As the Chapter lead Solution Architecture, you make architectural decisions across all development teams by being a hands-on contributor and the visionary force behind the technical solution. You value simplicity and challenge technical constraints and procedures across the organization. You are the functional lead of the architecture chapter and guide the team architects with your expertise and practical experience

What you'll do

• You support the team to design and maintain the solution architecture by developing architectural guidelines for Knauf
  
• You collaborate and coordinate with Corporate IT regarding the enterprise architecture and the interaction with transactional enterprise IT systems
• You guide, support, and educate the other solution architects in finding the right solutions for their individual products while maintaining interoperability

Who you are

• You have worked as a solution architect or lead developer on cloud-based software for multiple years
  
• You have deep experience in modern architectural concepts like API structures, authentication, microservices, streaming, and containerization
• You see great potential in DevOps, automated testing, and CI/CD and help teams adopt it
• You have good communication skills, as well as excellent presentation and moderation skills
• You have experience interacting with enterprise architectures and central IT organizations

WE.YOU.TOGETHER.

We all shape our lives in our own way. As an employer, we are an important part that indirectly supports this with a wide range of offers, as well as providing security and reliability for all employees. This includes, among other things:

• Security: Permanent employment contract in a stable, successful family owned business
• Flexibility: 40 working hours per week, 30 days of vacation, special leave for certain occasions, a wide time window for flexible working and weekly home office days
• Fitness and health: Offers of active health promotion, company doctor, occupational health and safety, etc.
• Feel Welcome: Welcome days and individual onboarding, company and team events
• Personal career and career development: Individual support for extra-occupational studies, further education and training courses
• Benefits and vouchers: Employee vouchers and discounts with well-known brands as well as discounted employee purchasing
• Relocation Support: Support in the event of a change of location
• Inspiring work environment: Our brand new office offers you an environment that fosters creativity and productivity. We love coming together as a team here!

If you are looking for a variety of challenging tasks with global reach and family atmosphere, then you are most welcome at Knauf Digital!

Knauf as an employer

Knauf is an international market leader in the building materials' industry. About 41,500 employees at over 300 locations worldwide generate a turnover of over 15.4 billion euros. The foundation of our success as a family business are our corporate values of humanity, partnership, commitment, and entrepreneurial spirit. As a subsidiary, Knauf Digital GmbH has the mandate to drive commercial excellence through digitalization for all companies of the Knauf Group globally. Our mission is to rethink what it means to provide value to our customers and thereby drive growth for our businesses around the world.

The Knauf Group is a proud equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working environment and therefore base all our employment selection decisions, within all aspects of our business, on experience, skill, and integrity. We strongly encourage applicants from all walks of life to apply for our positions, irrespective of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, origin, religion, etc.