Solution Architect (Part-time/Teilzeit, Germany)

3+ years of proven experience as a Cloud Architect or Solution Architect

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services (AKS, ACR, VNETs, Storage, Monitoring, Entra ID) and building microservices architectures with containerized workloads

8+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with any backend technology

Proven expertise in designing cloud-native systems with explicit ownership of capacity planning, cost forecasting, and TCO modeling across production workloads

Practical experience building IoT solutions, including telemetry, connectivity and reliability constraints, firmware lifecycle management, OTA updates, and device fleet management

Experience to assess, compare, and recommend software architectures, technologies, and approaches for projects; clearly present pros/cons, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation implications to stakeholders

Experience of architecture design based on ready-made components as an alternative proposal for a customer

In-depth understanding of security-by-* principles, including encryption, zero-trust networking, and secure service-to-service communication

Proven ability to lead architecture vision and technical discussions with customers and internal teams

Strong communication and presentation skills

Ability to balance business requirements, compliance, and technical feasibility

Upper-Intermediate level of German proficiency

Upper-Intermediate level of English proficiency