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VP Platform Engineering (m/w/d)

München oder Großraum Rosenheim
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

You build and lead the Group Platform organization of the Orca Group, creating the technological foundation that enables our Product and Engineering teams to build faster, more securely, and at scale.

Your focus is on three core areas: a shared platform for agentic AI products, Security by Design, and a scalable cloud platform with group-wide standards. You will evolve our historically grown infrastructure into a shared, cloud-native, and AI-enabled platform.
You directly own Cloud & Platform Engineering and lead the group’s three core platform areas together with the Head of Data & AI Platform and the Head of Cybersecurity. You report directly to our Group CTO.
  • Develop and own the group-wide platform strategy and target architecture across Cloud, Data, AI, and Security and translate it into a clear roadmap.
  • Build the technological platform for agentic AI products, enabling our Product teams to use AI agents securely and at scale on customer and product data.
  • Establish shared AI platform capabilities for model access, agent runtime, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and cost and usage management.
  • Develop a shared cloud and developer platform with standardized cloud foundations, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, self-service, and clear golden paths.
  • Embed Security by Design across software development, AI agents, and cloud infrastructure together with Cybersecurity.
  • Manage reliability and cloud and AI costs, creating transparency around technical performance, unit economics, and relevant platform KPIs.
  • Lead and develop the three platform areas – Cloud & Platform Engineering, Data & AI Platform, and Cybersecurity – and establish shared engineering standards across the Orca Group.

Your profile

  • Several years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud, or Infrastructure, including multiple years in a senior technical leadership role.
  • Proven experience shipping agentic AI products to real customers, including LLM-based agents, tool use, and multi-step workflows running on real customer data.
  • Experience building or operating an AI platform for production workloads, including model access, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and cost management.
  • Proven experience building a cloud or developer platform used by multiple Product teams and establishing continuous delivery and self-service.
  • Strong knowledge of modern cloud and platform technologies, ideally within the Azure ecosystem, as well as experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to discuss complex AI, cloud, and architecture trade-offs with both Engineering teams and senior management.
  • Confident communication skills in English (at least C1 level) and German (at least B2 level).
  • Nice to have, but not a must: Experience with platform-as-a-product, FinOps, SaaS transformations, or multi-product and PE-backed environments.

Why us?

At Orca, you’ll be part of a fast-growing software group that is continuously evolving and gives you the opportunity to actively shape change. You can expect an agile environment with short decision-making paths, plenty of room to make an impact, and close collaboration with leadership and management. At the same time, we place great value on a strong team culture and a modern working environment. Depending on the location, you’ll also benefit from a range of additional benefits, including sports and health programs, team events, childcare support, and a company pension scheme.

Kontakt

Fabienne Göbel
Group Talent Acquisition Partner
M: Fabienne.goebel@orca.group

About us

Creating space for great things to become reality.
Pooled expertise for construction. The Orca Group was founded on the conviction that construction processes work better when information flows freely and tools work together.
That is why we bring together the know-how of leading specialists in CAD, AVA, controlling, BIM, and site documentation under one shared brand.
Our companies contribute decades of experience in their respective fields. Together, we combine them into solutions that ease the workload of teams, simplify coordination, and make decisions clearer.
We are your partner who understands the reality of construction and makes life easier with modern software.