Lead Cloud Platform Architect (w/m/d)
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale7 days ago
Frankfurt, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the platform architecture across multiple solutions and Agile Release Trains.
- Define the technical target architecture, architecture principles, and binding standards in coordination with enterprise architecture.
- Design the overarching application, integration, and cloud architecture and promote reusable platform capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership to solution architects and resolve architecture decisions, dependencies, non-functional requirements, and trade-offs.
- Ensure consistent implementation of the target architecture with the architecture community of practice.
- Define architectural guardrails and platform-wide quality standards for development, deployment, and operations.
- Evaluate new technologies and AI approaches for their value, risks, and suitability for the platform.
Requirements
- Completed degree in computer science or a comparable qualification.
- At least eight years of experience in software development and complex software and cloud architectures.
- Experience leading multiple teams or solutions in a cross-organizational architecture role.
- Experience developing target architectures and roadmaps and guiding their implementation in large, distributed project organizations.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, Domain-Driven Design, and event-driven systems.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and GitLab.
- Experience with AI-supported tools and the ability to assess their potential and limitations.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps architectures, CI/CD processes, and scaled agile work according to SAFe.
- Ability to account for security, data protection, and regulatory requirements, ideally in financial services.
- Ability to facilitate complex technical decisions collaboratively and communicate architecture decisions effectively in German and English.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation package including a tariff-based or individually agreed salary, 13th-month salary for tariff employees, annual variable compensation, savings benefits, and preferential investment conditions.
- Employer-funded occupational pension, salary-conversion options, disability insurance offers, and group accident insurance.
- 30 days of vacation plus up to six additional compensatory days depending on the contract.
- Flexible working hours, hybrid work, and up to 20 mobile workdays per year within the EU and EFTA countries.
- Career development opportunities, an internal learning platform, mentoring, talent management, and professional development programs.
- Health management programs, an annual health budget, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Support for childcare and eldercare, childcare places, parent-child rooms, discounted Deutschland-Jobticket, IT and bicycle leasing, and discounted cafeteria offers.
- Planned start date: November 1, 2026.
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About DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale is the securities and asset-management arm of Germany’s Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, headquartered in Frankfurt. It develops and distributes investment funds, real-estate funds, certificates, and capital-markets/custody services for retail and institutional clients, largely via the nationwide savings-banks network. The bank also provides financing and securities trading services and is among the largest fund providers in Germany.