Job Description
Your Responsibilities:
* Define Platform Architecture Strategy & Roadmap - Set the vision for how the platform evolves, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architectural principles. Define the target solution landscape, manage cross-platform dependencies, and drive roadmap execution;
* Design Scalable & Secure Architectures - Create robust designs that balance performance, reliability, cost, and security, while meeting business and compliance requirements;
* Select and Govern Technology - Evaluate and choose tools/technologies, establish standards and guardrails, and guide design decisions across squads in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and the Design Council;
* Ensure Operational Excellence - Drive automation, observability, resilience, and performance improvements. Monitor platform KPIs and recommend architecture changes to continuously improve reliability and efficiency;
* Maintain & Evolve Architecture Documentation - Keep architectural artifacts up to date as a single source of truth for stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required key competencies and qualifications:
* Technical Architecture Expertise:
* Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and best practices.
* Proficiency in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
* Proven experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices, and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
* Strong knowledge of API-led connectivity and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
* Expertise in Middleware and Integration tools, with hands-on or architectural experience in technologies such as: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Google Apigee, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), API Gateway, JMS, XML/XSLT, and EDI.
* Solid experience in cloud-native integration and hybrid cloud connectivity.
* Familiarity with ETL/ELT tools and data integration pipelines.
* Proficiency in building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
* Strong scripting and programming skills in technologies such as Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Python, and Groovy.
* Strategic & Systems Thinking - Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Skilled at balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
* Governance & Standards - Strong grasp of technology governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Ability to define and enforce architectural guardrails without stifling innovation.
* Collaboration & Influence - Effective at working across squads, product teams, and enterprise architects. Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and business leaders.
* Operational Excellence Mindset – DevOps/SRE experience, particularly in deployment automation, environment configuration, observability, and monitoring. Ability to interpret platform KPIs and drive continuous improvements.
* Documentation & Knowledge Management - Disciplined in maintaining architecture artifacts in tools like LeanIX, Confluence, and SharePoint.
* Innovation & Future Readiness - Awareness of emerging technologies (cloud, container orchestration, AI/ML, serverless, edge computing). Capable of running PoCs and evaluating new trends for platform adoption.
Additional Information
What we offer at METRO.digital?
* Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment.
At METRO.digital, we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of self-organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup.
* People development: when you grow so do we!
We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career.
* Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring!
We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.
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Position grade within our career framework: Technical Architect Grade 2 (Md9).