Solutions Architect – Digital Sovereignty

Role overview Lead technical design and customer adoption of data and AI systems that meet digital sovereignty needs in Germany. You will advise regulated and strategic organizations, validate architectures through hands-on pilots, and help cloud partners and account teams move successful solutions into production.

Responsibilities - Advise customers from early executive discussions through implementation, addressing data residency, jurisdiction, access control, and provider portability. - Design and validate sovereign data and AI architectures, then lead proofs of concept that test performance, scale, security, and network connectivity. - Turn pilot results into clear recommendations and help establish production workloads with partner and customer teams. - Work with cloud and storage partners on solution design, technical enablement, joint workshops, and customer engagements. - Explain relevant European and German sovereignty requirements and options, including GDPR, NIS2, DORA, BSI C5, and exit strategies. - Create reusable architectures, demonstrations, automation templates, and playbooks; share field needs with product, engineering, legal, security, and compliance teams.

Requirements - Fluent German and business-level English for regular work with customers, partners, and internal teams. - Significant experience in solution architecture, technical pre-sales, or consulting with enterprise customers across the sales lifecycle. - Practical experience with data platforms on at least one major public cloud; familiarity with Spark or similar distributed data technologies is relevant. - Strong understanding of cloud networking, private connectivity, identity and access management, encryption, and key management. - Experience with object storage, open table formats, and secure data-sharing approaches. - Working knowledge of German and EU regulation and sovereignty concerns, with the ability to discuss them with technical leaders and executives. - Ability to code in Python and SQL, coordinate cross-functional teams, and use AI coding tools to build and assess customer-specific prototypes. - Willingness to travel within Germany for customer and partner meetings.

Nice to have - Experience with European or sovereign cloud providers, public sector organizations, or regulated industries. - Infrastructure-as-code experience, such as Terraform.

Benefits and work setup - Remote work or office-based work anywhere in Germany. - Opportunity to shape a growing sovereignty-focused technical practice and collaborate across field engineering, product, and partner teams.