Cloud Architect

• Contribute to the strategic and technical development of cloud services.
  

• Develop partial and/or overall architectures for the customer's private cloud.
  

• Responsible for the conceptual development of technical service offerings.
  

• Develop architectural concepts and present them to relevant committees such as architecture boards and higher management.
  

• Conduct analysis, documentation, and modelling of complex interrelations.
  

• Define requirements and solution approaches for secure IT architectures within the cloud ecosystem.
  

• Create and maintain technical documentation, security guidelines, and architectural descriptions.
  

• Ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements.
  

• Develop and update policies and best practices to ensure long-term ecosystem security.
  

Requirements

• Solid IT education and several years of professional experience in integration and/or platform architecture within an enterprise environment.
  

• Experience with architecture topics related to cloud solutions and security within enterprise contexts (definition and application).
  

• Good knowledge of architecture development methods and modelling notations (e.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN).
  

• Confident presence with the ability to present and advocate concepts in committees (up to executive management level).
  

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and interconnected thinking; able to illustrate, analyse, and document complex interrelations.
  

• Several years of experience as a solution architect, software architect, or enterprise architect.
  

• Extensive experience designing and documenting overall architectures at the data, application, and technology architecture levels, including microservices architectures and interfaces.
  

• Experience in architecture documentation using UML, Arc42, ArchiMate, or similar templates.
  

• Experience with microservices, application platform as a service, container management together with DevOps teams.
  

• Experience in agile environments (SCRUM, SAFe).
  

• Experience in interface design/implementation with JSON or XML.
  

• Several years of experience in large public organisations and cloud projects.
  

Education and Certifications

• Tertiary level IT degree (Master / Bachelor, ETH/University, FH or equivalent).
  

• Certification as a Certified Professional for Software Architecture (e.g. ISAQB or equivalent). A security certification is also acceptable as proof.
  

Languages (Mandatory)

• Very good written German skills and good English skills.