Solution Architect Cloud & AI Platforms

About

At enercity, architecture is about enabling delivery at scale. In this role, you design the cloud and AI foundations that allow teams to work securely, efficiently, and with confidence.

As a Solution Architect for Cloud & AI Platforms, you build paved roads on Azure instead of one-off solutions, ensuring that innovation moves quickly into production and scales reliably across the organization.

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Responsibilities

• As a Solution Architect for Cloud & AI Platforms, you design and oversee end-to-end AI solution architectures on Azure, ensuring alignment with the Azure Well-Architected Framework. This enables secure, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms.
• Architectures are shaped to address security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operational excellence from the outset.
• You define and implement enterprise-scale landing zones and environment topologies in line with the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, enabling compliant and scalable AI development across the organization.
• In addition, you create and maintain reference architectures, architectural decision records (ADRs), and Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD templates to guide teams through spikes, proofs of concept, and reference implementations.
• Production readiness is ensured by establishing security and privacy controls, observability standards, high availability and disaster recovery strategies, and performance baselines prior to deployment.
• You conduct design reviews and technology evaluations, providing clear guidance on build-versus-buy decisions and runtime selection.
• Working closely with Security, Data, Operations, Compliance, and Platform teams, you drive architecture alignment and document decisions through ADRs.
• Architecture options and trade-offs related to risk, cost, and time-to-value are communicated clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• A completed degree in computer science, business informatics, software engineering, or a comparable technical field forms the foundation for this role.
• Extensive experience in solution architecture, cloud engineering, or platform engineering, complemented by proven expertise in Microsoft Azure.
• Confident use of Azure Landing Zones, the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and the Cloud Adoption Framework is standard practice for you.
• You bring deep knowledge of AI and ML platforms such as Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, and MLOps pipelines, as well as modern data architectures.
• You apply Infrastructure-as-Code and automation with confidence, particularly using Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in establishing security controls, observability patterns, and production readiness standards is a strong part of your background.
• You demonstrate expert-level proficiency in cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes/AKS.
• You are practically familiar with networking, identity management (Azure AD, RBAC), and compliance frameworks.
• You validate architectural decisions pragmatically through prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Architecture documentation and working with ADR processes are a natural part of how you operate.
• Your working style is pragmatic and collaborative, balancing innovation with operational excellence.
• Fluent English skills, both written and spoken, are required; German language skills are a plus.

Contact

Carina Ruthe - Recruiter:in Telefon: E-Mail: carina.ruthe@enercity.de, carina.ruthe1@enercity.de