# Senior Software Architect

**Company**: MHP
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12123536

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## Description

## Job Description

As a Senior Software Architect at MHP, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our customers' projects. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure technical alignment and delivery excellence.

### Key Responsibilities

- Ensure implemented solutions align with defined architecture guidelines, business requirements, and the product roadmap.

- Provide technical leadership within the Agile Release Train (ART), supporting implementation teams with design guidance and resolving complex technical challenges.

- Contribute to architectural decision-making by evaluating trade-offs, documenting technical decisions, and ensuring adherence to agreed standards.

- Evaluate and prototype technologies to support solution design improvements, providing hands-on input into technical evolution.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders (Product Owners, QA, DevOps, System Architects) to ensure technical transparency, feasibility, and smooth delivery.

### Qualifications

- Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns, with the ability to translate high-level architectural concepts into robust, maintainable implementations.

- Experience working within established architectural frameworks (e.g., SAFe) and contributing to solution architecture discussions while ensuring alignment with enterprise guidelines.

- Ability to design, document, and communicate solution-level architectures and technical designs, producing clear technical documentation (design specifications, ADRs, interface definitions) using structured approaches such as arc42.

- Solid understanding of ASPICE standards and the V-Cycle development process, ensuring compliance within software development activities.

- Hands-on experience with system engineering concepts, modeling techniques (e.g., UML, C4 model), and architecture decision practices.

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (architecture, QA, DevOps, product management) to ensure technical alignment and delivery excellence.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience identifying technical risks and proposing mitigation strategies at solution level.

- Broad technical expertise across application development, data handling, system integration, and cloud-native technologies, including practical experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS and/or Azure.

- Experience working in Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and contributing to continuous delivery in a SAFe environment.

- Strong programming skills with extensive experience in object-oriented design and development, including clean code principles, refactoring, and test-driven development.

- Ability to mentor junior developers, perform code reviews, and promote engineering best practices within the team.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

### Benefits

- Start: by arrangement - always on the 1st and 15th of the month

- Working hours: full-time (40h); 27 vacation days

- Employment contract: Unlimited

- Line of work: Consulting

- Language skills: Fluency in written and spoken English, and German nice to have

- Flexibility & willingness to travel

- Other: a valid work permit

## At a Glance

As a technology and business partner, MHP digitizes its customers' processes and products and supports them in their IT transformations along the entire value chain. As a digitization pioneer in mobility and manufacturing, MHP transfers its expertise to different industries and is the premium partner for thought leaders on their way to a Better Tomorrow.

MHP serves more than 300 customers worldwide: leading corporations and innovative medium-sized companies. MHP provides both operative and strategic consulting together with proven IT and technology expertise and specific industry knowledge. As OneTeam, MHP operates internationally, with headquarters in Germany and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, Romania, and China.

For 25 years, MHP has been shaping the future with its customers. More than 4.000 MHP employees share a commitment to excellence and sustainable success. This aspiration continues to drive MHP - today, tomorrow, and in the future.

MHP: DRIVEN BY EXCELLENCE.

http://www.mhp.com/

## Skills

### Required
- software architecture
- agile development
- cloud-native technologies
- system engineering
- object-oriented design
- clean code principles
- refactoring
- test-driven development

### Nice to have
- arc42
- ASPICE
- V-Cycle development process
- UML
- C4 model
- architecture decision practices