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In this role, you will bridge the gap between business and IT by developing viable solution concepts, evaluating technologies, and overseeing their implementation to create sustainable integration strategies and architectural processes.
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Your role in the team
- You identify, evaluate, and establish new technologies and platforms for the digital future of a modern energy provider.
- Together with Business, Product, Engineering, and our central functions, you develop solutions that deliver real value and fit into our IT landscape over the long term.
- Technology Scouting & Evaluation: Assessing new solutions and platforms—from marketing automation and voice bots to customer engagement, AI, and process platforms.
- Solution Design: Developing robust solution architectures while taking business requirements, integration, security, and operations into account.
- Platform implementation: Supporting new technologies from the initial idea through selection and piloting to successful implementation.
- Architectural Governance: Ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture processes, security requirements, and corporate standards.
- Technical Vendor & Partner Management: Evaluation of manufacturers, products, and service providers, as well as support throughout technical due diligence processes.
- Integration Strategy: Designing sustainable integration concepts for APIs, data flows, and platforms within our system landscape.
- Technology roadmap and strategy: Support with technology decisions and the development of target visions for future platforms and solutions as part of the IT strategy.
- AI-native Working: Using modern AI tools for analysis, documentation, decision-making, and accelerating architecture processes.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Good knowledge of modern cloud, SaaS, and API-based architectures.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to business and management stakeholders.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and governance requirements in larger corporate environments.
- Excellent communication skills, pragmatism, and decisiveness.
- A strong drive to shape things and a passion for advancing new technologies and innovative solutions.
- Very good German and English skills (at least B2).
Experience
- Several years of experience as a Solution Architect, Technology Architect, or in comparable technology-focused roles.
- Experience in selecting, evaluating, and implementing software platforms and technology solutions, ideally in the energy sector.
- Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
What we offer
- We have been recognized by Great Place to Work as an attractive employer and offer you a dynamic, exciting, and flexible work environment where something new develops every day.
- Your ideas matter to us. They are heard and put into action.
- A highly motivated team with a flat hierarchy and short communication channels.
- A workplace in the heart of Cologne and the opportunity to work in a hybrid setup.
- Lots of fun at work and as part of the team.
- Competitive compensation and 30 days of annual leave.
- Subsidized public transport pass and free parking.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
Higher take-home pay
Food & drink
Topics you will work on
Job locations
About your employer
At E.ON, we are committed to making the energy world more efficient and intelligent. Through innovative customer solutions and unique energy networks, we can improve the quality of life for people around the world. Our headquarters is in Essen, from where we coordinate our international activity.
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Power Sector, Economy
Employer reviews
- Team culture
- 3.5
- Working conditions
- 4.0
- Career growth
- 3.2
- Engineering
- 2.7
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