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# Director Technology & IT Operations

- **Company:** A11
- **Location:** Düsseldorf, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Design of User Interfaces, Information Technology Operations, Software Engineering, Web Platforms, Data Analytics
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=51bdbdb01391a207

## About the Role

* 5+ years of leadership experience in technology / IT organizations of comparable scope, ideally across multiple domains
 * A genuine software-development background - enough technical depth to earn the trust of a strong engineering team
 * Proven experience building and operating scalable digital platforms, cloud and IT operations
 * Comfortable navigating a larger group or corporate environment: stakeholder management, cross-functional alignment
 * A leadership style built on vision, clarity, ownership and developing people
 * Fluent German and English required
 * A plus, not a must: hands-on experience with IoT, telematics or connectivity platforms

Location: Regular on-site presence (at least 40% of your time) at the company's Austrian HQ is required, flexibly bundled (e.g. alternating weeks).

## Description

* Own the tech strategy: technology, architecture, platform and operations, translating the product roadmap into a scalable technical one
 * Lead the organization: grow a ~20-person team spanning software development, architecture, QA, UI/UX, IoT, platform and IT operations, across on-site and remote
 * Build the leadership layer: develop your team leads into a strong, autonomous next level and shape a modern, empowerment-driven engineering culture
 * Scale the platform: support roughly 10x growth in connected assets while keeping platform and operating costs growing slower than the fleet
 * Build and modernise: drive the shift from legacy toward new, differentiating capabilities - including AI-enabled software delivery and AI-/data-driven services on top of the platform's vehicle data - while bringing structure to a grown platform, its data governance and the last of its legacy landscape
 * Bridge to the group: act as the technology interface to the wider mobility group, aligning closely with product, group tech and commercial stakeholders
 * Own the numbers: budget, external partners and KPI reporting for your area


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