Solution Architecture Lead (m/f/d)

GLS IT Services GmbH; Eschborn; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Employee discounts

Attractive working environment

Comprehensive onboarding

Zusammenfassung

GLS IT Services GmbH in Eschborn seeks a Solution Architect to lead and develop a high-performing team. The role involves owning the architecture vision, managing system availability, and ensuring alignment across engineering domains.

Ideal candidates have a degree in computer science and significant experience in Software Architecture and team leadership. Opportunities for professional growth within an open corporate culture await you.

Qualifikationen

• Several years of experience in Software or Solution Architecture.
• Leadership experience as team lead or architecture manager.
• Strong hands-on background in modern programming languages.
• Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability.

Aufgaben

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Solution Architects.
• Own the Solution Architecture vision across multiple domains.
• Drive architectural alignment ensuring solutions work seamlessly.
• Improve system availability and resilience through architectural standards.

Kenntnisse

Solution Architecture

Software Engineering

Cloud Platforms

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Leadership

Ausbildung

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

• Eschborn
• Full time
• Unlimited
• Immediately

From mobile app to parcel routing - there is always sophisticated IT behind it all. As an internal service provider for the GLS Group, we develop, organize and are responsible for the entire IT for around 862 million parcels in over 49 countries worldwide. In the future we will add more countries to our GLS family.

What can you expect with us?

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects
• Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture
• Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities, ensuring that solutions work seamlessly across different domains
• Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health
• Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable the rapid and reliable delivery of future business features
• Drive measurable improvements in system availability and resilience by defining and enforcing architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2)
• Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing
• Provide hands‑on guidance to product teams and engineers designing and building scalable, secure, cloud‑native, and fault‑tolerant distributed systems
• Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product while promoting modern architectural patterns and governance (e.g., event-driven systems, domain-driven design, API-first)

What do you bring to the table?

• Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background
• Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture
• Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager)
• Strong hands‑on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems
• Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Ability to balance speed of delivery with system robustness while managing technical debt to align long-term architectural health with short-term business goals
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability
• Excellent English skills (written and spoken)
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe

What do we bring to the table?

• Onboarding

Onboarding

We will provide you with a comprehensive onboarding, where you will get to know important points of contact.

• Great team

Great team

An open corporate culture is important to us. That's why a dedicated team is waiting for you, one that will welcome you warmly and be ready to help you.

• Employee discounts via corporate benefits

Employee discounts via corporate benefits

You get versatile employee discounts at various online portals.

• Attractive working environment

Attractive working environment

You can expect an attractive working environment close to top management with room for your own ideas, flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths.

Interested?

How do you get there?

Who are we?

More than 800 million parcels worldwide, over 9,000 employees at around 70 locations nationwide - that's us: GLS Germany. One of the leading parcel service providers in Germany. Our mission? Whether it's filled shelves in shops or happy online shoppers - we make a valuable contribution by connecting people and places. Become part of our success story and shape the future with us!

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