Your Role

We are currently transforming our existing IT landscape from a traditional service structure to a modern microservice based approach in the cloud. The goal is to offer our customers a state-of-the-art platform that supports and optimizes their collaboration with us. As a Cloud Architect for Digital Platforms and Order Services in the Sales & Marketing IT Team, your primary role is to provide strategic direction and technical leadership to our young and agile engineering teams. Activities within the role:

• Solution Design and Architecture for scalable high-performance applications

• Develop architectural blueprints to guide the development and integration with core enterprise systems

• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and governance frameworks

• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations for new tools and frameworks to enhance marketing capabilities

• Collaborate with marketing stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into a technical solution design

• Drive innovation through the adoption of cloud-native services and modern development practices such as DevOps, CI/CD, and microservices architecture

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions

• Collaborate with IT, security, and other departments to ensure cloud solutions are aligned with enterprise standards and best practices

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and developers

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the reliability and performance of cloud-based marketing applications

• Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans for critical marketing systems

• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost efficiency and performance

Your Profile

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in cloud solution engineering or architecture, ideally with a focus on Microsoft Azure

• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and compliance requirements

• Experience with APIs, microservices, containerization technologies, Infrastructure as Code, and object-oriented programming (C#, ASP.NET Core)

• Knowledge of e-commerce components and architectures

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

• Strong communication and interpersonal skill, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to less-technical stakeholders

• Strong self-motivation for achieving results & personal development

• Open to business trips if required & appropriate

• Fluent in English & German

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