Cloud Solution Architect (IoT / Onecta Platform)

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 …