Software Architect (E-Mobility platform)

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. Established in 1912, the company employs approximately 20,000 people across 47 locations in 22 countries.​

As part of its strategic expansion into energy solutions, KOSTAL acquired vaylens in 2023 – a software-focused company based in Dortmund, Germany. Vaylens specializes in hardware-independent EV charging management software, offering scalable and user-friendly solutions for charge point operators in both public and private sectors. By simplifying the operation of charging infrastructures and streamlining billing processes, vaylens enables businesses to efficiently manage and monetize their EV charging stations.

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.

 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