Regulatory Affairs jobs in Germany

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The Central IT Enterprise Applications team is responsible for shaping and running our enterprise AI orchestration platform. We work at the intersection of business, data/AI, and infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and value-driven integration of AI capabilities into our business applications. Our team collaborates closely with stakeholders across the organization to deliver innovative AI solutions that meet governance, security, and quality standards.

• Design, implement, and maintain the AI orchestration platform as part of our enterprise application landscape (e.g. APIs, MCP connectors, model routing, monitoring, security and access layers).
• Define technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable components for integrating AI solutions, in close collaboration with Central IT infrastructure and cloud teams.
• Work with business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and refine AI use cases that can be delivered via the AI orchestration platform.
• Coordinate with data scientists, application owners, and external partners to design robust, scalable, and maintainable end-to-end AI solution architectures.
• Establish governance, standards, and operating procedures for AI usage (including data protection, responsible AI, model lifecycle management, access control, logging, and monitoring).
• Oversee incident and change management, as well as continuous improvement of AI services in production, ensuring stable operations and compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Develop and maintain the AI platform roadmap in alignment with our enterprise application and cloud strategies, including build-vs-buy decisions and technology selection.
• Manage relationships with AI and cloud vendors, negotiate and monitor contracts and SLAs, and contribute to planning and controlling the budget for AI platforms and services.
• Offer technical leadership to AI engineers, developers, and partner teams working with the AI orchestration platform (e.g. best practices, code and architecture reviews, platform standards).
• Enable and upskill key stakeholders (product owners, developers, super users) through guidelines, documentation, and training to foster consistent and effective AI adoption across the organization.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related technical field, or a comparable qualification with strong practical experience in AI/ML and enterprise IT.
• Professional certifications in cloud platforms or AI/ML (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, MLOps) are a plus.
• Typically 9–10 years of experience in enterprise IT or digital product development.
• Proven experience in designing and operating data/AI or integration platforms in a complex, international environment.
• Track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives (ideally involving AI/ML, automation, or advanced analytics) and working closely with business stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts (e.g. model lifecycle, MLOps, LLMs, orchestration, monitoring) and their integration into enterprise applications and processes.
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native architectures and services relevant for AI platforms (e.g. containerization, APIs, event-driven architectures, identity & access management).
• Ability to design and communicate end-to-end solution architectures, bridging business requirements and technical implementation.
• Familiarity with operating models, governance, and risk/compliance for data and AI (information security, privacy, responsible AI principles).
• Strategic and analytical mindset with the ability to turn abstract business needs into actionable AI platform and solution designs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to align diverse groups and explain complex technical topics in a clear, accessible way.
• Ability to provide technical leadership without formal line responsibility, coordinating and guiding virtual, cross-functional, and external teams.
• High degree of ownership, reliability, and solution orientation; comfortable in a dynamic environment and motivated to drive change and innovation.
• Fluent written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage.

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