Cloud Solution Architect (IoT / Onecta Platform)

Daikin group; Oost-Vlaanderen; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Attractive fringe benefits

Hybrid work model

Résumé du poste

Daikin group is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect focused on the IoT cloud platform in Ghent, East Flanders. The role involves designing scalable and secure architectures while bridging various teams and ensuring compliance with regulations.

You will utilize your expertise in cloud-native technologies while continuously improving our platform. This permanent role includes attractive benefits and hybrid working flexibility.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required.
• Experience in cloud or software architecture, IoT beneficial.
• Strong understanding of distributed and microservice architectures.

Responsabilités

• Design and evolve architecture for IoT cloud platform.
• Define and maintain end-to-end architecture.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Connaissances

API design

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

DevOps

Integration patterns

Formation

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Outils

AWS

Terraform

Description du poste

Job Location

Ghent, East Flanders, BE

About EDC

Within the EMEA Development Centre (EDC), the Electrics and Controls department is responsible for the development of connected solutions across Daikin’s product portfolio, including embedded systems, mobile applications, and cloud platforms.

Our cloud ecosystem (including Onecta and related services) plays a central role in enabling smart, connected HVAC solutions, integrating devices, installers, partners, and digital services into a scalable and future‑proof platform.

Your Role

As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will design and evolve the architecture of our IoT cloud platform, ensuring it remains scalable, secure, and aligned with evolving business and regulatory needs.

You act as a central technical authority, bridging product teams, development teams, and external partners, and ensuring end‑to‑end architectural consistency across our ecosystem.

You will play a key role in continuously improving the Onecta platform architecture, adapting it to new use cases such as integrations, APIs, data‑driven services, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define, document, and maintain the end‑to‑end architecture of our IoT cloud platform (device → cloud → apps → integrations)
• Translate business needs into scalable, robust, and future‑proof technical architectures
• Ensure alignment across cloud services, APIs, mobile apps, and device communication layers
• Drive architectural decisions balancing performance, cost, scalability, and reliability
• Support the evolution of the platform towards API‑first and integration‑friendly architectures, data‑driven services and analytics use cases, and multi‑application and multi‑stakeholder ecosystems (end‑users, installers, partners)
• Identify gaps, technical debt, and improvement opportunities in the current architecture
• Validate architectural choices through proof‑of‑concepts and technical evaluations

Security, Compliance & Reliability

• Ensure security‑by‑design principles are embedded in the architecture
• Take into account regulatory requirements (e.g., CRA, NIS2) and operational constraints
• Design with observability, maintainability, and operational supportability in mind
• Collaborate with security and operations roles to ensure production readiness
• Work closely with development teams, product owners, and other architects to ensure implementation aligns with architecture
• Act as a technical counterpart towards external partners and suppliers
• Support and guide teams in making consistent architectural decisions
• Facilitate architecture reviews and cross‑team alignment

Operational Awareness

• Stay connected to real‑world platform behavior (incidents, performance issues, operational feedback)
• Ensure architecture decisions consider run‑time implications and support processes
• Contribute to improving platform stability and operational efficiency

Your Profile

Experience & Background

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience in cloud architecture or software architecture (IoT experience is a strong asset)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice‑based architectures
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably AWS)

Technical Knowledge

You bring experience with modern cloud‑native and IoT architectures, including:

• Strong understanding of API design and integration patterns (REST, OAuth2, API gateways)
• Event‑driven architectures and asynchronous communication
• Designing scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Experience with technologies and patterns such as MQTT‑based communication, IoT platforms (e.g., AWS IoT Core), serverless architectures and/or containerized services, NoSQL databases and event streaming systems, API gateways (e.g., Kong), and microservice communication patterns
• DevOps & automation: modern CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Familiarity with observability (logging, monitoring, tracing) and cloud security concepts (IAM, secure APIs, network isolation)

Our Offer

This challenging position offers growth opportunities at the European headquarters of a global leading company. We offer a permanent contract for an indefinite period. From the start you can count on thorough training and intensive support. Your competitive salary is supplemented with an attractive package of fringe benefits.

Hybrid: You will have the possibility to work from home 2 days per week.