Entity: Daikin Europe HQ
Job Category: Information Technology Solutions
Location:
Ghent, East Flanders, BE
Job Requisition ID: 2944
About EDC
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.
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.
Your Role
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.
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.
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.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & technical leadership
Define, document, and maintain the end-to-end architecture of our IoT cloud platform (device cloud apps integrations)
Translate business needs into scalable, robust, and future-proof technical architectures
Ensure alignment across cloud services, APIs, mobile apps, and device communication layers
Drive architectural decisions balancing performance, cost, scalability, and reliability
Platform evolution (Onecta & beyond)
Support the evolution of the platform towards:
API-first and integration-friendly architectures
Data-driven services and analytics use cases
Multi-application and multi-stakeholder ecosystems (end-users, installers, partners)
Identify gaps, technical debt, and improvement opportunities in the current architecture
Validate architectural choices through proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations
Security, compliance & reliability
Ensure security-by-design principles are embedded in the architecture
Take into account regulatory requirements (e.g. CRA, NIS2) and operational constraints
Design with observability, maintainability, and operational supportability in mind
Collaborate with security and operations roles to ensure production readiness
Collaboration & coordination
Work closely with development teams, product owners, and other architects to ensure implementation aligns with architecture
Act as a technical counterpart towards external partners and suppliers
Support and guide teams in making consistent architectural decisions
Facilitate architecture reviews and cross-team alignment
Operational awareness
Stay connected to real-world platform behavior (incidents, performance issues, operational feedback)
Ensure architecture decisions consider run-time implications and support processes
Contribute to improving platform stability and operational efficiency
Your Profile
Experience & background
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Experience in cloud architecture or software architecture (IoT experience is a strong asset)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservice-based architectures
Experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably AWS)
Technical knowledge
You bring experience with modern cloud-native and IoT architectures, including:
Strong understanding of:
API design and integration patterns (REST, OAuth2, API gateways)
Event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication
Designing scalable and highly available distributed systems
Experience with technologies and patterns such as:
Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure (plus)
IoT & communication: MQTT-based communication, IoT platforms (e.g. AWS IoT Core or equivalent)
Compute & backend: serverless architectures and/or containerized services
Data & storage: NoSQL databases and event streaming systems
API & integration: API gateways (e.g. Kong or similar) and microservice communication patterns
DevOps & automation: modern CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform or similar)
Familiarity with:
Observability (logging, monitoring, tracing)
Cloud security concepts (IAM, secure APIs, network isolation)
Our offer
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.
Hybrid: You will have the possibility to work from home 2 days per week.
Location: Tech Lane Ghent Science Park
