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Cloud Solution Architect

Job

  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    IT, Project, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Heilbronn
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you take technical responsibility for complex customer projects, design high-level architectures, lead migrations, coordinate internal teams, and produce presales artifacts.

    Your role in the team

    • Technical overall responsibility in presales for complex customer projects and strategic opportunities: You lead multiple streams in parallel and actively steer technical decisions.
    • Enterprise Architecture & Target States: Design of resilient high-level and, if necessary, low-level architectures (hybrid/modern), including network, identity, security, and operational models.
    • Migration & Transformation: Definition of migration paths (Re-Hosting, Re-Platforming, Refactoring), roadmaps, risks, dependencies, and handover plans; you evaluate trade-offs (costs, time-to-value, risk).
    • PoC Strategy & Orchestration: You define PoC objectives, success criteria, scope, and resources; you coordinate internal teams and ensure thorough technical documentation.
    • Internal Technical Bracket: Consolidation of all technical customer requirements and active steering of the relevant STACKIT teams (Sales, Product, Engineering, Operations, Consulting/Partner).
    • Standards & Reusability: Ownership of presales artifacts (blueprints, reference architectures, migration playbooks) to enhance quality and speed in presales.
    • Enablement & Mentoring: Technical coaching of colleagues in Presales as well as enablement of partners/SIs (workshops, training sessions, joint proposal/PoC approaches).

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Very strong communication skills (Tech-to-Business) and routine in dealing with IT management/architecture firms.
    • Team player with an ownership mindset and intrinsic motivation to drive things forward.

    Experience

    • Extensive experience in traditional enterprise IT and architecture work (e.g., virtualization, networks, databases, integration patterns, legacy application landscapes).
    • Proven experience in migrations/transformation projects - ideally in a leadership role (planning, steering, stakeholder management, risk management, implementation approach).
    • Solid understanding of cloud computing (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and practical experience with at least one other cloud provider.

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    Benefits

    Work-Life-Integration

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    Job Locations

    • Location Heilbronn

      Baden-Württemberg

      Germany

    This is your employer

    Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

    Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

    The Schwarz Group, based in Neckarsulm, is a significant German conglomerate and one of the largest retail groups in Europe. It operates over 13,900 stores under the brands Lidl and Kaufland and employs around 575,000 people.

    Description

  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Trade
  • Location
    Heilbronn
    Working Model
    Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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