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. 

Collaborating on products that customers love and depend on daily is an incredibly rewarding experience - and you can be a part of it!

You as a Cloud Solution 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.

Your Mission

• 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.

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.

Your Profile

Must-haves

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Excellent communication skills (English).
• Expertise in designing and building distributed systems.
• Experience in decomposing monolithic applications into microservices.
• Practical knowledge in designing and implementing DDD, CQRS/CQS, and Event Sourcing.
• Extensive experience with REST/HTTP and AMQP (RabbitMQ/Service Bus).
• In-depth knowledge of Well-Architected Frameworks.
• Background as a .NET/C# developer.

Nice-to-haves

• Good knowledge of MS SQL and MongoDB.
• Experience with non-relational databases and search engines, such as SOLR, Redis, GraphDBs, and Elastic Search.
• Monitoring and logging solutions (ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• Experience with Azure Cloud.

We offer you

Become part of the Onventis cloud platform for buyers and suppliers. Our solutions are used by 1,2 million registered users in 21 languages worldwide. A dynamic environment with flat hierarchies, fast decision-making processes and innovative development projects with creative freedom are included!


In addition, we offer you:

• Time to think and collaborate with your team to create the best features.
• Work alongside platform teams who care and drive success.
• Focus on your job with a high-class workstation, dual monitors, and licensed software.
• Experience our CORE culture in action: Customer-oriented, Open-minded, Responsible, Excellent.
• Biannual feedback sessions on your expectations and performance.
• Annual salary reviews to ensure your growth is rewarded.
• Regular informal 1-1 meetings with your manager to stay connected.
• Professional growth through collaboration with technical architects and senior colleagues.
• Access to workshops, conferences, and an e-learning platform for continuous learning.

Join Us!

It’s time to meet you!

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 190 colleagues ensure every day that around 1,2 million users process an annual business volume of 20 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.