Senior System Architect - Cloud, Microservices & Security

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS Group; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Private Health Coverage

Flexible Working Hours

Top Tools & Tech

Professional Development

Job summary

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is seeking a System Architect fluent in German to lead architecture decisions for enterprise projects. The role focuses on microservice designs, cloud platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift), and strong IT security alignment.

Based in Germany, you will advise teams, document decisions, and drive knowledge transfer while contributing to a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Fluent command of German (level C2) and English.
• At least 5 years of demonstrable practical experience as architect in enterprise projects.
• Expert knowledge of microservice architectures.
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies (Kubernetes/OpenShift) and containerisation (Docker).
• Experience with security standards and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Make architecture decisions for services and systems, incl. non-functional requirements (performance, security, stability).
• Advise ITZBund specialists and design team on technical requirements and complexity drivers.
• Design architecture in line with security standards (ISO27001, BSI-Grundschutz).
• Continuously improve development architecture and processes.
• Prepare and present information and decision documents.
• Organise knowledge transfer to employees.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in enterprise architecture and microservices.
• Work with relational databases and distributed infrastructure with geo-redundancy.

Skills

German language (C2)

English language

System architecture

Security standards

Enterprise architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Git

Job description

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is seeking a System Architect fluent in German to lead architecture decisions for enterprise projects. The role focuses on microservice designs, cloud platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift), and strong IT security alignment.

Based in Germany, you will advise teams, document decisions, and drive knowledge transfer while contributing to a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.