Solution Architect - Market Sourcing & System Planning (f/m/d)
Elia Group2 days ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Own target and solution architecture for the Remedial Action and Capacity Management domains across the full IT solution lifecycle.
- Translate business, regulatory, and technical requirements into secure, sustainable, and cost-effective architectures.
- Design and evolve application, data, and integration architectures, including technical roadmaps, architecture standards, and interfaces with 4ÜNB solutions and external market partners.
- Ensure architecture compliance and adherence to IT governance, security, data protection, and KRITIS requirements.
- Analyze and manage technical dependencies, risks, and optimization opportunities across systems, services, and organizational boundaries.
- Advise projects and product teams on solution design, technology selection, and strategic architecture decisions.
- Collaborate with business units, product and service teams, IT security, infrastructure, and platform teams.
- Represent 50Hertz in national and international architecture and subject-matter committees of the 4ÜNB and Elia Group.
Requirements
- Completed degree in computer science, business informatics, engineering, or a comparable qualification.
- Several years of experience as a Solution Architect, Software or Systems Architect, Enterprise Architect, or in a comparable role responsible for complex IT solutions.
- Strong knowledge of modern application, integration, and platform architectures, particularly APIs, middleware, data flows, and cloud, on-premise, and hybrid solutions.
- Experience developing target architectures, transformation and migration strategies, and managing technical dependencies across multiple systems and services.
- Experience with architecture governance and developing, documenting, and enforcing architecture decisions, target-state models, and roadmaps.
- Knowledge of IT service management and ITIL, and experience building secure, stable, and economical IT solutions.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills and experience working with business units, product and service owners, development teams, IT security, infrastructure, and platform teams.
- Independent and proactive working style and experience using AI-supported tools in a professional context.
- Negotiation-level German and English proficiency, at least C1, in written and spoken communication.
- Preferred: experience with Redispatch, Capacity Management, market communication, or comparable energy-sector processes.
- Preferred: experience designing and developing applications and solution architectures for critical infrastructure environments and knowledge of information-security standards such as ISO 27001.
Benefits
- Two-year fixed-term contract, full-time at 37 hours per week, based in Berlin-Mitte.
- Flexible working hours, a long-term working-time account, unlimited flex days, and no core working hours.
- Mobile working, including partial work from home.
- Comprehensive onboarding and individual training opportunities.
- 30 days of annual leave, company pension scheme, and a collegial working environment.
- Professional advisory services covering mental health, care, legal matters, finances, and more.