Digital Solution Platform Architect (m/f/d)

What we achieve together

At Digital Platforms & Solutions, we drive the Vaillant Group’s digital transformation by creating smart, secure and user centric services that enhance comfort, efficiency and sustainability. By developing our digital solution platform, we build the foundation for powerful digital solutions for customers, installers and partners and help shape the future of heating and deliver meaningful value across the entire lifecycle of our products.

• You develop scalable and maintainable frontend and middleware architectures that fulfil our business needs while ensuring high performance, security, and scalability

• You collaborate closely with product owners, UX designers and full stack engineers to create seamless digital solutions that elevate the user experience

• Your responsibilities include providing technical guidance and mentoring full stack development teams, fostering a culture of high standards, ownership, and continuous learning

• Together with your Architect colleagues, you establish and continuously improve overarching standards striving towards our multilayer domain driven target architecture

• By staying up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends, you recommend new tools and practices that strengthen innovation and future readiness

• You create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, design patterns, and implementation guidelines, supporting knowledge sharing across teams

What makes us successful together

• Qualification: You have a degree in Computer Science or a comparable field

• Experience: You bring proven experience as a Senior Developer or Solution Architect with a solid understanding of software architecture principles.

• Know-how: Your expertise covers cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, along with DevOps practices and event driven architectures that enable robust and scalable digital solutions. You work with modern frontend technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js, combined with backend expertise in Java or comparable languages

• Personality: You are a communicative and collaborative team player who values mentorship, approaches challenges with enthusiasm, and adapts easily within diverse, interdisciplinary teams

• Nice to have: Experience with Design Thinking or Agile methodologies, and a strong understanding of security best practices

• Language skills: To be successful in this role, you will need excellent communication and presentation skills on all business levels - you speak fluently English and German in your daily business

What you can count on

• Hybrid Work: We offer our employees the opportunity to work on a hybrid basis. There is also the option to temporarily work from a country within the European Union

• Salary: We offer an attractive remuneration package in accordance with the NRW IG Metall collective wage agreement, including vacation pay and Christmas bonus.

• Onboarding: Our clearly structured onboarding process, including an Onboarding App, enables us to integrate new employees into Vaillant Group quickly and in a targeted manner

• Health management: We offer comprehensive preventive health counseling & measures