Iberia Technology Lead

About this role

_____________________________________________________________________________
Job Title: Iberia Technology Lead
Location: Porto, Portugal
Type: Full-time – Hybrid working (~3 days/week in office)
Reporting to: Head of IT Iberia & Global Service Delivery
Direct reports: Architecture Manager; Interoperability Manager; Infrastructure Manager; and potential future technical leadership roles.
_____________________________________________________________________________

About Unilabs:
Headquartered in Geneva and part of the A.P. Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people – using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes – to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.

Role Overview:
Unilabs is undertaking a significant transformation of its technology landscape to improve service delivery, resilience, operational efficiency and alignment with long-term strategic objectives across Portugal and Spain.
The Iberia Technology Lead is the senior technology leader responsible for Architecture, Engineering, Interoperability, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technology Services across Iberia. The role ensures that applications, integrations, infrastructure and cloud services evolve as a secure, scalable, resilient and maintainable ecosystem while supporting both business growth and technology modernisation.
Acting as the technical deputy to the Head of IT Iberia, the role provides strategic leadership across the technology estate, ensuring business priorities, technical roadmaps, operational resilience and technology investments are aligned and effectively governed.
The role operates within the global UniTech technology framework and works in close functional alignment with the Global Head of Technology Design. While reporting locally to the Head of IT Iberia, the Iberia Technology Lead is accountable for ensuring that Iberia technology strategy, architecture and engineering decisions follow Group technology principles, target architectures, standards and governance. The role represents Iberia requirements into global technology design and contributes actively to the evolution of Group standards, while ensuring their effective adoption and implementation across Iberia.
The position plays a key role in the continued evolution of UniTech and the Iberia operating model, establishing clear accountability between Iberia teams, Global Technology Design, Group technology functions, Cybersecurity, Product teams and external suppliers.

Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Leadership

• Act as the primary technical advisor to the Head of IT Iberia.

• Define and maintain the Iberia technology strategy and multi-year technology roadmap within the Group technology strategy, target architecture and standards.

• Translate Group technology direction, architectural principles and standards into Iberia implementation priorities, identifying local requirements, constraints and justified exceptions.

• Work in close functional partnership with the Global Head of Technology Design and relevant Group technology leaders, ensuring early alignment on strategic technology and architecture decisions.

• Represent Iberia requirements and priorities into Group technology strategy, architecture and standards, actively contributing to their continued evolution.

• Establish local technology governance, decision-making frameworks and accountability across Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure domains, consistent with Group governance and decision rights.

• Ensure technology strategies, standards and roadmaps address the operational, regulatory and business requirements of both Portugal and Spain while maintaining alignment with Group direction and exceptions are reviewed through the appropriate Group architecture/technology governance forums.

• Partner with Product and Service Management leaders to translate business priorities into sequenced technology roadmaps, ensuring clear accountability between product direction, technical delivery and operational service ownership.

• Resolve cross-domain priorities, architectural conflicts, dependencies and capacity constraints across Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure.

• Lead strategic technology planning and provide recommendations regarding investment priorities, technology evolution and risk trade-offs.

• Drive the evolution of the Iberia technology operating model.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop the managers responsible for Architecture, Interoperability and Infrastructure.

• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, delegation and continuous improvement.

• Establish clear objectives, performance expectations and development plans.

• Build succession capability within all technical domains.

• Support hiring, retention and leadership development of key technical talent.

• Strengthen collaboration between technology teams and business stakeholders.

Architecture & Engineering Leadership

• Lead the implementation and evolution of the Iberia technology architecture in alignment with Group target architecture, technology principles and standards.

• Drive the evolution of core platforms towards more modular, scalable and maintainable architectures.

• Guide major architecture decisions across development and platform initiatives ensuring alignment with Global Technology Design and appropriate Group architecture governance.

• Adopt and operationalise Group engineering and technology standards or, where not available, establish engineering standards covering quality, testing, observability, security and CI/CD in alignment with Global Head of Technology Design

• Reduce technical debt and architectural complexity while maintaining delivery momentum.

• Promote modern…