Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider. IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.
We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.
In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.
Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.
At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:
On It : We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.
All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.
Connected : We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.
Hungry to Grow : We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.
If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.
The Role
Day-to-day at Ekco:
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the site technology architecture for a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility operating in a regulated GxP environment. The role provides architectural leadership across IT, OT, automation, manufacturing execution, laboratory, quality, engineering, warehouse, serialisation, utilities, and enterprise systems to ensure technology supports safe, compliant, efficient, and resilient production. This position ensures that site digital manufacturing capabilities, validated systems, data flows, infrastructure, cybersecurity, integration patterns, and lifecycle roadmaps are aligned with business strategy, GMP expectations, product quality, patient safety, data integrity, inspection readiness, and site operational performance.
What you’ll be responsible for:
Develop and maintain site architecture vision, principles, standards, reference architectures, integration patterns, and roadmaps across IT, OT, automation, manufacturing, laboratory, quality, engineering, warehouse, serialisation, utilities, and enterprise platforms.
Translate site strategy, production priorities, product pipeline needs, quality requirements, engineering constraints, and regulatory expectations into target-state architectures and practical transition plans.
Provide architecture governance for site GxP systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, site validation expectations, GMP controls, data integrity principles, cybersecurity requirements, and operational resilience needs.
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