About this role
<p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">About EDC</span></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">Within the EMEA Development Centre (EDC), the Electrics and Controls department is responsible for the development of connected solutions across Daikin’s product portfolio, including embedded systems, mobile applications, and cloud platforms.</span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">Our cloud ecosystem (including Onecta and related services) plays a central role in enabling smart, connected HVAC solutions, integrating devices, installers, partners, and digital services into a scalable and future-proof platform.</span></p><p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Your Role</span></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and evolving the architecture of our IoT cloud platform, ensuring it remains scalable, secure, and aligned with evolving business and regulatory needs.</span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">You act as a central technical authority, bridging product teams, development teams, and external partners, and ensuring end-to-end architectural consistency across our ecosystem.</span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">You will play a key role in continuously improving the Onecta platform architecture, adapting it to new use cases such as integrations, APIs, data-driven services, and regulatory requirements.</span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Key Responsibilities</span></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Architecture & technical leadership</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Define, document, and maintain the end-to-end architecture of our IoT cloud platform (device → cloud → apps → integrations)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Translate business needs into scalable, robust, and future-proof technical architectures</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Ensure alignment across cloud services, APIs, mobile apps, and device communication layers</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Drive architectural decisions balancing performance, cost, scalability, and reliability</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Platform evolution (Onecta & beyond)</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Support the evolution of the platform towards: </span></li> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">API-first and integration-friendly architectures</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Data-driven services and analytics use cases</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Multi-application and multi-stakeholder ecosystems (end-users, installers, partners)</span></li> </ul> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Identify gaps, technical debt, and improvement opportunities in the current architecture</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Validate architectural choices through proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Security, compliance & reliability</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded in the architecture</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Take into account regulatory requirements (e.g. CRA, NIS2) and operational constraints</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Design with observability, maintainability, and operational supportability in mind</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Collaborate with security and operations roles to ensure production readiness</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Collaboration & coordination</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Work closely with development teams, product owners, and other architects to ensure implementation aligns with architecture</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Act as a technical counterpart towards external partners and suppliers</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Support and guide teams in making consistent architectural decisions</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Facilitate architecture reviews and cross-team alignment</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Operational awareness</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Stay connected to real-world platform behavior (incidents, performance issues, operational feedback)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Ensure architecture decisions consider run-time implications and support processes</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Contribute to improving platform stability and operational efficiency</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Your Profile</span></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Experience & background</span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Experience in cloud architecture or software architecture (IoT experience is a strong asset)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice-based architectures</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably AWS)</span></li> </ul> <p style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="color:black">Technical knowledge</span></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU, serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:black">You bring experience with modern cloud-native and IoT architectures, including:</span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Strong understanding of:</span></li> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">API design and integration patterns (REST, OAuth2, API gateways)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Designing scalable and highly available distributed systems</span></li> </ul> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Experience with technologies and patterns such as:</span></li> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure (plus)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">IoT & communication: MQTT-based communication, IoT platforms (e.g. AWS IoT Core or equivalent)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Compute & backend: serverless architectures and/or containerized services</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Data & storage: NoSQL databases and event streaming systems</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">API & integration: API gateways (e.g. Kong or similar) and microservice communication patterns</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">DevOps & automation: modern CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform or similar)</span></li> </ul> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Familiarity with:</span></li> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px" type="circle"> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)</span></li> <li style="color:black;line-height:15.0pt;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Cloud security concepts (IAM, secure APIs, network isolation)</span></li> </ul> </ul><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Our offer</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">This challenging position offers you growth opportunities at the European headquarters of global leading company. We offer a permanent contract for an indefinite period. From the start you can count on thorough training and intensive support. Your competitive salary is supplemented with an attractive package of fringe benefits.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Hybrid: You will have the possibility to work from home 2 days per week.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Location: Tech Lane Ghent Science Park</span></p>