System Architect (Valencia, V, ES, 46002)

Volkswagen Group Services is excited to present a fantastic opportunity to join our Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain. 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. We value respect, teamwork, and the common purpose that binds us as a group. 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.

About the Team and the Hub

• Our culture is centered around fostering individual growth and team empowerment within a flexible and supportive environment.
• We prioritize respect, teamwork, and inclusivity, recognizing and valuing the unique contributions of each member.
• We embrace a work-life balance philosophy and encourage continuous personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

Defining and Communicating Architecture Vision

• Own and develop an architectural vision at the ART level and for cross-sectional topics, coordinating with Business Owners and across brands.
• Manage architecture work at team level (software architects / tech leads), analyzing stakeholder requirements and creating technical concepts.
• Maintain continuous exchange with individual tech leads from the Scrum teams, approving solutions and addressing ART-wide technical challenges.
• Ownership of the system's cloud-based infrastructure 

Aligning Architecture with Business Priorities

• Contribute to cost-benefit assessments of alternative solutions, including monetary evaluation and risk analysis from a technical point of view.
• Validate architectural decisions through POCs, determining costs and verification strategies.
• Ensure alignment with other technical platforms used within the Group, coordinating changes to networking platforms and platform requirements.

Evolving System Design with Teams (SAFe / PI Planning)

• Divide technical requirements into manageable units and lead technical reviews during major changes or significant architecture extensions.
• Work with product management to determine capacity allocation for enablement work, participating in PI Planning as part of the PM / SA / RTE triad and define priorities.
• Collaborate Collaborate with the Agile teams in the ART structure to ensure best software development practices are applied
• Mentor Team Leads in technical and Fostering Built-in Quality and NFRs
• Actively describe and manage critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) in terms of technical quality, participating in their definition in coordination with business requirements and releases.
• Provide an overview of NFRs and their impact on the architecture, including references to security requirements and technical quality, offering alternative solutions where needed.
• Design and build reliable monitoring and alerting systems to create enable proactive mitigation.
• In the context of a Solution Train, collaborate with the Solution Architect to manage releases and align technology approaches across ARTs.

Supporting DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

•  Enable the Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) through appropriate architecture guidelines, defining these guidelines and describing the limitations of the solution.
• Pipeline maintenance, creation, and deployment configuration maintenance and creation.
• Anticipate, identify, and eliminate blockers in Agile team; act as a Delivery Advocate and Enabler, sharing knowledge and team agreements.

Requirements

• BA Degree in Computer Sciences (or FP) and/or 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.
• Good management skills, team spirit, and ability to communicate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 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, as are other languages.
• Experience with cloud service providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• SAFe certification.
• Jira and Confluence.
• Strong German speaker.
• Fluent English and/or Spanish speaker.

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.

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