Thieme Gruppe

Principal Engineer (m/f/o)

  • Mobile Work in Germany
  • Stuttgart
  • Work experience
  • IT
  • Published: 2024-08-15
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Job ID: 1393

We’re looking for an enterprise architect that develops our architecture vision across our internal IT, product development and data/ML teams, identifying and supporting the teams in implementing an architecture that makes for great developer experience and business impact. 
You also believe architecture isn’t theory only but needs to be implemented to make a difference? Ready to show how to make architecture impactful across teams? Join us!

 Thieme is a leading supplier of information and services contributing to the improvement of healthcare and health. Employing more than 1,000 staff, the family-owned company develops products and services in digital and other media for the medical and chemistry sectors. Operating internationally with offices in 11 cities worldwide, the Thieme Group works closely with a strong network of experts and partners. The products and services are based on the high-quality content of Thieme's 200 journals and 4,400 books. With solutions for professionals, Thieme supports relevant information processes in research, education, and patient care. Medical students, physicians, nurses, allied health specialists, hospitals, health insurance companies and others interested in health and healthcare are at the focus of Thieme¿s activities. The mission of the Thieme Group is to provide these markets with precisely the information, services, and products they need in their specific work situation and career.

Department: Information Technology
Start: at the earliest possible date
Contract duration: unlimited
Working hours: full-time (40h/week)

Your new passion

  • Developing and evolving our enterprise architecture vision across internal IT, product development and data/ML with a focus on enabling teams and aligning with business goals.
  • Helping teams to develop towards the architecture vision by maintaining a balancing portfolio of initiatives that enable short term gains and long term strategic wins. As part of this you define architectural principles, standards and governance processes.
  • Collaborate with technical and product leaders across the organization to define and prioritize architecture topics across product roadmaps. You are aware of the full SDLC and understand how to measure success of architecture design against implementation.
  • You’re thinking how to ensure architecture is serving the business and teams, you understand how to make architecture impactful. To this end you are leading conversations with various audiences, including technical, business, and executive level.
  • Coaching tech leads/engineers across teams and the organization in architecture best practices, support with solution design and technology decisions.  

You inspire us with this

  • Proven experience with architecture in a large-scale enterprise environment across a large number of teams and systems.
  • Strong knowledge of various technologies and platforms e.g., cloud computing, on-big data, AI, IoT).
  • You understand requirements between different architectures and can translate this into technical designs. Your strong analytical mindset allows you to assess trade-offs between different approaches to drive impactful architecture decisions.
  • You come from a strong engineering background and stay up to date on technological developments around software engineering and understand the daily challenges of developers.  
  • Ability to think strategically and solve complex problems. 
  • You bring a clear, audience-sensitive style to your verbal and written communication in German and English. Note that you are interactive with senior stakeholders across the company that communicate in German, so a C1 level is required. 

What we offer you 

  • With the option of flexitime (40 hours/week for full-time employees) and mobile working within Germany, you can organise your own individual way of working. 
  • Use state-of-the-art hardware, which we will of course provide you with. 
  • Become part of a family-run, internationally active company - accompany our digital transformation and actively help shape the future of healthcare. 
  • Support pioneering innovations in the field of digitalisation and set new standards together with us. 
  • Experience a new work culture of participation - we focus on empowerment and respectful interaction with one another. 
  • Benefit from individualised offers from the Thieme.ACADEMY that promote your strengths and drive your personal development. 
  • You can also take advantage of our wide range of health and sports programmes. 
  • Adriane Hendlmeier
  • Talent Acquisition Manager