Tech Lead (m/f/d) Customer Data & Account

Digital. Inspiring. Unique.

Tchibo is one of the ten largest eCommerce companies in Germany. We could never have attained this standing without the courage to constantly rethink the old ways. In the digital world at Tchibo, we work with the latest technologies to develop sustainable and effective solutions. Do you want to help us do this? Enrich our team with your fresh ideas!

Your tasks: You make the difference with us.

Our Customer Data & Account team owns the end-to-end technical foundation for customer data, customer accounts, and customer identity across all sales channels. We build cloud-native services that connect a modern custom software landscape with an enterprise-grade SAP core, and we are expanding the scope of this domain significantly. We are looking for a Tech Lead who can own the architecture, set the direction, and bring together the people and teams needed to deliver it.

As Tech Lead for the Customer Data & Account team, you will be responsible for the overall technical architecture of a domain that spans customer registration, login, account management, and customer data across all of our sales channels. This is a cross-team technical leadership role focused on architecture and direction rather than day-to-day development. You will shape how the system evolves and help the teams building it move in the same direction.

• Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture across customer data, customer accounts, and all sales channels
• Set technical direction across multiple teams and align the domain's evolution with product and engineering leadership
• Guide the integration between the custom software landscape and the SAP systems (mainly CDC), working closely with the teams responsible for SAP and non-SAP solutions that require customer data in integration with the Google Cloud Platform.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, and address risks early
• Lead technical alignment with internal and external stakeholders, mentor engineers and technical leaders, and stay close enough to implementation to review decisions credibly

Your profile: You keep reinventing us.

• You communicate clearly and can adapt your style to different audiences: engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders alike
• You make decisions pragmatically, weighing architectural trade-offs rather than optimizing for theoretical perfection
• You are comfortable setting direction even when the full picture is not yet complete, and you update your position when new information changes the situation
• You understand both the big picture and enough technical detail to challenge and guide implementation decisions credibly
• You develop the people around you and see mentoring technical leaders as part of the job
• You enjoy working across team and organizational boundaries and treat coordination as a core responsibility, not an overhead

Minimum qualifications

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Software Architect
• Experience owning end-to-end system architecture across multiple teams or technical domains
• Experience leading or coordinating distributed or cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures
• Experience designing integrations across multiple systems and technical domains
• Ability to work across organizational and technical boundaries, including with teams using different technology stacks
• Strong communication, facilitation, prioritization, and decision-making skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Kotlin, Quarkus, TypeScript, Vue, or Nuxt
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Cloud Run, Cloud Run Functions, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, or GKE
• Experience integrating custom software with SAP or other enterprise platforms
• Experience in the customer identity, customer accounts, customer data, commerce, or omnichannel domain
• Experience working with external technology providers or system integrators
• Experience mentoring technical leaders in addition to individual engineers

Your Benefits: Together We Stay Different

• Work-Life Balance : Flexible hybrid working policy, 26 vacation days + your birthday off.

• Perks : Monthly transport allowance, meal tickets, health & life insurance.

• Coffee Lovers Welcome : Free Tchibo coffee for home and office.

• Innovative Work Culture : You’ll work on impactful projects in a collaborative and open-minded team.

• Diversity & Inclusion : A place where your perspectives and ideas are valued.