Platform Architect- Procurement (m/f/d)

Your Responsibilities:  

• Define Platform Architecture Strategy & Roadmap - Set the vision for how the platform evolves, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architectural principles. Define the target solution landscape, manage cross-platform dependencies, and drive roadmap execution;

• Design Scalable & Secure Architectures - Create robust designs that balance performance, reliability, cost, and security, while meeting business and compliance requirements;

• Select and Govern Technology - Evaluate and choose tools/technologies, establish standards and guardrails, and guide design decisions across squads in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and the Design Council;

• Ensure Operational Excellence - Drive automation, observability, resilience, and performance improvements. Monitor platform KPIs and recommend architecture changes to continuously improve reliability and efficiency;

• Maintain & Evolve Architecture Documentation - Keep architectural artifacts up to date as a single source of truth for stakeholders.

Required key competencies and qualifications: 

• Strategic & Systems Thinking - Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Skilled at balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability;

• Technical Architecture Expertise - Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and microservices. Proficiency in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and security;

• Governance & Standards - Strong grasp of technology governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Ability to define and enforce architectural guardrails without stifling innovation;

• Collaboration & Influence - Effective at working across squads, product teams, and enterprise architects. Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and business leaders;

• Operational Excellence Mindset - Knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices, automation, observability, and monitoring. Ability to interpret platform KPIs and drive continuous improvements;

• Documentation & Knowledge Management - Disciplined in maintaining architecture artifacts in tools like LeanIX, Confluence, and SharePoint;

• Innovation & Future Readiness - Awareness of emerging technologies (cloud, container orchestration, AI/ML, serverless, edge computing). Capable of running PoCs and evaluating new trends for platform adoption.

What we offer at METRO.digital?    

• Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment.

At METRO.digital, we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of self-organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup.

• People development: when you grow so do we!

We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career.

• Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring!

We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.

Want to know more about all our benefits? Discover more here. 

Let´s connect soon. Apply for the role now!    

Position grade within our career framework: Technical Architect Grade 2 (Md9).