Senior System Architect - Remote Opportunity at Volkswagen Group

About the Role

Volkswagen Group Services is excited to present a fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Senior System Architect - Remote. As part of the global Software Development Centre network in the Volkswagen Group, we constantly seek talented individuals ready to bring their unique skills to our projects. Our start-up environment is collaborative, innovative, and open to new ideas. We strive to cultivate a work culture that encourages individual growth, team empowerment, and project excellence. If you're ready to thrive in a dynamic start-up environment and be part of our family, supported by one of the largest companies in the world, we invite you to read further.

What You'll Do

• Define and communicate architecture vision at the ART level, coordinating with Business Owners and across brands.
• Manage architecture work at the team level, analyzing stakeholder requirements and creating technical concepts.
• Maintain continuous exchange with individual tech leads from Scrum teams, approving solutions and addressing ART-wide technical challenges.
• Contribute to cost-benefit assessments of alternative solutions, including monetary evaluation and risk analysis from a technical point of view.
• Collaborate with Agile teams in the ART structure to ensure best software development practices are applied.
• Mentor team leads in technical aspects and foster built-in quality and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Design and build reliable monitoring and alerting systems to create proactive mitigation strategies.
• Support the Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) through appropriate architecture guidelines.

Requirements

• BA Degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent professional experience in Software Engineering.
• At least 7 years of experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a System/Platform Architect role.
• Proven experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environments, ideally as System Architect within an ART.
• Strong understanding of PI Planning, ART ceremonies, and cross-team architecture coordination.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining architecture documentation using industry-standard frameworks like arc42 or TOGAF.
• Experience with Java and Spring ecosystem, Spring Boot; Kotlin is a plus.
• Experience with cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Fluent in German and English or Spanish.

Nice to Have

• SAFe certification.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.

What We Offer

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed.
• Access to professional development tools and free language courses.
• Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs.
• A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts.

Join us at Volkswagen Digital:Hub to advance your career in a role where your administrative skills will directly contribute to the success and smooth operation of our innovative projects.