Principal Platform Engineer / Lead Architect (m/f/d)

Do you want a job with a purpose?

And do you want to make healthcare safer, better and more reliable?

Join our Team!

Join us as our Principal Platform Engineer / Lead Architect (m/f/d) in the Imaging Platform Engineering Team at Dedalus, one of the World’s leading healthcare technology companies, in Austria or in Germany (Home office possible) to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact in providing better care for a healthier planet.

What you’ll achieve

As Principal Platform Engineer / Lead Architect, you will be a senior technical authority for the platform used to deploy and operate our solutions across customer, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will combine architecture ownership with hands-on engineering, guide application teams, and ensure that the platform remains secure, scalable, maintainable, and operationally robust. You will turn complex product, service, and operational requirements into clear technical direction and sustainable platform capabilities.

Your tasks:

• Own and evolve the technical architecture of the deployment and runtime platform for customer and cloud installations

• Define architectural principles, standards, patterns, and guardrails for platform components and application integrations

• Translate product, service, security, and operational requirements into sustainable technical concepts and implementation strategies

• Contribute hands-on to platform components, automation, tooling, deployment mechanisms, and integration patterns

• Guide application teams in integrating their services coherently into the overall platform architecture

• Ensure compliance with quality, security, scalability, maintainability, and serviceability requirements

• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews for critical platform and integration topics

• Lead technical alignment across development, DevOps, service, security, product management, and architecture stakeholders

• Mentor senior engineers and strengthen engineering practices through knowledge sharing, workshops, and internal training

• Evaluate new technologies, lead proof-of-concepts, and drive their responsible introduction into the existing system landscape

Essential Requirements:

• Several years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or solution architecture

• Experience owning or significantly shaping the architecture of complex, distributed, or enterprise software platforms

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based environments, container platforms, and modern deployment architectures

• Solid working knowledge of distributed systems, Linux, networking, and automation

• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and release or deployment automation

How You Work:

• You translate complex product, service, and operational requirements into clear technical direction

• You contribute to architecture, design, and code reviews, and help assess technical risk

• You mentor and guide engineers, sharing knowledge through reviews, workshops, and pairing

• You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• You take a structured, pragmatic, and solution-oriented approach, and stay effective in complex or high-pressure situations

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in healthcare IT, medical imaging, PACS/RIS/VNA, clinical workflows, or another regulated software environment

• Experience with both on-premises enterprise deployments and cloud or SaaS architectures

• Hands-on knowledge of identity and access management, service meshes, observability stacks, and database platforms

• Familiarity with security, compliance, and operational requirements in healthcare environments

• Experience with large-scale platform modernization or product transformation initiatives

• Deep understanding of quality attributes such as availability, scalability, security, operability, maintainability, and performance

• Experience conducting formal architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments

For Austria only: The minimum salary for this position is € 55.400,-- gross per year (38.5 working hours) according to the IT-collective agreement in Austria, an overpayment plus bonus arrangement depending on qualification/experience is self-evident for us

We are Dedalus, come join us

Dedalus is committed to providing an engaging, rewarding work experience that reflects the passion our employees bring to our mission of helping clinicians and nurses deliver better care to their served communities.

Our company fosters a culture where employees are encouraged to learn and innovate, and to enable and enhance clinical co-operation and processes while making a meaningful difference for millions of people around the world. Each person is the end point and the starting point of the Group’s activities and the ultimate beneficiary. For this reason, we are so proud of doing our very special jobs each day.

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of 7,600 people in more than 40 countries that work together to innovate and drive better healthcare options for millions of patients around the world. We are the people of Dedalus.

Application closing date:15.09.2026.

Our Diversity & Inclusion Commitment sets out Dedalus’ approach to ensuring respect, inclusion and success for all our colleagues and the wider communities we operate in. It is imperative for us to share our commitment and dedication to ensure an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recognise that we have improvements to make, and, on this journey, we must remain authentic and realistic but also ambitious.

Our diversity & inclusion commitment – Dedalus Global

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