. Together, you will lead projects and define and execute architecture roadmaps across infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud platforms, ensuring solutions are industrialised, standardised, and fit for purpose in GxP-regulated environments.

This role supports digital transformation initiatives across manufacturing, laboratory, quality, and enterprise functions, including cloud adoption, data & analytics, and enterprise platforms. You will ensure alignment with GAMP5 and GxP requirements, while driving operational excellence, security, and full lifecycle management. Close collaboration with business stakeholders and IT colleagues is essential to delivering sustainable, high-quality solutions.

Requirements:

Education & Experience

  • Higher education in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience

  • Strong experience in IT and solution architecture, covering infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud environments

  • Proven ability to industrialise IT solutions, with a focus on standardisation, scalability, and operational robustness, preferably within the life sciences industry

  • Demonstrated experience working in regulated environments, including GxP and GAMP5

  • Experience supporting manufacturing environments within life sciences is preferred

  • Strong understanding of system lifecycle management, validation, documentation, and change control

People & Business Leadership

  • Experience managing and developing a small team of engineers and solution architects

  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with business stakeholders to translate needs into effective IT solutions

  • Experience operating in global, matrix organisations

  • Experience managing vendors and external partners

Delivery & Operations

  • Experience in IT service delivery, operations, and continuous improvement

  • Familiarity with agile and hybrid delivery models in regulated environments

  • Understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance by design

Other

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

  • Broad technical aptitude and ability to work across diverse technologies

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment

  • Experience working in a LEAN production environment is advantageous

  • Some travel may be required


Please apply as soon as possible, the position will be filled as soon as suitable candidate is found.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Website: https://www.thermofisher.com/

Headquarter Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 2006

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Bioinformatics ⋅ Biotechnology ⋅ Cloud Data Services ⋅ Consulting ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Life Science ⋅ Management Information Systems ⋅ Office Supplies ⋅ Precision Medicine