Platform Architect - Procurement

METRO AG

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In this role, you will define the platform architecture strategy and roadmap, design scalable and secure architectures, and ensure operational excellence through automation and monitoring.

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Your role in the team

  • Define Platform Architecture Strategy & Roadmap - Set the vision for how the platform evolves, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architectural principles. Define the target solution landscape, manage cross-platform dependencies, and drive roadmap execution.
  • Design scalable & secure architectures - Create robust designs that balance performance, reliability, cost, and security, while meeting business and compliance requirements.
  • Select and Govern Technology - Evaluate and choose tools/technologies, establish standards and guardrails, and guide design decisions across squads in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and the Design Council.
  • Ensure Operational Excellence - Drive automation, observability, resilience, and performance improvements. Monitor platform KPIs and recommend architecture changes to continuously improve reliability and efficiency.
  • Maintain & Evolve Architecture Documentation - Keep architectural artifacts up to date as a single source of truth for stakeholders.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Strategic & Systems Thinking - Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Skilled at balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
  • Technical Architecture Expertise - Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and microservices. Proficiency in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
  • Governance & Standards - Strong grasp of technology governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Ability to define and enforce architectural guardrails without stifling innovation.
  • Collaboration & Influence - Effective at working across squads, product teams, and enterprise architects. Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and business leaders.
  • Operational Excellence Mindset - Knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices, automation, observability, and monitoring. Ability to interpret platform KPIs and drive continuous improvements.
  • Documentation & Knowledge Management - Disciplined in maintaining architecture artifacts in tools like LeanIX, Confluence, and SharePoint.
  • Innovation & Future Readiness - Awareness of emerging technologies (cloud, container orchestration, AI/ML, serverless, edge computing). Capable of running PoCs and evaluating new trends for platform adoption.

What we offer

  • At METRO.digital, you'll work in a dynamic, multicultural environment where self-organizing teams collaborate in an agile setup. We foster strong teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning to help you thrive and make an impact.
  • People development: when you grow so do we! We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career.
  • Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring! We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.

Benefits

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Job locations

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  • Location Dusseldorf
    Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

About your employer

METRO is a leading international wholesaler of food and non-food products, catering to the needs of hotels, restaurants and caterers (HoReCa) as well as independent retailers.

Founding year
1964
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Trade
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Platform Architect - Procurement

METRO AG