Cloud Unit Lead

Team: R&D

Location: Rotterdam

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the product vision and strategy for Mendix Multi-Cloud offerings, defining direction and roadmap

• Build and develop the Cloud Unit team, managing people across engineering, design, product management, and program management functions

• Drive collaboration and integration across the broader Siemens cloud software ecosystem, including strategic partnerships with AWS and Azure

• Represent Mendix Cloud and Private Cloud solutions to other Siemens product units, ensuring alignment and synergy

• Partner with Mendix and Siemens software marketing and sales teams for effective positioning and field enablement of cloud offerings

• Manage on-call rotations and take responsibility for outages, escalations, and service level performance

Qualifications Required:

10+ years of experience in software engineering product development with demonstrated leadership impact

• 5+ years leading cloud operations, DevOps, or SRE organizations with proven track record meeting service level agreements and non-functional requirements (availability, reliability, performance, resilience)

• Strong understanding of cloud-native software development principles and Infrastructure-as-Code practices

• Fluent in English with German or Dutch as a secondary language

• Familiarity with hyperscaler offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP) and knowledge of the IaaS/PaaS competitive landscape

Preferred:

• Foundational knowledge of AI, machine learning, and Generative AI applications in software engineering and cloud operations