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Volkswagen Group

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

Transport • Automotive • Manufacturing

Volkswagen Group is a globally recognized automotive manufacturer that offers a wide range of vehicles and services through various brands. The company is dedicated to innovation in electric mobility, research and development, and production processes. With positions available around the world across numerous sectors within the automotive industry, Volkswagen Group focuses on providing exceptional career opportunities in a dynamic work environment.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the architectural vision at ART level and for cross-cutting concerns, aligned with Business Owners and across brands. • Steer architecture work at team level (software architects / tech leads), translating stakeholder requirements into technical concepts. • Own the system's cloud-based infrastructure. • Drive cost-benefit assessments of architectural alternatives, including monetary evaluation and risk analysis. • Validate decisions through POCs, determining costs and verification strategies. • Ensure alignment with Group-wide technical platforms, coordinating networking and platform requirements. • Break down technical requirements into manageable units and lead technical reviews for major changes or architecture extensions. • Determine capacity allocation for enablement work with product management as part of the PM / SA / RTE triad during PI Planning. • Ensure best software development practices across Agile teams in the ART. • Define and manage critical NFRs in coordination with business requirements, providing visibility into their architectural impact and alternative solutions. • Design reliable monitoring and alerting systems for proactive issue mitigation. • Collaborate with the Solution Architect on release management and cross-ART technology alignment. • Define architecture guidelines that enable the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, including its constraints and boundaries. • Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment configurations. • Identify and eliminate delivery blockers across Agile teams; act as Delivery Advocate, sharing knowledge and team agreements.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in Software Engineering. • 7+ years' experience, including at least 3 as a System/Platform Architect. • Experience in SAFe environments; System Architect role within an ART preferred. • Hands-on experience designing and operating workloads on AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code. • Experience with Java, Spring Boot, and ideally Kotlin. • Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling and security requirements in cloud-native environments. • Proven ability to define and maintain architecture documentation (e.g., arc42, TOGAF). • Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders, comfortable aligning with Business Owners, product management, and cross-brand teams. • Fluent German ; English and/or Spanish proficiency.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed. • Access to professional development tools and free language courses. • Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs. • A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts.