Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Germany, Europe

Full-time

Permanent employee

What is Jedox?

At Jedox, we help businesses plan for a better future. Our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software empowers finance, sales, and other departments to budget, forecast, and analyze data—all in one intuitive platform. We’re on a mission to turn complex planning into #Superplännen: that amazing moment when everything goes exactly as you envisioned it.

Your Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead the Cloud Platform Engineering team, balancing technical leadership with strategic roadmap ownership. You will ensure that Jedox's cloud infrastructure meets current and future business needs, champion best practices and foster a collaborative, innovative engineering culture that is aligned with our values of Customer Success and Innovation.

Lead and mentor engineers: Provide guidance, coaching, technical decision-making and code reviews to support a high-performing engineering team.
Own the technical roadmap: Act as a Technical Product Owner, translating platform goals into actionable priorities and ensuring successful execution together with your team.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with the engineering, product management, support and other teams to implement product-related features and platform improvements.
Drive cloud best practices: Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards by promoting the adoption of modern cloud technologies.
Advance AI-driven solutions: Lead initiatives that integrate AI to enhance automation, efficiency and platform capabilities.
Ensure high-quality documentation: Maintain clear, accurate and comprehensive documentation of system architecture, APIs and platform components.
Foster innovation and teamwork: Cultivate creativity, continuous improvement and strong collaboration within a multidisciplinary, multiproject environment.
Solve complex challenges: Address challenging technical issues with curiosity, determination, and a solution-oriented mindset.

Your Profile

6+ years' professional experience, including at least 3 years' experience of delivering cloud-native solutions.
Proven experience as a technical lead and/or technical product owner, ideally in DevOps, cloud development or platform engineering.
Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud services (Azure preferred), Kubernetes (AKS preferred) and Helm.
Experience in implementing GitOps practices is required.
Familiarity with tools such as ArgoCD, GitHub, Crossplane and Keda.
Ability to plan and manage technical tasks in sprint environments.
Highly motivated to continuously learn and develop skills.
Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with strong attention to detail.

Nice to have:

Experience with Observability tools such as Loki, Grafana, Honeycomb, Thanos, Mimir, Tempo etc.
Use Golang, Python, PHP, or similar, to write code from time to time.
Knowledge of DR, Storage (NetApp), Networking, Load balancers, etc.

Location:

We are ideally looking for a candidate based near one of our office locations in Frankfurt or Freiburg. If you are located anywhere in Germany and willing to travel for team meetings, or if you’re excited about the opportunity to relocate to Germany, we would be delighted to hear from you.

What’s in It for You

A key leadership role in shaping the future of the Jedox Cloud Platform.
The chance to work with modern cloud-native technologies and innovative AI solutions.
A collaborative, supportive work culture rooted in #OneTeam values.
Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.
Strong cross-functional exposure across an international organization.

Transparency Note: Use of Artificial Intelligence

As a tech-driven company, Jedox uses modern technologies — including AI — to continuously improve our processes.
In recruiting, AI may support us in screening and structuring applications. It does not replace human judgment, but helps us reduce bias and ensure a consistent candidate experience. Your application is always reviewed by real people.

If you would like to learn more about the process, please visit the website of our partner Hi People. Here you will find information about the data protection guidelines as well as the most recent security checks. This gives you complete clarity on how your data is protected and processed. Of course, you can also contact us at any time if you have any questions.

Over ons

Jedox is a leading software solution that enables business planning, budgeting, and forecasting for finance, sales, and other business functions with leading-edge technology to drive Digital Transformation and provide tangible customer value. Constant innovation has made us a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) sector.

Why should you join our team?

Jedox culture is shaped by our global collaboration, our passion for people and development, diversity, and commitment to innovation. We refer to it as our #OneTeam mantra and it is engrained in everything we do.

The success of #OneTeam at Jedox is made possible by low hierarchies and fast decision-making processes.

We believe in lifelong learning and encourage team members to pursue personal and professional development, including internal & external training, certifications, as well as utilizing employee access to the LinkedIn Learning platform. We also enjoy regular team events such as Star Wars movie nights, seasonal and holiday parties, guest speakers, and family events.

The same effort and attention is given to ensuring employee satisfaction outside the office. Some of those perks include:

Work where and when you do it best: We offer the flexibility to work from home and give you ownership of your working hours.
Take time to care for yourself: We offer generous vacation and sick time, comprehensive health benefits plans and paid parental leave.
Plan for your future: Planning means something different to everyone. Enroll in our retirement savings plan. Work with your Line Manager to implement a career growth plan that suits your path and use LinkedIn Learning to deepen your knowledge.
Reduce your footprint: Work from home, the office, or both. All offices are centrally located and can be easily reached via public transportation. Most Jedox offices offer either public transit reimbursement and other perks such as bike leasing.