Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
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.
Job Technologies
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.
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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.
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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.
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
Food & Drink
Higher Take-Home Pay
Topics You Will Work On
Job Locations
About Your Employer
METRO AG
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.
Description
- Founding Year
- 1964
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade
Platform Architect - Procurement
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
