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Head of Cloud Platforms Center of Excellence (f/​m/​d)

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Head of Cloud Platforms Center of Excellence (f/m/d)

Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Our Cloud Platforms Center of Excellence is looking for YOU!

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

  • Define and drive the enterprise cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and a clear, future-proof adoption roadmap.
  • Establish and enforce cloud platforms governance frameworks, ensuring security, regulatory compliance, and full transparency across all environments.
  • Own and evolve the cloud platform architecture, delivering scalable, secure, and high performing infrastructure and services.
  • Build and lead the Cloud Center of Excellence, enabling teams through guidance, standards, and best practices for effective cloud adoption.
  • Drive innovation by adopting modern cloud technologies and continuously optimizing platforms, processes, and operating models
  • Define and enforce standards, reusable patterns, and best practices to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across the enterprise
  • Execute parts of larger transformation programs (e.g., cloud adoption, ERP enhancements, cybersecurity improvements, automation initiatives, Agile/DevOps practices).
  • Translate domain-level roadmaps into actionable team delivery plans, ensuring milestones, quality, and KPIs are met.
  • Ensure disciplined execution through backlog management, delivery rhythm, and clear status communication.
  • Own the day-to-day delivery and operation of defined applications, platforms, products, or services.
  • Ensure service reliability, incident resolution, problem management, and continuous improvement based on data-driven insights.
  • Coordinate with architecture, security, and other delivery teams to ensure alignment and dependency management.
  • Manage and optimize team-level budgets, including resource planning, tooling costs, vendor and contractor assignments, and small-to-medium investment requests.
  • Provide input to business cases and cost and benefit assessments for domain-level initiatives.
  • Ensure team compliance with governance frameworks, cybersecurity requirements, risk processes, and audit-relevant controls.
  • Maintain documentation, operational procedures, and evidence relevant for internal or external audits.
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering and operational practices within the team, including Agile ways of working, DevOps practices and CI/CD, cloud-based delivery, automation and standardization, and ITSM/ITIL processes.
  • Promote coding, testing, security, and operational excellence.
  • Build high-performing teams through coaching, development plans, objective setting, and regular feedback.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
  • Ensure constructive stakeholder engagement with business users, product owners, architects, security, and operations teams.
  • Align team priorities with the domain roadmap and enterprise technology standards.
  • Contribute insights to planning cycles, investment proposals, and capability development discussions.
  • Support organizational change within your area, helping teams adapt to new processes, structures, and ways of working by translating direction from senior leaders into clear expectations and practical steps.
  • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders (product owners, business managers, project leads, Works Council interfaces), ensuring consistent communication, expectation management, and early escalation of risks or dependencies.
  • Coordinate the delivery of services, products, or workstreams, ensuring tasks are prioritized, allocated, and monitored effectively to meet time, budget, quality, and compliance requirements.
  • Lead team leaders and specialists, providing day-to-day guidance, coaching, performance input, and support in building skills and career development.
  • Support capability development within your team, identifying skill gaps, facilitating upskilling and knowledge sharing, and contributing to hiring and onboarding processes.
  • Drive clear communication and engagement at the team level, running structured updates, supporting team cascades, and ensuring information flows smoothly between teams and senior leadership.

Your profile

Core Leadership Expectations

  • Strong understanding of how technology enables Uniper’s value creation, commercial performance and operational resilience. 
  • Strong collaboration capability to co-create priorities with business peers and DT L2, L3 and L4 colleagues, ensuring shared direction and integrated execution. 
  • Full accountability for mission-critical processes and IT systems supporting all DT delivery units. 
  • Ability to contribute to a unified leadership team with a shared strategic vision, holding end-to-end accountability for digital products, platforms, and core IT services in an environment of accelerating technological change.


Role-specific qualifications 

  • You hold an academic degree (bachelor’s or master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • You have 5-8+ years of professional experience in IT delivery, engineering, operations, or product environments and 2-4+ years of experience managing technical staff or team leads.
  • You bring the ability to collaborate proactively across adjacent teams and functions, resolving dependencies and blockers, and ensuring alignment with agreed architecture, security, and process standards.
  • You have demonstrated experience in encouraging agile behaviors and continuous improvement, helping teams apply iterative delivery practices, adopt new tools or processes, and identify efficiency and quality improvements.
  • You bring a strong sense of ownership for team outcomes and the delivery of stable, high quality IT services.
  • You bring a role-model mindset in embracing new technologies, continuously developing relevant capabilities, and enabling teams to innovate, learn, and adapt
  • You have proven ability to ensure team activities contribute to business and technology objectives, tracking progress, supporting benefits realization, and maintaining alignment with L3 strategic direction.
  • You communicate effectively in English (mandatory); additional languages such as German support collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders across Uniper.

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:

  • Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
  • Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
  • Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

Mobility:

  • Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
  • E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

  • Flu vaccination
  • Preventive health services
  • Employee assistance program

Company pension:

  • Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
  • Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

  • Lifelong training
  • Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

career@uniper.energy

Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered!

Job ID:

89536

Location:

Düsseldorf, Germany

Type of contract:

Unlimited

Working model:

Full-time, Hybrid, undefined

Start date:

immediately

Application deadline:

31/10/2026

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail and we will get back to you:

career@uniper.energy

Top Employer Germany 2026

What makes Uniper stand out as an employer

  • Training

    Further education

    With a mix of digital and analog learning formats and topic-specific communities, we promote your personal and profossional development and lifelong learning.

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    Coachings and Mentoring

    Experienced specialists and managers are happy to support you in strengthening your skills and advancing your career development.

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    Open feedback culture

    Performance discussions, 360-degree feedback and employee surveys will help you and the company move forward, strengthen our collaboration and give you room to contribute your ideas.

  • Health

    Health care

    Safety and well-being are our top priorities. That's why we offer you regular free preventive medical checkups as well as a variety of learning impulses on occupational safety, health and well-being, and support programs.

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    Sport and Fitness

    With our online exercise courses, sponsorship of your participation costs in central sports events and a large sports community, we offer you a healthy working environment.

  • Canteen

    Healthy nutrition

    You can enjoy a wide range of healthy and balanced meals in our canteen. In addition, you can participate in nutrition programs.

  • Fonds

    Insurance and coverage

    We take care of you and offer you a wide range of coverage beyond the legal requirements with our company pension plan, accident insurance, company health insurance and continued salary payments in the event of illness.

  • Money

    Financial benefits

    We pay capital-forming benefits and offer you a wide range of financial benefits through our corporate benefits program

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    Work Life Balance

    We support you in balancing your private and professional life through flexible working time models, job sharing, sabbaticals and extensive offers in the area of child care and nursing.

  • Car

    Free parking spaces

    We provide you with free parking spaces.

  • Bicycle

    Job bike leasing

    We offer you the option of leasing a bicycle through deferred compensation with financial benefits.

The benefits may vary slightly depending on location and role. You can find a complete overview of the benefits here:Benefits
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Transforming energy security through expertise and commitment

Uniper is a European energy company with a global reach that makes a decisive contribution to security of supply and energy transformation.  We work in very diverse teams and offer our employees as much flexibility as is possible.

Equity, mutual appreciation and respect are the core of our corporate culture. At our company you will have the opportunity to shape new technologies, work on solutions for a modern and future-oriented energy supply and actively design change processes.

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Virtual tour of our offices in Düsseldorf

With our virtual reality tour, you can experience Uniper from a completely new perspective. Our Düsseldorf offices can be viewed in detail without being on site. You can also get to know your colleagues and the working environment virtually. A highlight of the tour is built right into the beginning: a video from a bird's eye view impressively shows how attractive our location in the Medienhafen is.

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Düsseldorf

Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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Düsseldorf

Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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Düsseldorf

Uniper has been based at our headquarters in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour since 2019. Our central office consists of the two buildings Caprocorn and Float, which are connected by a walkway to form a single unit.

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Düsseldorf

On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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Düsseldorf

On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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Düsseldorf

On the office floors, the modern furnished meeting areas and lounges are located in the centre of each floor and our colleagues work separately from the passage areas, each with window fronts. All workstations have modern equipment and height-adjustable desks.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

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Düsseldorf

We offer many services at the location that positively support everyday working life. These include an IT walk-in centre, a fitness studio, an underground car park with free parking spaces for cars and an extra garage for bicycles, including showers. For a balanced diet, there is a canteen as well as a café and a deli with fruit and healthy snacks, which are also open to the public.

Application process

Step 1 - Online application

Step 1

Online application

Have you found a suitable job posting? Then you can apply online right here. The application process is very simple and only takes a few minutes. Once we have received your application successfully, you will receive confirmation by e-mail immediately afterwards.

Your questions. Our answers.

Do you have any questions?

Do you have any questions?

Our recruiting team will be happy to assist you via email. Please submit your application exclusively through our online portal – unfortunately, we cannot consider applications sent by email. As long as the position is listed on our careers page, we look forward to your interest and application!

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