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Eschborn
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Full time
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Unlimited
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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.
We are looking for a Solution Architecture Lead (m/f/d) to build and lead a team of Solution Architects while driving the evolution, resilience, and reliability of our system landscape. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, you translate long-term target architecture into pragmatic guidance and ensure consistent adoption. Furthermore, Solution Architecture and Product share accountability for building sustainable and scalable solutions, balancing business needs with technical excellence.
We are looking for a Solution Architecture Lead (m/f/d) to build and lead a team of Solution Architects while driving the evolution, resilience, and reliability of our system landscape. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, you translate long-term target architecture into pragmatic guidance and ensure consistent adoption. Furthermore, Solution Architecture and Product share accountability for building sustainable and scalable solutions, balancing business needs with technical excellence.
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
