Data Architect & DevOps Lead (m/f/d)
In Germany - Berlin | Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main |Hamburg | Munich
Elevateis Simon-Kucher’s dedicated service line for digital consulting projects. Weempower organizations by merging advanced technology with creative businessstrategies, transforming raw data into actionable insights. Our goal is todeliver scalable, robust, and secure digital solutions that accelerate growth.
What makes us special:
* Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
* Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
* Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
* Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
* Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
* Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
* Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
* Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
* Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
* See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party
How you will create an impact:
* Design and implement end-to-end data architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring robust data ingestion, storage, and governance.
* Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to optimize data pipelines and analytics workflows for AI/ML solutions.
* Establish data management best practices to ensure compliance, security, and high availability across the entire organization.
* Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud environments to support mission-critical AI and machine learning applications.
* Define and drive cloud stack design and strategy, focusing on high availability, security, and cost-efficiency.
* Advising the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles, leveraging tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistency and repeatability.
* Design, develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless deployment of AI/ML models into production.
* Orchestrate containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) for efficient application delivery and scaling.
* Establish MLOps best practices, including feature store management, model monitoring, and automated retraining.
* Transition AI/ML prototypes into secure, high-performance production solutions that meet enterprise-level standards.
* Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to maintain system performance and reliability.
* Continuously refine operational processes to improve scalability, fault tolerance, and overall system resilience.
* Work closely with cross-functional teams and clients to translate complex technical needs into effective, scalable infrastructure solutions.
* Provide guidance and mentorship, fostering a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
* Present technical concepts and recommendationsto both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment withbusiness objectives.
About you:
* At least 6 years of relevant industry experience (with a minimum of 3 in a consulting capacity) covering cloud operations, data infrastructure, DevOps, and/or MLOps.
* A standout university degree in a relevant field, with fluency in business English and German.
* Proven success in deploying production-grade data and AI/ML solutions.
* Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience designing cloud-native architectures.
* Strong expertise in DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
* Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling high-availability environments for AI/ML workloads.
* Demonstrated ability to implement robust monitoring, logging, and security practices for data and infrastructure.
* Track record of optimizing system performance and reliability through proactive capacity planning and architectural enhancements.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
* Proven leadership in managing teams through complex infrastructure and data-centric projects, encouraging collaboration and innovation.
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About Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+countries.
Our sole focus is onunlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for ourclients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy– product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights intowhat customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetizationtopics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growthspecialist. simon-kucher.com
We believe in building a culture that embracesdiversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our peoplefeel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. Ifwe get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster,innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people,our clients and, of course, our business.
Your personal contact:
Charlotte Sever
recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com
Please submit your application exclusively via the “Apply now”button!
Better growth starts here. With you.