Principal Enterprise Architecture Senior Consultant

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Principal Enterprise Architecture Senior Consultant

As a Principal Enterprise Architecture Senior Consultant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that implemented solutions align perfectly with defined architecture guidelines, business requirements, and the overarching product roadmap. This position offers a unique chance to provide technical leadership within Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and guide implementation teams through complex technical challenges.

Tasks

• Ensure implemented solutions align with defined architecture guidelines, business requirements, and the product roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership within the Agile Release Train (ART), supporting implementation teams with design guidance and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Contribute to architectural decision-making by evaluating trade-offs, documenting technical decisions, and ensuring adherence to agreed standards.
• Evaluate and prototype technologies to support solution design improvements, providing hands-on input into technical evolution.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders (Product Owners, QA, DevOps, System Architects) to ensure technical transparency, feasibility, and smooth delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns, with the ability to translate high-level architectural concepts into robust, maintainable implementations.
• Experience working within established architectural frameworks (e.g., SAFe) and contributing to solution architecture discussions while ensuring alignment with enterprise guidelines.
• Ability to design, document, and communicate solution-level architectures and technical designs, producing clear technical documentation (design specifications, ADRs, interface definitions) using structured approaches such as arc42.
• Solid understanding of ASPICE standards and the V-Cycle development process, ensuring compliance within software development activities.
• Hands-on experience with system engineering concepts, modeling techniques (e.g., UML, C4 model), and architecture decision practices.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (architecture, QA, DevOps, product management) to ensure technical alignment and delivery excellence.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience identifying technical risks and proposing mitigation strategies at solution level.
• Broad technical expertise across application development, data handling, system integration, and cloud-native technologies, including practical experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience working in Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and contributing to continuous delivery in a SAFe environment.
• Strong programming skills with extensive experience in object-oriented design and development, including clean code principles, refactoring, and test-driven development.
• Ability to mentor junior developers, perform code reviews, and promote engineering best practices within the team.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Things to know before departure:

• Start: by arrangement - always on the 1st and 15th of the month
• Working hours: full-time (40h); 27 vacation days
• Employment contract: Unlimited
• Line of work: Consulting
• Language skills: Fluency in written and spoken English, and German nice to have
• Flexibility & willingness to travel
• Other: a valid work permit

Key skills/competency

• Software Architecture
• Design Patterns
• SAFe Framework
• Solution Architecture
• AWS/Azure Cloud
• ASPICE Standards
• System Integration
• Object-Oriented Design
• Technical Leadership
• Agile Methodologies