Contract type: full-time/part-time, unlimited/limited
Entry: At the earliest possible date
Top #Skills: #Architecture Frameworks #Technology Strategies #Telecommunication

Flex and Connect - work where it's most productive.
Our flexible working model gives you the freedom to organize your work location and working hours flexibly. Attendance at our o2 Telefónica locations throughout Germany plays an important role: it promotes direct dialogue, strengthens our corporate culture and contributes to building strong networks. In this way, team spirit remains a decisive success factor even in a flexible working environment. We will discuss further details about our hybrid working model during the application process.

As Head of Architecture (m/f/d), you will take on a leadership role with a strong focus on people management and strategic direction. Your primary responsibility is to guide and empower a team of specialists and executives across multiple levels, ensuring that the unit delivers outstanding results through expert leadership rather than individual technical contributions.
Your mission is to define, develop, and drive the company wide technology target architecture (e.g. IT, network, digital) ensuring its seamless implementation in alignment with business and technology goals. You will lead the transformation of the department, making it a core pillar of the company's future way of working.
This role demands exceptional professionalism, strategic foresight, and deep technical expertise. If you are a visionary leader with experience in managing complex Technology landscapes at the highest level, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact on the future of the Telefónica's technology architecture.

What we offer

#Technology Strategies: Define the company target technology architecture in alignment with business and technology goals, shaping the company's Technology landscape for the future
#Business Transformation: Design and lead the architectural transformation of technology domains to enable and support key business objectives
#Innovation: Evaluate and integrate new technologies, platforms, and frameworks in close collaboration with delivery teams to ensure scalability and future readiness
#Technology Architecture: Plan, initiate, and oversee the necessary initiatives for implementing the target architecture, ensuring smooth adoption across the organization
#Governance: Establish and enforce integration architecture principles, end-to-end solutions, and domain-specific technology solutions while applying industry standards and best practices
#Thought Leadership: Develop and execute departmental strategies and transformation plans, making architecture a key pillar of the company's future way of working
#Project Collaboration: Ensure seamless operationalization of the technology architecture by working closely with delivery teams and business units.
#Financial Accountability: Take full ownership of budget, performance, and resource planning, ensuring efficiency and excellence in execution

What you bring:

You hold a university degree in #computer science, #business informatics, #industrial engineering, #telecommunication or a comparable field
With at least 15 years of professional experience in Technology/IT functions within the #telecommunications industry, you have built a strong foundation in leading complex technology environments at scale
Extensive experience in #leadership and #people management allows you to develop and inspire high-performing teams
Mastering #enterprise and #solution architecture, you understand how to align #technology with #business strategy to drive #innovation, enable business growth
Over the past five years, you have gained a deep understanding of products, #business processes, #customer needs, digital and AI , and #IT, #network, service structures in the #telecommunications, media, or similar industries
Your expertise spans current and emerging technologies, including #microservices, event-based messaging, API, #hyperscaling, graph and #NoSQL databases, #AI, digital , #(C)VNF, #ORAN, and more
Successfully leading large-scale digital, IT and NT transformation projects from architecture perspective , you have driven initiatives such as #open-source adoption, #cloud migration, and #IT landscape digitization, cloudification of network functions, data driven organization, adoption of cutting edge technologies to enable business outcomes (e.g. AI)
Proven experience in understanding standardization approaches in industry &beyond (e.g. #CAMARA, #TMForum, #GSMA/3Gpp, #ETSI)
You master communication in #English; #German and/or #Spanish are a huge plus