Job Description
Main roles and responsibilities:
* Design a scalable, robust and secure system architecture for vaylens’ cloud-based EV charging application landscape (a charge point management system with microservice architecture based on Java/Spring Boot with Angular frontends).
* Drive the technical vision of our software landscape ensuring that it is adaptable to future business growth, market trends, and emerging technologies.
* Analyse business requirements, specify them in the form of use cases (inc. description of necessary system interfaces as a sequence diagram) and define associated overarching data models.
* Develop sustainable software concepts that balance performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability in the role of a solution architect.
* Define cloud infrastructure requirements in collaboration with DevOps and ensure alignment with modern cloud-native best practices.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, project managers, developers, and DevOps engineers, in a scaled agile environment ensuring the long-term architecture runway.
* Act as a technical mentor, guiding development teams, reviewing designs, using architectural best practices, and identifying potential risks early.
* Pitch and coordinate strategic architecture projects within our system landscape.
* Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications
Experiences and requirements:
* University degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Business Informatics or similar education
* 3+ years of professional experience as (Solution/Enterprise/Integration/Software) Architect in distributed systems and cloud-native microservice landscapes
* 5+ years of professional experience in the area of software development in the Java Enterprise/Spring environment
* Extensive experience in designing and implementing distributed systems in cloud-native environments as well as proficiency Kubernetes
* Experience with software quality assurance, including load and performance testing
* Solid understanding of agile methodologies and experience in scaled agile environments (ideally organized with SAFe)
* Relevant certifications in the field of architecture
* Analytical mindset with excellent understanding of complex technical relationships and hardware-software communication
* Ability to present and communicate complex solution designs in a simple manner
* Strong ability to solve challenging problems independently as well as to work collaboratively in distributed international teams
* Ideally, experience in the field of e-mobility
* Fluent in German and English
* Travel requirements: generally remote position and traveling only as per need, usually around 16 working days per year to headquarter in Dortmund or similar KOSTAL locations