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Lead Architect – Engineering Practices, AI Enablement
Location
Germany
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Architect – Engineering Practices, AI Enablement
Contabo
• Your mission is to build pragmatic architecture governance for our products, raise engineering effectiveness across teams, and actively introduce and support modern AI-supported development practices into our software organization. • This role is not about abstract enterprise architecture. It is about creating standards, ways of working and guardrails that teams actually use in day-to-day delivery. • You lead primarily through influence rather than hierarchy: by creating clarity, defining standards, facilitating alignment and enabling teams to succeed. • In this role, you work closely with our COO and act as a key sparring partner for Product and Engineering Leads. • Three major areas will define your impact: Architecture Governance (Product & Software Architecture), Practice Management (Engineering Effectiveness), Security & Compliance by Design. • Design and operate a pragmatic governance model (e.g., Architecture Council, Design/Architecture Reviews, ADR/RFC processes). • Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and guardrails (patterns, integration standards, NFRs). • Establish clear boundaries within which teams can make autonomous decisions (decision rights), while ensuring structured escalation and resolution of cross-cutting topics. • Guide target architectures and modernization paths (legacy/monolith to modular or service-based architectures, strangler pattern, stabilization and decoupling). • Create architectural transparency through clear communication and visualization, enabling Product, Engineering, and Operations to speak the same language (C4 models and ADRs instead of “PowerPoint archaeology”). • Drive engineering effectiveness in practice: improve release discipline, review quality, rollback capability, observability standards, post-mortem quality, and developer experience across teams. • Introduce AI-supported and agentic development capabilities into engineering teams in a pragmatic, secure and measurable way. • Embed security and compliance considerations directly into architecture and delivery standards (e.g., OSS/license hygiene, SBOM approaches, audit requirements in software delivery).
Job Requirements
- Several years of experience (5+ years) in Software or Solution Architecture within complex, distributed systems (experience in cloud, hosting, internet-scale or IoT environments is a plus)
- Proven ability to drive impact without formal authority — leading laterally, moderating trade-offs, preparing decisions, and managing stakeholders effectively
- Experience in establishing and operating architecture governance frameworks (reviews, ADRs, standards, decision processes) — pragmatic and outcome-focused rather than bureaucratic
- Strong communication skills: you can explain architecture in a way that enables teams to implement it and allows Product and Business stakeholders to understand it
- Deep understanding of non-functional requirements (reliability, security, performance, cost) and the ability to operationalize them through standards, reviews, and measurable criteria
- You have already helped development teams adopt modern AI-supported or agentic coding practices in a real delivery environment.
- You have improved how engineering teams work in practice, not only through governance, but through measurable changes in delivery quality, release reliability, testing, observability, and/or developer experience.
- Excellent English skills and professional fluency in German.
Benefits
- Work the way that fits your life – Remote or hybrid with flexible hours for a healthy work-life balance and the same technical equipment at home as in the office
- Experience real freedom – Workation across the EU and in our summer office in Mallorca
- Stay active and healthy – Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilities
- Enjoy exclusive perks – Attractive discounts on many products and services through our corporate benefits program
- Recharge your energy – 30 days of vacation plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
- Give back – An extra day off to get involved in social activities through our Volunteer Day
- Make an impact – Take ownership and bring your ideas to life with real creative freedom
- Keep growing – Individual professional and personal development opportunities in an innovative tech environment
- Feel comfortable where you work – Modern, conveniently located offices across our European locations
- Be part of a diverse team – Work in an international environment shaped by diversity
- Create lasting memories – Company events and team activities you won’t forget
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