Solution/Application Architect (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Stuttgart, GER

Purchasing 4.0: Fully Digitized & Networked?

At Onventis we assign teams to work with the customer needs, we don't give them specific solutions to implement. We strive to understand the problem first and deliver the products that make a difference for our end users. Being part of the journey to create the products that customers love and work with daily, is a great joy and experience.

You as a Solution/Application Architect are the advocate for cloud adoption. Your solutions are resilient, cost-effective, scalable, and fault-tolerant and give your stakeholders not only what they want, but the stability and security they need.

The goal for the position is to define the best architectures and patterns for our cloud applications and align our autonomous teams to them.

We are searching for a champion in technical excellence in our headquarters in Stuttgart who will support the team in implementing smart solutions.

Your job
What you will create:
  • Cloud-native application architectures of enterprise level
  • Applications, which stand alone for their value and quality in the procurement market (Sourcing, Spend Management, Procurement, Supplier management)

What you will practice:
  • building cloud-native micro-services architecture
  • Support the teams in slicing the monolith part into microservices/microsites
  • design first then implement approach
  • prototyping/spikes validation
  • building for Azure

What approaches and technologies you will face: 
  • Azure Cloud
  • .Net C#; Entity Framework
  • SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search, SOLR
  • RabbitMQ, MassTransit
  • DDD, Clean code
  • CQRS/CQS; Event Sourcing
  • Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy
  • Docker, Helm, Kubernetes
  • REST APIs, OpenAPI specification

How you will work:
  • Define the technology stack and the way to reach the goal architecture
  • Discuss architectural challenges and ways to solve them with the architecture board and teams
  • Make architectural decisions work by converting them into specific steps and implementations
  • Actively participate in development and cross-team sync-up meetings to learn new, understand company horizons and goals
  • Communicate technical decisions to the team and timely address changes
  • Lead architectural planning meetings by discussing Epics with the team and decomposing them, beginning with the end result in mind
  • Ensure high quality of the delivered products (documentation, concept reviews, monitoring, tracing and alerting, auto-renewal, idempotency)
  • Collaborate daily with the technical architects to ensure the teams understand the overall architecture and its purpose clearly
  • Escalate when help is needed to Enterprise Architect and CPO
  • Speak out for improvement suggestions during retrospective meetings which work
We offer you
  • Time to "think" and create spikes, evaluate technologies for our use cases, and work with the teams to implement the best ideas in features
  • Concentrate on essence of your job
  • Enjoy a high-class DELL mobile workstation with 2 monitors and licensed software
  • see CORE culture (customer-oriented; open-minded; responsible; excellent) in action
  • Work in a hybrid work schedule (home office/work from office)
  • Discuss feedback on your expectations and performance twice a year with your direct lead
  • Regular informal 1-1 meetings with your direct lead
  • Grow professionally, working closely with C-Level, architects, and other senior colleagues
  • Attend workshops and conferences
  • Access to e-learning platforms
  • 24/7 access to loft-style modern office
  • Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket
  • Bike leasing option with subsidy 
  • Discounted Urban Sports Club membership 


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Apply online or send your application with your salary expectations and the earliest possible starting date to the following e-mail address: recruiting@onventis.de
About us
"We work every day to make global procurement simple, secure and connected with cloud services". At Onventis, we are driven by a common goal: to provide the best digital network for buyers and suppliers. We are a software pioneer that makes online procurement possible for companies. In addition to digital technology, this requires great ideas for the procurement management of tomorrow. Who makes them a reality? The Onventis team from Research & Development, IT, Product Management, Consulting & Services, Support, Sales, Marketing and Finance & Administration makes purchasing fit for the future for our internationally active customers, such as Conrad, Federal Mogule, Kühne & Nagel, Schott and Steigenberger - every day. Expressed in figures: From 6 locations - Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, The Hague, Stockholm, Paris and Vienna - around 160 colleagues ensure every day that around 450,000 users process an annual business volume of 10 billion euros and more via the Onventis platform. The flat hierarchies, the broad scope for creativity and our interlinked teams create the space for innovation and personal development. Show us that you are a digital talent and make the Onventis success story yours. 
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