Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, Software, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you define and maintain architecture principles, manage architecture governance, and develop technology roadmaps to ensure continuous alignment between business strategy and technology.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures across one or more domains (Consumer, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Data).
- Own and evolve technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment between business strategy and technical direction.
- Establish and run architecture governance: RFCs, ADRs, design reviews, and architecture review boards.
- Assess and steer major technology and vendor decisions, including build-vs-buy trade-offs.
- Maintain the enterprise architecture landscape (application, data, integration, and technology views) and keep it current and legible to stakeholders.
- Ensure architectural decisions meet enterprise-wide non-functional requirements: security, compliance, scalability, cost, and interoperability.
- Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, product leadership, and engineering teams, translating strategy into actionable technical direction.
- Coaching engineering teams on architectural principles and standards, and reviewing designs for conformance.
- Stay hands-on: validate architectural decisions by building, prototyping, or directly contributing to the platform and tooling that support them, rather than governing at the diagram level alone.
- Design and build the paved paths, templates, and self-service tooling that let product teams ship reliably against the standards you define.
- Build and evolve the tooling and guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic development (agent workflows, tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, human-in-the-loop review points), and encode these practices into the architecture standards you own.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and cost profile of the platform services or reference implementations you build in support of your architecture.
- Reduce toil and cognitive load for product engineering teams by improving CI/CD, provisioning, environments, and internal documentation.
- Take ownership of ambiguous or orphaned technical areas (legacy systems, unowned integrations, unmaintained tooling) and drive them to a stable, well-documented, standards-compliant state.
- Coach and raise the platform-literacy and engineering-practice bar for teams through office hours, pairing, and clear documentation, not just standards documents.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ownership of architecture governance or standards for at least one significant domain.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, integration patterns, and cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to remain hands-on: comfortable building, prototyping, or reviewing code and infrastructure, not only producing diagrams and documents.
- Exposure to data platform tooling (Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake or equivalent), SAP ecosystems, or retail/supply chain systems.
- Vertrautheit mit Domain-Driven Design im Hinblick auf Unternehmens- und Servicegrenzen.
Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including meaningful time in an architecture, platform, or technical-standards capacity.
- Working experience with AI/ML-assisted development tooling, or strong aptitude to build for it quickly.
- Experience mentoring or informally leading engineers outside your immediate team.
- Formal enterprise architecture background or certification (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent framework experience).
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka) at both the standards and implementation level.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, or "golden path" templates (e.g., Backstage or equivalent).
- Experience building or operating agentic AI development pipelines, evaluation frameworks, or AI-assisted CI/CD gates.
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What we offer
- This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you'll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision.
- As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe's most recognizable retail brands, you will also enjoy countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy.
- Access to a Partner Discount Scheme.
- An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores.
- 30 days' vacation.
- Corporate pension scheme.
- Mental health and wellness program.
- An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment.
- A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture.
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About Your Employer
C&A
C&A is a clothing company headquartered in Vilvoorde, Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany. It has over 2000 stores in 23 countries and employs 900,000 people in production alone.
Description
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Industry, Production, Trade
Enterprise Architect
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
