Senior / Distinguished Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, resilient software architectures that support enterprise-grade operational excellence and drive business impact
• Own the technical roadmap for assigned product lines, ensuring alignment with business strategy and proactive identification of emerging risks and opportunities
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices across engineering teams, driving consistency and quality across the portfolio
• Drive, Lead, mentor and develop teams of senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within your organization
• Drive critical technical decisions at the enterprise level, evaluating trade-offs between performance, scalability, cost, and time-to-market while handling technical debt strategically
• Collaborate with product leadership, customer success teams, and business collaborators across the whole organization to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and long-term strategies
• Champion innovation initiatives and emerging technologies, evaluating their applicability and potential value to our product roadmap and competitive positioning
• Lead multi-functional initiatives that span multiple teams or business units, ensuring seamless integration and alignment across the organization
• Represent technical leadership both internally and externally, including customer engagements, technical forums, and industry events

• Strong hands-on software engineering and architecture experience as a senior architect or principal engineer, successfully translating complex business problems into elegant technical solutions
• Validated expertise in designing and implementing highly scalable, distributed systems with deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, and modern DevOps practices
• Exceptional leadership capabilities with a track record of building, mentoring, and scaling multiple high-performing teams of architects in a sophisticated, matrix organization
• Expert-level knowledge of modern technology stacks relevant to operations software, including but not limited to: AI technologies, cloud & edge platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Anthropic, ...), databases and enterprise integration
• Proven track record to influence at the executive level, drive consensus across competing interests, and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience shipping production software at scale, with demonstrated ownership of systems supporting millions of users or critical business-critical operations
• Demonstrated expertise in industrial operations, production systems, and software platforms supporting manufacturing, automation, and operational excellence.

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