Job description
Company Description
We are the KOSTAL Group, a global, independent family-owned company based in Germany. We develop and manufacture technologically complex electronic and mechatronic products. We employ more than 20.000 people at 53 locations in 21 countries, offering flexible, knowledgeable and customer-focused service.
In Hungary, KOSTAL is building a flagship global business service center to deliver exceptional support across key functions such as IT, finance, controlling, master data, purchasing, sales, sustainability, R&D and HR. This center is focusing on high-value, complex processes and your individual expertise can make a significant impact in shaping KOSTAL’s future and driving global excellence.
The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary. In case of some company events, office attendance is expected from the colleagues. Technical conditions for working from home are fully in place.
Job Description
Main roles and responsibilities:
- Design a scalable, robust and secure system architecture for vaylens’ cloud-based EV charging application landscape (a charge point management system with microservice architecture based on Java/Spring Boot with Angular frontends).
- Drive the technical vision of our software landscape ensuring that it is adaptable to future business growth, market trends, and emerging technologies.
- Analyse business requirements, specify them in the form of use cases (inc. description of necessary system interfaces as a sequence diagram) and define associated overarching data models.
- Develop sustainable software concepts that balance performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability in the role of a solution architect.
- Define cloud infrastructure requirements in collaboration with DevOps and ensure alignment with modern cloud-native best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, project managers, developers, and DevOps engineers, in a scaled agile environment ensuring the long-term architecture runway.
- Act as a technical mentor, guiding development teams, reviewing designs, using architectural best practices, and identifying potential risks early.
- Pitch and coordinate strategic architecture projects within our system landscape.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications
Experiences and requirements:
- University degree in Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Business Informatics or similar education
- 3+ years of professional experience as (Solution/Enterprise/Integration/Software) Architect in distributed systems and cloud-native microservice landscapes
- 5+ years of professional experience in the area of software development in the Java Enterprise/Spring environment
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing distributed systems in cloud-native environments as well as proficiency Kubernetes
- Experience with software quality assurance, including load and performance testing
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies and experience in scaled agile environments (ideally organized with SAFe)
- Relevant certifications in the field of architecture
- Analytical mindset with excellent understanding of complex technical relationships and hardware-software communication
- Ability to present and communicate complex solution designs in a simple manner
- Strong ability to solve challenging problems independently as well as to work collaboratively in distributed international teams
- Ideally, experience in the field of e-mobility
- Fluent in German and English
- Travel requirements: generally remote position and traveling only as per need, usually around 16 working days per year to headquarter in Dortmund or similar KOSTAL locations
Additional Information
What do we offer :
- Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
- Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
- Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
- Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
- KOSTAL is a dynamically developing company, an independent, family-run business which provides much flexibility
- You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative
Join KBS where new opportunities meet the stability of 113 years of legacy at a stable, future-focused company!
