Integration Architect

What makes us special

• An environment that cares about your well-being: flexible working hours, hybrid work model 70/30 and additional 2 days off per year for every employee
• A package of additional benefits: private medical care, multi-sport card
• Our employees can work from selected European Union countries for up to 30 calendar days a year
• Onboarding: Our clearly structured onboarding process, including an Onboarding App, enables us to integrate new employees into Vaillant Group quickly and in a targeted manner
• Constant learning opportunities for both technical and personal growth through a range of workshops, seminars, events, and e-learnings

What we achieve together

Our mission is to support the Vaillant business to provide a seamless digital journey for our customers and partners during the purchase, installation and service of our heating products. To make this possible, our aim is to establish reliable, re-usable and secure integration between multiple backends and across various frontend applications, in a domain driven approach. 

Join us with your expertise to make it happen ! 

• You establish the API Governance and API Management for internal and external APIs at Vaillant Group
• Together with digital solution development teams, you analyze and (re)design existing and new APIs to shape Vaillant's digital platform integration layer.
• Embedded in a strong community of architects, you participate in the design of our digital solution platform and establish a stable, reliable and re-usable API layer on top of the core business functionalities.
• You support development teams in finding the best architectural approach for new digital solutions, based on the principles and guidelines you establish.
• With your experience, you help to monitor, test and improve APIs to ensure stability, reliability, performance and security.
• Based on requirements, you evaluate and establish adequate tools to manage the API landscape and to run the API Governance processes

What makes us successful together

• Proven experience in the design of complex solutions with synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns in heterogeneous and distributed system environments
• A clear understanding of the implications of security, scalability, reliability and sustainability on the API design
• Wide knowledge of communication protocols, integration patterns and payload encodings. You know how to formulate best practices into clear guidelines.
• You are familiar with modern software development methods and tools and with infrastructure as code. You have a deep understanding of Java or another JVM language.
• Knowlege of API management tools, Kafka or JMS brokers is a plus
• You have very good analytical and communication skills and a structured way of working, combined with a high degree of initiative and motivation 
• Fluent business English