System Architect

As part of the central System Architecture team within Business IT, you also work closely with peer architects, engaging in regular exchange to ensure a consistent, high-quality enterprise-wide architecture and jointly report to the Lead System & Enterprise Architecture, Markus., * Join a strategically critical transformation as we renew our core systems and expand our Global Data Platform - shaping the technological backbone of our future business.

• Take architectural ownership for the Information Management business unit

You won't just design systems - you will influence strategy, enable teams, and shape the long-term technical direction of a business-critical data platform.

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture: Shape the architectural direction of the Information Management domain, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure and future-proof solutions.
• Design modern, cloud-native systems: Architect data-driven platforms with a strong focus on AWS, serverless patterns, modularity, and maintainability.
• Align business and technology: Translate strategic objectives into actionable solution designs and architectural blueprints that engineering teams can execute with confidence.
• Drive architectural consistency: Work closely with fellow System Architects to maintain coherence across business units and contribute to enterprise-wide standards.
• Enable and mentor: Act as a trusted advisor and sparring partner to engineers, product stakeholders and leadership. Coach teams on best practices, architectural patterns and technical decision-making.
• Balance impact and pragmatism: Make thoughtful trade-offs between scalability, performance, security, cost and delivery timelines.

• Proven knowledge with AWS, including designing of serverless systems.
• Solid experience in a System Architect or Solution Architect role.
• Strong consulting skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders and development teams effectively.
• Hands-on experience with data-driven architectures such as data mesh, lakehouse architectures, and metadata management.
• Openness for applying AI tooling to architecting, coding, and documenting
• Solid understanding of data quality, data catalog, data observability, and data lineage principles
• English communication skills (spoken and written).

We offer a wide range of benefits. As our positions are advertised in various locations the benefits may vary. Therefore, below you will only find those that apply to all locations-for details, please speak to the recruiter, who will be happy to answer your questions.

Contracts, Salary, and non-monetary benefits

Remote hybrid: we work 80-100% remotely; however, we have regular on-site team events.

Structured Onboarding: you receive an individual onboarding plan, have multiple onboarding days in the beginning, and a wealth of e-learning, training, and documentation besides your team at your disposal.

Set-up: for this we will provide you with a tailored tech set-up (Dell devices, the standard remote package includes a notebook, 2monitors, headset, mobile phone, mouse + keyboard, docking station).

️ Balance job & life: Flexible working hours: you decide where and when you work.

We are TecAlliance - founded by more than 30 automotive aftermarket companies as a neutral Data-as-a-Service market connector, serving as the neutral data terrain that interconnects them. With over 1,000 employees worldwide and customers in 140 countries, we enable the market - we never compete with it., "The different business units have different needs and differences in their technology stacks, so that gives us different perspectives and room for interesting discussions. We share what works well, but you won't be doing cookie-cutter work. You'll work in an environment where proven systems meet modern cloud technologies - valuing both solid engineering experience and a forward-looking, state-of-the-art mindset. It's great to be part of a global company and work with people around the world on a daily basis.", ️ Kununu Top Company since 2022: we're proud to state that our score currently sits at 4,2/5 score with an 85%+ recommendation rate. We value ownership, cooperation, entrepreneurial thinking & and self-reflection in order to communicate effectively as ONE team. ️ Team culture is Key! We have fun at work and beyond: There is always something to celebrate and regular team events. Come as you are - do you prefer T-shirts over a shirt? Great. Your contribution matters: shape our value-driven culture and agile transformation together with your colleagues - we're curious, want to go one step further, build further trust together, and join forces to tackle our challenges as a team.