Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Software, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Eschborn
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will lead a team of Solution Architects while developing innovative architectures across engineering domains to optimize solutions and manage technical debt effectively.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects.
- Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
- Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities, ensuring that solutions work seamlessly across different domains.
- Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health.
- Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable the rapid and reliable delivery of future business features.
- Drive measurable improvements in system availability and resilience by defining and enforcing architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2).
- Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing.
- Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers designing and building scalable, secure, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product while promoting modern architectural patterns and governance (e.g., event-driven systems, domain-driven design, API-first).
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems.
- Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Ability to balance speed of delivery with system robustness while managing technical debt to align long-term architectural health with short-term business goals.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability.
- Excellent English skills (written and spoken).
- Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.
Experience
- Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture.
- Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager).
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General Logistics Systems Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
As one of the leading parcel service providers in Germany, we see it as our responsibility to offer our customers top quality. This is ensured by over 8,000 employees nationwide who give their best at around 70 locations. Every year we send over 600 million parcels across Europe thanks to their work.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Logistics, Transportation
Solution Architecture Lead
- Location
- Eschborn
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
