Principal Enterprise Architect (Germany), German speaking

Role overview Shape technical solutions for large enterprise prospects and customers, translating business priorities into architecture, data, and cloud strategies. You will support new sales and customer expansion, work with senior executives and technical teams, and help resolve technical barriers in partnership with sales, product, engineering, data, and security colleagues. The role combines strategic design, customer engagement, and guidance for delivery teams.

Responsibilities - Lead architecture, data, and cloud strategy for major customer accounts, including enterprise modernization and capability mapping. - Present technical plans to executive stakeholders and connect them to customer goals. - Assess customer technology environments and design solutions that may incorporate agentic AI. - Partner with customer architecture and security teams through pre-sales and post-sales work. - Advise consulting teams and partners on implementation architecture, integration, performance, and scalability. - Create reusable technical assets, designs, position papers, and presentations for customer and internal use.

Requirements - 10–15 years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, software vendor architecture, or senior consulting technology roles. - Ability to connect technical choices to business priorities and customer value. - Strong written and verbal communication, including presenting complex ideas to C-level executives. - Experience with capability mapping and enterprise modernization, plus a solid understanding of agentic AI. - Knowledge of cloud-native and SaaS architectures, ERP and CRM platforms, service management systems, cybersecurity fundamentals, APIs, and legacy on-premises environments. - Background in data architecture and integration patterns, with development experience in data-related languages.

Benefits and work setup Based in Germany, with Munich, Berlin, or Frankfurt listed as location options; German-speaking applicants open to relocating are welcome. The role includes collaboration across regional customer accounts and partner teams.