🚀 System Architect (m/f/d) Global Data Platform

🚀 System Architect (m/f/d) Global Data Platform Cloud-Native | AWS | System Architecture | Data-Driven Systems We are TecAlliance — founded by more than 30 automotive aftermarket companies as a neutral Data‑as‑a‑Service market connector, serving as the neutral data terrain that interconnects them. With over 1,000 employees worldwide and customers in 140 countries, we enable the market — we never compete with it. You will be the architecture expert in the Information Management business unit - a team of specialist who design, develop, and operate the applications and tools powering TecAlliance’s data backbone - The Global Data Platform . This is a modern, cloud-native ecosystem built to process and govern hundreds of critical data flows across domains and markets. It sits at the very heart of our organisation - and we’re looking for a System Architect to shape its future. As part of the central System Architecture team within Business IT, you also work closely with peer architects, engaging in regular exchange to ensure a consistent, high-quality enterprise-wide architecture and jointly report to the Lead System & Enterprise Architecture, Markus . 🔎 Your Mission As a System Architect , you will: Join a strategically critical transformation as we renew our core systems and expand our Global Data Platform — shaping the technological backbone of our future business. Take architectural ownership for the Information Management business unit You won’t just design systems — you will influence strategy, enable teams, and shape the long-term technical direction of a business-critical data platform. 🚧 What You’ll Do Own the architecture: Shape the architectural direction of the Information Management domain, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure and future-proof solutions. Design modern, cloud-native systems: Architect data-driven platforms with a strong focus on AWS, serverless patterns, modularity, and maintainability. Align business and technology: Translate strategic objectives into actionable solution designs and architectural blueprints that engineering teams can execute with confidence. Drive architectural consistency: Work closely with fellow System Architects to maintain coherence across business units and contribute to enterprise-wide standards. Enable and mentor: Act as a trusted advisor and sparring partner to engineers, product stakeholders and leadership. Coach teams on best practices, architectural patterns and technical decision-making. Balance impact and pragmatism: Make thoughtful trade-offs between scalability, performance, security, cost and delivery timelines. Your Profile Proven knowledge with AWS, including designing of serverless systems. Solid experience in a System Architect or Solution Architect role. Strong consulting skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders and development teams effectively. Hands-on experience with data-driven architectures such as data mesh, lakehouse architectures, and metadata management. Openness for applying AI tooling to architecting, coding, and documenting Solid understanding of data quality, data catalog, data observability, and data lineage principles English communication skills (spoken and written). If you feel you can fulfil the demands of this role but do not meet all of the criteria above, we still encourage you to apply. Applications will be reviewed on their merit, please elaborate on why you feel you would be a good candidate for this position in your application. We kindly ask you to send in an English CV only. Thank you. Get insides That's what your system architect colleague Mike says "The different business units have different needs and differences in their technology stacks, so that gives us different perspectives and room for interesting discussions. We share what works well, but you won't be doing cookie-cutter work. You’ll work in an environment where proven systems meet modern cloud technologies - valuing both solid engineering experience and a forward-looking, state-of-the-art mindset. It's great to be part of a global company and work with people around the world on a daily basis." Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits. As our positions are advertised in various locations the benefits may vary. Therefore, below you will only find those that apply to all locations—for details, please speak to the recruiter, who will be happy to answer your questions. Contracts, Salary, and non-monetary benefits 💯 Remote work: we work 80-100% remotely; however, we have regular on-site team events. 🚀 Structured Onboarding: you receive an individual onboarding plan, have multiple onboarding days in the beginning, and a wealth of e-learning, training, and documentation besides your team at your disposal. 👩‍💻 Set-up: for this we will provide you with a tailored tech set-up (Dell devices, the standard remote package includes a notebook, 2monitors, headset, mobile phone, mouse + keyboard, docking station). ⚖️ Balance job & life: Flexible working hours: you decide where and when you work. Culture ❤️‍🔥 Kununu Top Company since 2022: we're proud to state that our score currently sits at 4,2/5 score with an 85%+ recommendation rate. 🧬 We value ownership, cooperation, entrepreneurial thinking & and self-reflection in order to communicate effectively as ONE team. 🎟️ Team culture is Key! We have fun at work and beyond: There is always something to celebrate and regular team events. 🦄 Come as you are - do you prefer T-shirts over a shirt? Great. ✨ Your contribution matters: shape our value-driven culture and agile transformation together with your colleagues – we're curious, want to go one step further, build further trust together, and join forces to tackle our challenges as a team. * Please note - that TecAlliance can only consider candidates for employment who are legally authorized to work in a country listed in the job posting, where we have an established legal entity and payroll system. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to hire candidates who require relocation, visa support, or are located outside of that country. Of course you can apply, if you hold a work permit and are willing to / or already moved to the country. Thank you for your understanding. - that it is not possible to work outside of the country you are applying for. Meaning that, if you apply e.g. for Spain, you must work from within Spain. It is not possible to work from abroad. You can work at any location within the borders of the listed country, unless the job posting specifies a certain City. Department Business IT Role System Architect Locations Multiple locations Remote status Fully Remote Employment type Full-time Tenerife Barcelona Netherlands remote Heerlen France Remote England Remote Barcelona Autotecnic About TecAlliance Helping our customers to sell more parts & make things easier with our data and solutions based on our globally leading data standards Co-workers 1000+