SOFTWARE ARCHITECT (Azure / Web / .NET / C#) - (m/f/d)

Company description

Publicis Media is the world\’s second largest media agency network and part of the French communications group Publicis Groupe. As a global holding company, Publicis Media lives through its global agency brands Zenith, Starcom and Spark, which manage and continuously develop the customer business in strategic communications consulting in over 100 countries. In addition, central teams of specialists at Publicis Media support the agencies\‘ clients in these areas: Data and Technology, Analytics and Insights, Research, Content, Performance, Buying and Business Development.

Overview

As Software Architect, you will play a key role in shaping the technical vision and architecture of our backend and full-stack systems—ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient solutions while guiding development teams through hands-on implementation and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across all backend and full-stack projects.
• Develop high-level product and application designs and concepts with attention to system integration, costs, efficiency, and feasibility
• Create application architectures with focus on availability, scalability, reliability, and security
• Set direction on key technologies (e.g., database strategy, event-driven architecture, API design, cloud services).
• Define with your colleagues all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Work closely with product managers to translate business requirements into technical plans.
• Successfully communicate all concepts, architectures, and guidelines to different development teams
• Analyse system behavior and/or performance profiling
• Oversee progress of development teams to ensure consistency with initial design
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers
• Ensure software and source code meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Hands-on part / Implementation of PoCs or concepts

Qualifications

MUST HAVE

Several years of professional experience in

• • Design cloud-native software architectures
  • Experienced in microservice architecture , event-driven and serverless architecture
  • Experience in .NET, C# and Azure
  • RESTful APIs with current .NET-Stack
  • Technical Lead experience

Soft Skills

• • • Experience in technical leadership
    • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to stakeholders and developers
    • Take over ownership and proactive development
    • Accustomed to European (German) business culture, communication, and way of thinking
    • Not afraid to advance your opinion and to bring in own ideas
    • Fluent English skills (daily work language), German skills nice to have

NICE TO HAVE

• Azure Certifications like Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Knowledge of CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Delivery & Deployment)
• JavaScript Frameworks (React preferred) / TypeScript
• Unit-Testing of front and backend code

Additional information

Learn & Grow

• Weiterentwicklung mit digitaler Lernplattform
• Individuelle Karriereperspektiven, strukturierte Weiterentwicklung
• Umfangreiche nationale und internationale Entwicklungsprogramme
• Offene Feedbackkultur mit strukturiertem Performancemanagement
• Mentoringprogramm

Work Your World

• Weltweites arbeiten möglich
• Bis zu 6 Wochen pro Jahr

Flexible Work

• Hybrides Arbeitsmodell
• Arbeiten an all unseren Publicis Media Standorten: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg und München
• Flexible Arbeitszeiten
• Zuschuss Deutschlandticket und Jobrad

Feel Well

• Überstundenausgleich
• 30 Tage Urlaub und weitere Sonderurlaubstage
• Agentursport
• Mental Health Program und Working with Cancer Policy

Responsibility

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiativen
• Sustainability Squad
• Social Projects

Your Start

• Welcome Week
• Buddy Program
• Intensives Onboarding

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