Your responsibilities will include:

• You take full architectural ownership of large-scale integration projects, designing resilient, high-volume data exchange ecosystems
• You act as a strategic advisor to our clients' IT leadership, guiding them through complex decisions regarding API strategies and system decoupling
• You define and enforce integration best practices and standards, ensuring consistency and quality across multiple projects
• You serve as the ultimate escalation point for the most critical and complex technical challenges, solving problems others cannot
• You lead and mentor a team of integration consultants, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous innovation
• You collaborate directly with our R&D department to shape the future of our core integration framework based on real-world enterprise needs
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Your skills and interests:

• You have an extensive track record in software architecture and system integration, ideally within the financial or automotive sector
• You possess mastery of integration patterns (e.g., SOA, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture) and technologies (Java, REST, SOAP, Kafka, Camel)
• You are driven by the challenge of orchestrating complex IT landscapes and have a vision for how modern systems should communicate
• You have proven experience in technical leadership, enjoying the role of a mentor and knowledge multiplier
• You communicate with authority and clarity, capable of convincing C-level stakeholders of your technical vision
• You are fluent in German and English and thrive in a role where you can set the direction rather than just following the path
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