Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Beckum, NRW, Germany
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
As a Senior Platform Architect, you play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our software platforms and solutions. You are responsible for defining scalable, maintainable, and secure platform architectures that align with both customer requirements and business objectives. Working closely with customers, architects, engineers, and product teams, you ensure that technical solutions deliver sustainable value while balancing quality, feasibility, and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the architecture, design, and technical direction of complex software platforms throughout the entire development lifecycle, from analysis to release
- Translate customer and business requirements into scalable, secure, and reusable platform solutions while actively challenging assumptions and identifying the best approach
- Develop high-level platform specifications with a strong focus on system integration, performance, quality, maintainability, cyber security, resilience, and scalability
- Lead architectural discussions, guide technical decision-making, and provide coaching to architects, software engineers, and platform engineers
- Ensure platform solutions avoid unnecessary complexity and are fit for purpose, balancing business value and technical excellence
- Plan, review, and supervise architecture quality, implementation quality, testing activities, and technical governance processes
- Promote reuse by defining modular architectures, reusable components, and platform capabilities that can support future products and projects
Leverage AI tools and technologies to improve development efficiency, software quality, architectural decision-making, and engineering productivity while actively supporting AI adoption across teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Several years of experience in software development, software architecture, and platform engineering, including technologies such as C, C#, Java, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments
- Expert knowledge of software architecture principles, application design, system modeling methods, and software quality assurance
- Strong understanding of system integration, cyber security, test management, and modern software development practices
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, guide cross-functional teams, and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
- Experience working with multiple products or platforms and designing reusable, product-oriented architectures
Good understanding of how Artificial Intelligence can be applied effectively in software development, architecture design, automation, code quality, testing, and engineering workflows
- Relevant certifications such as Certified Software Architect or comparable qualifications are considered an advantage
- What Makes This Role Special
- Work on highly complex and strategically significant platform solutions with global impact
- Drive the intersection of architecture leadership, customer engagement, and technical innovation
- Shape platform strategy while continuously enhancing software engineering processes and standards
- Empower colleagues as a mentor, trainer, and trusted advisor, fostering growth across the organization
- Champion AI adoption within engineering teams and promote the effective and responsible use of AI technologies
- Partner with customers, requirements engineers, software teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and sustainable solutions
- Influence future product generations through reusable architectures and a long-term platform vision
- About BEUMER Group
Conveying, loading, palletizing, packing, sorting and distributing - BEUMER Group develops and produces technically leading intralogistics systems for the global market. Our employees are characterized by excellent know-how and a strong will to consistently develop themselves further. We do our utmost to promote this claim: within the framework of a family-like cooperation characterized by high mutual esteem and a culture of trust that creates stability and security. Our common goal: to implement outstanding and innovative projects worldwide.
Benefits
We look forward to receiving your application! Please include your salary expectations (gross annual salary) and your notice period or earliest possible starting date.
About the Company
FAM Member of BEUMER Group is a global company that performs engineering, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, reconstruction and equipment supply services for mining plants and any industry that requires bulk materials handling systems, in addition to being a provider of processing services. In turn, at FAM various designs are developed for systems, plants and handling equipment; designs that have proven to be efficient, with high standards of quality, safety and reliability. We have references in more than 80 countries, we combine technical skills, engineering and project management at the highest level, for more than 100 years. We are governed by Law No. 21,015, which encourages the inclusion of people with disabilities in the world of work.
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- Role:
- Senior Platform Architect (m/f/d)
- Industry Type:
- Industrial Automation
- Job Type:
- Full-Time
Company profile
BEUMER Group
beumergroup.comBEUMER Group is an independent, family-owned company that designs and manufactures intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sortation and distribution, including baggage handling systems for airports. Founded in 1935 and now owned in the third generation, it serves industries such as courier, express and parcel and supports customers through a worldwide network of regional service centers. BEUMER Group has more than 6,000 employees in more than 70 countries and an annual order intake of around 1.83 billion euros.
- Headquarters
- Beckum, Germany
- Founded
- 1935
- Founders
- Bernhard Beumer