IoT Platform Architect
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Join us in building the backbone of Doka's next-generation IoT ecosystem. As our IoT Platform Architect, you will design and drive a unified IoT Platform that connects everything from simple sensors to advanced automation machinery and robotics. Your architecture will ensure scalability, reliability, and rapid onboarding of new IoT products-powering the future of Doka's digital portfolio.
You bring our IoT Platform vision to life: defining long-term strategy, establishing standards, and shaping reusable components, while also being hands-on during the platform's build-up phase. Working with product teams, cloud engineering, hardware/firmware experts, and external partners, you will influence the entire IoT lifecycle from device to cloud.
If you enjoy combining architectural depth with practical implementation and want to create a platform used globally across multiple products, this role offers both scale and impact.
Your Tasks
- Define and own the long-term architecture of Doka's unified IoT Platform, meeting key non-functional requirements.
- Actively contribute to early implementation work as the IoT Platform team forms and grows.
- Consolidate existing IoT products into shared services, standards, and reusable platform components.
- Design scalable event-driven ingestion and communication patterns (Azure Event Hub, Event Grid, Kafka).
- Shape device and machine lifecycle management: provisioning, identity, telemetry, OTA updates, diagnostics.
- Establish platform-wide guidelines for connecting sensors, industrial devices, automation systems, and robotics.
- Provide architectural leadership, mentoring, and cross-team alignment without formal reporting lines.
Requirements
- Strong experience as an IoT Architect, Platform Engineer, or Cloud/Device Ecosystem Architect in production environments.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure IoT Hub, IoT Edge, secure device connectivity, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Azure Event Hub / Event Grid or similar streaming technologies (Kafka).
- Understanding of telemetry flows and time-series data storage (e.g., PostgreSQL + Timescale).
- Knowledge of IoT connectivity protocols such as Bluetooth Mesh, LoRa, and MQTT.
- Experience with DevOps & Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to guide teams and articulate complex concepts.
- Hands-on mindset paired with strategic thinking-comfortable architecting and building in equal measure.
- Fluent English and solid German language skills to work effectively in an international environment.
Benefits & conditions
- A key role in shaping Doka's global IoT Platform, working with modern cloud technologies and diverse device ecosystems - from sensors to advanced automation machinery.
- Modern work culture with empowered product teams and clear customer focus
- Possibility to work from 3 different offices across Austria (Vienna, Linz, Amstetten), combined with an international work environment (60 countries) and flat hierarchies (minimum 1-2 days per week Amstetten office)
- Personal development and career growth opportunities
A salary in line with the market is offered for this position, which is based on the specific qualification and adequate professional experience.
We are required by law to state a minimum salary. The minimum annual gross salary for this position is € 47.587,- according to the collective agreement (woodworking industry).
