Job
- Level
- Lead
- Location
- Stuhr
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop IT architecture strategies, moderate architecture reviews, and continuously advise management and business units while creating transparent, future-ready solutions and coaching the team.
Your role in the team
- You lead and develop the Architecture Management area and actively shape the further growth of the team.
- You define the strategic direction for the further development of the IT landscape and collaboratively develop the IT target architecture along with IT, business units, and management, including the associated transformation roadmaps.
- You develop and establish architecture principles, standards, and decision-making processes for enterprise, solution, and business architecture, embed them sustainably within the organization, and ensure their consistent application.
- You provide orientation in complex projects by managing and moderating architecture reviews at the project and portfolio level, as well as ensuring the quality of architectural decisions.
- You act as a sparring partner:in for management, specialist departments, IT management, as well as project and program managers, on equal footing, translating business requirements into sustainable and future-proof solutions.
- You create transparency in goal conflicts between short-term requirements and long-term architectural objectives, facilitate decision-making, and take responsibility for sustainable solutions.
- You sustainably develop the IT landscape through standardization, consolidation, and targeted reduction of technical debt, redundancies, and unnecessary complexity.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- You hold a degree in (Business) Informatics, a comparable IT-related degree program, or an equivalent qualification. Alternatively, you have completed IT training and possess extensive relevant professional experience.
Qualifications
- You enjoy developing people as well as technical topics.
- You possess a solid understanding of modern IT landscapes, particularly cloud and hybrid scenarios, APIs, and data platforms.
- You are confident in handling architecture governance, architecture decisions, and architecture reviews.
- You understand business processes and economic contexts, think end-to-end, and connect strategic ambitions with pragmatic decisions.
- You communicate confidently with management, departments, and IT at eye level, can mediate goal conflicts, and convince even without hierarchy ego or formal authority.
- You have very good German language skills at least at C1 level as well as proficient English skills at least at C1 level.
- You possess a Class B driver's license.
Experience
- You have extensive experience in architecture roles, ideally with 10 to 15 years of professional experience in enterprise, solution, or application architecture.
- You have gained experience with complex IT landscapes as well as transformation and digitalization projects.
- You have initial or extensive leadership experience and have managed teams technically and/or disciplinarily.
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What we offer
- Employee Academy: To advance professionally, you will find numerous training opportunities in our academy - whether online or in person.
- Attractive employee discounts: With our employee discounts, you benefit from attractive prices on products in our range.
- Canteen: Our canteen offers you delicious food at an attractive price.
- Language courses: Hola, bonjour, and ciao! With our attractive language programs, you'll be traveling confidently everywhere.
- Corporate Fitness: As a balance to your job, you can expect an attractive corporate fitness program. This way, you stay fit and healthy.
- Flexible working hours: Our flexitime model allows you to perfectly balance work and family.
- Employee events: Spend time with colleagues outside of the office routine and in a relaxed atmosphere – regular events strengthen team cohesion.
- Bike leasing: Thanks to attractive bike leasing offers, switching to cycling becomes even easier.
- Mobile working: The mix is key. We value the social campfire in the office and the flexibility of remote work.
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About Your Employer
CORDES & GRAEFE KG
As the holding company of GC-GRUPPE, CORDES & GRAEFE KG is the market leader in German wholesale for home technology. We provide the over 20,000 employees in Germany and 16 other countries with the required information, materials and services so that the 150 medium-sized companies can operate smoothly.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Industry, Production, Trade
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IT Lead Architecture
- Location
- Stuhr
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
