Senior Cloud Architect

Our digital innovation centre WEPA.digital is looking for a new team member:
**Senior Cloud Architect (M/F/d)
**WEPA.digital is an agile environment for young-minded change makers and technology enthusiasts with a passion for engineering the digital tomorrow of our company. Key to our mission is a central platform based on cloud technology that serves as the backbone for our connected future. With a cutting-edge technology stack, we not only fuel our business with data and drive better decisions. Our cloud environment also empowers us to make leaps forward by enabling powerful use cases from real-time analytics to low code automations and custom software solutions.

With your experience with cloud technology and hands-on mentality, you will design, implement and optimize cloud solutions that are scalable, resilient and aligned with our business goals. You will ensure that our infrastructure is agile, secure and cost-effective, enabling us to innovate and stay ahead in the digital age.

Hybrid working: up to 95% remote possible; 5% on-site in Düsseldorf required

**Your Tasks**
- You design and deploy enterprise-level cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure to support us in our digital transformation by advancing the implementation of our WEPA.cloud
- You translate business requirements into cloud solutions, ensuring they align with the company's objectives and IT strategy by collaborating in an agile setting with IT, development, and business teams
- You lead initiatives to optimize cloud costs, performance, and security
- You collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate on-premises infrastructure with Azure services
- You stay updated with Azure's latest offerings and leverage them to drive innovation and efficiency
- You develop and implement cloud governance, best practices, and standards and mentor teams on Azure You work on a broad variety of digital technology projects (including Industry 4.0, Robotic Process Automation, etc.)

**Your Profile**
- **Qualification**:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- **Personality**:Ability to work in a team, flexibility, motivation
- **Working**:Independent, team-oriented and structured work
- **Experience and Know-how**:

- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in cloud architecture with a focus on Microsoft Azure
- Demonstrated success in designing and implementing large-scale cloud solutions
- Azure certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, are highly desirable
- Strong proponent of agile methodologies and practices
- Ability to translate business needs into actionable cloud solutions.
- **Languages**:Very good English skills.

**What else we offer**
- **Team**:Become an important part of an interdisciplinary and international team of technology experts and solution developers.
- **Creativity & Responsibility**:We keep the hierarchy as low as possible and give room for creativity; we want people who take ownership of topics and successfully implement them.
- **Personal development**:We give you room to grow personally, discover new strengths and develop your skills.
- **Flexible working**:We work at the times and places that allow us to realize our projects in the best possible way.
- **Modern working environment**: Our modern office in downtown Düsseldorf provides the framework for creative and contemporary work. And good work requires good equipment - that's why you can choose your own equipment.

Become a crucial part of our interdisciplinary and international team of technology experts

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 13 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 70 years.

We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:
**Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.**

University degree (Bachelor, Master, Diploma or similar)