Tech Lead - Integration; m​/f​/d

We develop and operate customised IT solutions for the Vorwerk Group and drive the digital transformation with innovative services and agile methods. Our vision: ‘We are your IT @Vorwerk’ – an integrated part of value creation and a reliable partner within the Group, which can look back on more than 140 years of history.

As a successful international company, we offer a creative, collaborative work environment and support at every stage of life, ensuring work-life balance with various benefits.

Join us in shaping the future of Vorwerk.

The IT Tech Lead Integration will design, build and operate secure, scalable APIs, integration flows, event streams and data pipelines across our integration platform, ensuring alignment with the platform’s information layer (canonical data model) and enterprise API governance exposed through the Developer Portal.

This role leads technical delivery for API-first integrations (SAP-driven and non‑SAP), enforces API security and lifecycle practices, mentors engineers, and contributes to platform roadmaps and runbook/gov processes.

• Core platform & Cloud: 6+ years enterprise integration or API development experience, with 4+ years hands‑on in Azure services (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault).
• API‑Management & Security (must):
  Deep, demonstrable experience implementing, operating and securing Azure API Management (APIM) deployments – policies, developer portal, policy fragments, versioning, and CI/CD automation.
• Strong knowledge of API security standards: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mutual TLS, API key management and claims‑based authorization; experience integrating with identity providers (Azure AD/Entra , ADFS, external IdPs).
• Experience with API threat protection patterns (rate‑limiting, quotas, caching, request validation, input sanitization, WAF considerations).
• SAP & SAP BTP (must):
  Proven experience building SAP‑driven APIs using SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry / Kyma / API Management on BTP) and integrating with SAP S/4
  
  HANA and SAP Integration Suite is required.
• Integration & Messaging:
  Experience with message‑based integrations – Azure Service Bus and Event Grid (required);
  Solace Pub Sub+ experience is desirable.
• Development & Automation:
  Strong experience in one or more backend languages (.NET/C#, Java, Node.js) and REST/SOAP API development.
• CI/CD and Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience using Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub Actions and Bicep/ARM/Terraform for APIM and integration deployments.
• Observability & Operations:
  Practical use of Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and API analytics for troubleshooting and SLO/SLA reporting.
• Security‑first mindset: consistently thinks in terms of threat modeling and secure by design across the API lifecycle.
• Systemic thinking: understands information layer, canonical models, and the downstream impacts of design choices on consumers and data quality.
• Collaboration & stakeholder management: able to align product owners, SAP teams, security and platform operations; communicates technical trade‑offs clearly.
• Mentorship & leadership: experience mentoring mid/senior engineers, providing constructive design/code reviews, and raising team maturity.
• Problem solving under pressure: calm and structured during incidents, leads RCA and remediation plans.
• Continuous improvement orientation: advocates automation, observability, and process improvements for reliability and security.

• Design, develop and publish REST/SOAP APIs, GraphQL or lightweight façade APIs as required, using Azure API Management (APIM) and SAP BTP for SAP‑driven APIs.
• Build integration logic in Azure Functions, Logic Apps, or durable workflows and implement message‑based flows where required.
• Configure and maintain APIM instances, developer portal, policy fragments and versioning; implement security policies (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT validation, mutual TLS, API keys, IP restrictions, CORS).
• Integrate APIM with Entra  (including B2B/B2C where required), Key Vault for secrets management, and CI/CD pipelines for policy and API definition deployments.
• Implement data pipelines and ETL/ELT tasks using…