Cloud & IoT Software Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Cloud & IoT Software Architect
• Focus: strategic cloud platform architecture and cross-cutting technical leadership
• Working model: hybrid (up to three home office days per week)

Description

You will design the strategic architecture target image for a cloud platform and ensure its sustainable, step-by-step implementation. You will own and communicate cross-cutting architecture decisions across platform structure, integration patterns, data ownership, scalability, and operating models, coordinating architects across multiple products and domains.

Responsibilities

• Develop the strategic architecture target image for the cloud platform and drive sustainable implementation.
• Make and represent overarching architecture decisions for platform structure, integration patterns, data ownership, scalability, and operating models.
• Define architecture principles and guardrails to guide teams and maintain long-term platform consistency.
• Coordinate architects across different products and domains and develop solution approaches together.
• Evaluate technology options and make-or-buy decisions based on strategic value, risks, costs, and future viability.
• Shape further development from existing products into a shared platform, including multi-tenancy, on-premises capability, and secure integration.
• Include security, compliance, availability, testability, and operational readiness as core architecture components from the beginning.
• Advise product management and leadership on strategic initiatives and translate technical implications clearly.

Requirements

• Long-standing experience architecting complex distributed and cloud-based systems.
• Experience in a cross-cutting architecture role supporting multiple architects or development teams.
• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing strategic architecture target states for platforms or large product landscapes.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and platform architectures (scalability, fault tolerance, integration, data architecture, operating models).
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices, and API-based integrations, including awareness of their boundaries.
• Good knowledge of modern cloud technologies: container platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability (conceptual and strategic level).
• Experience with Security by Design and security requirements for networked, business-critical systems.
• Ability to align stakeholders, drive decisions, and advocate across technical and organizational levels.
• Very good German and English skills and a relevant degree, comparable training, or equivalent professional experience.
• Preferred: experience with high-availability payment/transaction systems; multi-tenancy and on-premises cloud deployment; IoT/edge/embedded systems; consolidation of grown product/system landscapes; analytics and streaming architectures; architecture certifications (e.g., iSAQB, TOGAF).

Benefits

• Open, innovative culture with flat hierarchies
• Agile international team
• Fair compensation with support for the Germany ticket
• 30 vacation days plus five flex days
• Hybrid work with up to three home office days per week
• Training opportunities and specialist conferences
• Team events