Our vision - your future

Cofinity-X is a joint venture founded in 2023 by BASF, BMW Group, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Schaeffler, Siemens, T-Systems, Volkswagen, and ZF. Established by industry experts, our company is primed for growth and is intended to be further led by professionals like yourself.

Your mission

• Independent creation and accountability for Cloud architecture concepts in Microsoft Azure with a strong focus on security 
• Coordination with internal and external stakeholders 
• Coordinate tasks with external providers to achieve common goals 
• Assisting technical teams with Cloud architectures, ensuring technical feasibility, secure system integration, and compliance with security standards 
• Ensuring technical feasibility and successful system integration 
• Continuous improvement of the platform based on architecture principles and security principles 
• Responsible for the technical performance and scalability of software products and services, ensuring security best practices 
• Managing and advising on concept implementation in collaboration with developers 
• Resolving design challenges and contributing to agile process shaping 
• Defining infrastructure tests, developing architectural blueprints, and ensuring security is integrated into all stages of development 
• Contributing initiatives and IT architecture principles 

Your profile

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree / Certification and/or working experience in information technology and IT Architecture  
• Strong organizational skills, initiative, and accountability 
• Experience in data integration solutions and understanding of decentralized architectures 
• Knowledge of platform management and GitOps and security best practices 
• Kubernetes and containerized applications, experience for deployment and orchestration 
• Enthusiastic about learning and implementing new technologies, and adaptable to change 
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with partners and stakeholders 
• Desired skills: Ansible, Terraform, Hashicorp Vault, GitHub, CI/CD deployment concepts, ArgoCD, Atlassian Confluence / Jira, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Grafana products, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Java / Python, Azure / GCP / AWS (Preference Azure) 

Why us?

• Hybrid working model
• Balanced work-life balance with flexible working hours
• Annual training budget for continuous professional and personal development (1.500 EUR)
• Free choice of hardware, including private use
• Monthly lunch subsidy (up to 108 EUR)
• Deutschland Ticket to Job Bike for environmentally friendly mobility options
• Workation to work remotely from different locations within the EU
• We offer every employee a pensions scheme (Betriebliche Altersversorgung) with company sponsorship
• Regular team events to strengthen cohesion and foster a positive working atmosphere
• A modern office with an impressive view of the Cologne Cathedral

About us

Cofinity-X GmbH is based in Cologne and was founded in 2023. It is a joint venture of BASF, BMW Group, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Schaeffler, Siemens, T-Systems, Volkswagen and ZF. The vision of Cofinity-X is to run an open marketplace for the provision of own and third-party business applications and further services that enable secured and standardized data transfer along the automotive value chain in accordance with the Gaia-X and Catena-X principles with initial focus on the European market.