About the Role
We are seeking a Platform Architect to shape and evolve the architecture and structure of our Procurement platform, a strategic capability supporting direct procurement for goods for resale. This role is critical to our business transformation, translating needs into robust architectural designs and actionable roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Define Platform Architecture Strategy & Roadmap, setting the vision for platform evolution, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architectural principles.
- Design Scalable & Secure Architectures, creating robust designs that balance performance, reliability, cost, and security.
- Select and Govern Technology, evaluating and choosing tools/technologies, establishing standards, and guiding design decisions.
- Ensure Operational Excellence, driving automation, observability, resilience, and performance improvements.
- Maintain & Evolve Architecture Documentation, keeping architectural artifacts up to date.
Requirements
- Expert experience in procurement processes, systems, or SAAS platforms.
- Experience of wholesale, retail, and supply chain technology landscapes.
- Experience with Oracle 12 (forms, SQL & PL/SQL) products software development knowledge and architecture.
- Proven architectural experience in cloud and SAAS environments.
- Strategic & Systems Thinking: Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
- Technical Architecture Expertise: Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and microservices.
- Governance & Standards: Strong grasp of technology governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaboration & Influence: Effective at working across squads, product teams, and enterprise architects.
- Operational Excellence Mindset: Knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices, automation, observability, and monitoring.
- Documentation & Knowledge Management: Disciplined in maintaining architecture artifacts in tools like LeanIX, Confluence, and SharePoint.
- Innovation & Future Readiness: Awareness of emerging technologies and capable of running PoCs.
Skills
- Cloud-native architectures
- APIs
- Integration patterns
- Microservices
- DevOps/SRE practices
- Automation
- Observability
- Monitoring
- LeanIX
- Confluence
- SharePoint
- Emerging technologies (cloud, container orchestration, AI/ML, serverless, edge computing)
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Agile
Experience Level
- Technical Architect Grade 2
Benefits
- Hybrid and agile work
- Work-life balance
- People development programs and trainings
- Support with individual solutions
About the Company
- METRO.digital drives the technology for METRO, a leading international wholesaler specializing in food.
- We work on a wide range of products from e-commerce to checkout and delivery software.
- We build the future of wholesale with passion and ownership.
