75% Remote: Cloud Platform Architect f m d

Description de la mission

For our client we are looking for a Cloud Platform Architect (f/m/d)

Frame data:
Start: October 2024
Duration: 31.12.24 ++ (long term)
Capacity: 100% if possible
Location: Berlin / Remote (1 week Berlin / 3 weeks remote in rotation), up to 50% onsite in peak times

Role:
The platform (or portfolio of products) consists of currently seven product lines. Each product line is responsible for a subset of products (or sub-portfolio of products) – e.g. all infrastructure products, all data products, etc.
Each product line therefore includes (among other roles) also an architecture team headed by the lead architect (per product line) defining & designing the product architecture of all product within the product line.
Platform Architecture is not designing nor defining a product architecture but the platform architecture, which means platform architecture is ensuring consistency across all product architectures of all product lines for all architectural viewpoints and artifacts.
Platform Architects therefore work in a team with all (product line) lead architects to assemble all product line architectures into a platform architecture on the one side as well as on the other translate product strategy for the platform into platform architecture and govern product line architectures.

Targets:
As a platform architect you work in the team of platfrom architects (and architecture managers) to define platform architecture by translating product strategy into architecture, govern product line architecture as well as assemble product line architecture into platform architecture.

Skills (must-have):
– A minimum of 5 years of experience as a CTO, part of the Office of the CTO or as platform architect for developer platforms.
– Excellent understanding of cloud and cloud-native architectures & technologies as well as methods & principles.
– Proven ability to develop and communicate a technology strategy.
– Proven ability to model and abstract system architectures.
– Proven ability of platform and product thinking.
– Excellent ability to explain Software Defined Infrastructure, Kubernetes, (Software) Lifecyclemanagement, Automation and providing technolgies as a service.
– Excellent understanding of private clouds and their integration into hybrid clouds.
– Proven ability in the environment of critical infrastructure and understanding of the resulting requirements.
– Solid understanding and experience with distributed applications.
– Solid understanding and experience with distributed DC infrastructure (in particular, no “cloud simply scales” mindset without a resource view).
– Fluent English communication skills in speech and writing (minimum C1 level).

Skills (should-have):
– Fluent German in speech and writing (at least B2).