Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture (m/f/d)

Bayreuth, DE

Germany / Bayreuth

CYBEX is a company that puts tomorrow’s people at the heart of its brand. Always questioning the status quo and not afraid of challenging the establishment, CYBEX has become not just a leader in child safety but is seen as an innovative lifestyle and fashion brand for parents. We offer car seats, baby carriers, kids furniture and strollers enabling parents to keep their little ones safe in style. After growing rapidly in the last few years, we look for ambitious talent to contribute to CYBEX’s success story.

Area of responsibilities:

Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to define technical requirements, and deliverables, and assist in setting expectations within the business.
Defining and updating of the overall technology vision and strategy, helping to ensure its progress within the Product Development roadmap.
Hands-on creation and presentation of Architecture Design Documents that capture non-functional requirements from the perspective of business, software, data, and infrastructure architectures.
Review all architecture documents created by your team to ensure completeness in vision and accounting for the competing concerns of the technology strategy, non-functional requirements, customer needs, and product roadmap.
Mentoring and developing engineering staff in architectural concerns.
Keep current on technical advances in the industry, including microservices, distributed systems, cloud, deployment and delivery automation, machine learning.
Accountable for the design, ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scaling, and availability characteristics of the systems.
Supports and reinforces our development process with the architecture and product management teams, acting as a champion for high-quality implementations, and helping communicate and clarify our processes.
Perform code and design reviews of components created by engineers and architects.
Drives the architectural and service governance program (guardrails).
May occasionally need to perform hands-on development of interfaces and frameworks for the engineering team to further implement.
Work with product management, business stakeholders, and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, and long-term roadmaps and shape business directions; drive the non-functional requirements of the product.
Meet occasionally with enterprise customers in support of our largest deals, create presentations for customers representing our technology current and future state, provide estimates and guide scoping for extensive mission-critical system needs, and mentor the team to do so.

Profile of qualification:

Develops enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies.
Develops the technical capability of their team as well as the IT organization as a whole.
Is passionate about integrating data and applications to create world-class composable systems architectures.
Analyzes technology industry and market trends and determines potential impact upon the enterprise.
Obsesses about creating and maintaining useful reference architecture standards.
Develops relationships with vendors and business partners.
Acts as a consultant to IT and business leaders.
Will have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and will have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development and performance.

CYBEX operates globally and has employees from over 29 nations. If you are keen to leave your footprint in a swiftly growing business that offers plenty of opportunities to grow both on a professional and individual level, you’ve come to the right place. As part of Goodbaby International Holdings Ltd., CYBEX is dedicated to creating an inclusive working environment that encompasses diversity and equal opportunities. In addition to a competitive salary, attractive annual leave, and discounts on our products you’ll have the chance to develop your personal profile in an international environment.