Denoising
I followed the advice given in the feature documentation and opted for the Intel Open Image Denoise library. Implementing the denoiser allowed me to render my final image with fewer samples (just 2048), since the denoiser was able to remove the remaining noise.
Once I had succeeded in including the library in the CMake pipeline, I closely followed the examples provided in their documentation and did not encounter any problems.

The left image shows a section of the raw render, the right image the denoised one.