Senior Manager, Solution Architect

Novocure is a global publicly‑traded commercial‑stage oncology company developing a profoundly different cancer treatment therapy called Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) for patients with solid tumors. TTFields therapy is a non‑invasive, novel, antimitotic treatment modality which utilizes proprietary technology attempting to slow or reverse tumor progression by inducing tumor cell death. Novocure’s commercialized product, Optune, is approved for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma (GBM) in the USA, Europe and Israel.

Novocure has ongoing or completed clinical trials and is further expanding its efforts into several other solid tumor indications – non‑small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other types of solid cancers.

Currently we are looking for a Senior Manager, Solution Architect to join our office in Cracow, Poland. This is a hybrid role and requires office presence 3 times per week.

This is a permanent role and the person is going to be hired for the contract of employment (umowa o pracę).

The Senior Manager, Solution Architecture is responsible for leading solution design across the enterprise technology landscape, ensuring scalable, secure, and future‑ready architectures that enable evolving business needs. This role provides architectural leadership across SAP S/4, Veeva platforms, custom‑built applications, and emerging technologies, with a strong emphasis on cloud‑native design, event‑driven architectures, and modernization of legacy systems.

This leader will partner closely with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and technology leadership to solve complex problems through thoughtful system design, integration strategy, and architectural governance—balancing innovation with operational stability.

This position is reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture.

Solution Architecture & Design

• Own and lead end‑to‑end solution architecture for complex, cross‑domain initiatives spanning SAP S/4, Veeva systems, custom applications, and enterprise integrations.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure solution designs aligned with enterprise standards and long‑term roadmaps.
• Design architectures leveraging cloud‑native capabilities, including microservices, APIs, event‑driven patterns, and platform services.
• Design data models and data flows aligned to enterprise integration patterns, ensuring consistent handling of master, reference, and transactional data.
• Drive architectural decisions for modernization and migration of legacy and outdated technologies to meet performance, scalability, and business agility goals.
• Work with AI team to continue assessing AI solutions in the market and ensuring best‑of‑breed AI technologies can fit within Novocure’s technology ecosystem.

Enterprise Integration & Technology Strategy

• Collaboratively define and govern integration patterns across enterprise platforms (SAP, Veeva, custom systems, cloud services).
• Lead adoption of event‑driven architectures, messaging, and asynchronous processing where appropriate.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security standards, and compliance requirements.
• Work as part of the Enterprise Architecture practice to influence technology standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align solution architecture with business process design, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted architectural advisor to business leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.
• Lead and mentor solution architects and senior technical contributors, fostering strong design practices and architectural rigor.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, platform, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure cohesive end‑to‑end solutions.
• Provide architectural input to portfolio planning, investment decisions, and vendor evaluations.

Governance & Delivery Enablement

• Establish and participate in architecture reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and reuse across initiatives.
• Balance speed of delivery with long‑term sustainability,…