Lead Architect & Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Are you looking for an architecture role where you don't just optimize existing structures in an IT environment that has grown over decades? As a Lead Architect & Platform Engineer, you will have the opportunity to rebuild central parts of a modern cloud and platform architecture and to co-design standards, integration patterns, and technical guardrails yourself. Apply now and help build the technological foundation for the company's next stage of development.

Your Benefits as a Lead Architect & Platform Engineer

• Scope for Design: Help build modern cloud and platform architectures and have a say in which technologies and standards will be used long-term.

• Flexibility: Largely shape your workday yourself and work flexibly from home or your place of residence in Germany. Your willingness to attend on-site for important workshops and appointments is expected.

• Workation: Use up to four weeks of workation within the EU and, by agreement, possibly beyond.

• Retirement Provision: Benefit from a company pension plan with a 50 percent employer contribution.

• Development: Utilize individual further training, language courses, and personal learning opportunities.

• Environment: Work with flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes, and high personal responsibility in an international environment.

• Compensation: Look forward to an attractive overall package with a variable component that corresponds to your experience and technical expertise.

Your Responsibilities as a Lead Architect & Platform Engineer

• Architecture: Further develop the cloud target architecture as well as microservices, data layer, and AI services.

• Cloud Platform: Design landing zones, networks, identity concepts, and governance structures.

• DevOps: Develop standards for CI/CD, releases, and infrastructure as code.

• Integration: Define architecture and integration patterns for APIs, events, and batch interfaces.

• Security: Consider security, monitoring, resilience, high availability, and regulatory requirements.

• Data & AI: Translate data and AI strategies into concrete architectural building blocks and integration patterns.

• Sparring: Support development, infrastructure, security, and business departments with technical decisions.

Your Profile

• Studies: A completed degree in IT or a comparable qualification.

• Architecture: Several years of experience as a Solution, Cloud, or Enterprise Architect in complex IT landscapes.

• Hands-on: Practical programming experience and a pronounced technical understanding.

• Cloud: Very good knowledge of modern cloud, network, and identity architectures, ideally with Azure experience.

• Technologies: Experience with microservices, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern platform architectures.

• Industry: Experience in banking, insurance, investment, or a comparable financial environment, as well as in modern cloud or SaaS environments.

• Communication: Very good English skills and the ability to communicate complex technical decisions comprehensibly.

Are you tired of just optimizing existing structures piece by piece and want to build something from scratch again? Then now is the right time to contribute your experience to a newly emerging IT architecture.

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