IIoT Platform Technical Lead (Industrial IoT)

Location: Hybrid role based in Kolding, Skjern, Østbirk or Hørsholm, Denmark. Regular on-site presence in Skjern and at manufacturing locations in Denmark is required; work from home is allowed up to two days per week when tasks and projects allow. Occasional international travel is required.

Company

hirify.global is an international, family-owned manufacturing business headquartered in Denmark, with 20 production companies in 12 countries, sales companies in 37 countries, and around 12,000 employees.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the IIoT platform technical roadmap across runtime, frameworks, connectivity, data contracts, developer tooling, observability, and lifecycle capabilities.
• Coordinate technical planning, design reviews, coaching, escalation, and external engineering contributions across the platform engineering group.
• Establish engineering guardrails, reference patterns, development paths, and clear boundaries between shared platform services and domain-specific applications.
• Contribute hands-on to platform services and reusable components through design, development, testing, reviews, and complex problem-solving.
• Support observability, incident investigations, operational improvements, security, patching, vulnerability remediation, upgrades, documentation, and technical debt management.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in software, platform, or integration engineering, including technical leadership in an industrial IT/OT or digital manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing-domain needs and Unified Namespace, with the ability to make effective technical choices for platform users and engineering teams.
• Direct experience building C#/.NET services and APIs, plus experience with event-driven or decoupled architectures, containerised deployment, and modern DevOps practices.
• Practical knowledge of industrial connectivity and edge technologies, including MQTT, edge runtimes, and container orchestration.
• Understanding of industrial data contracts, observability or SRE practices, and OT cyber security.
• Ability to translate product priorities into an actionable platform roadmap, technical guardrails, and engineering practices.
• Ability to make practical technical design decisions while involving engineers and stakeholders in workable solutions.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills across engineers, product roles, architects, vendors, and manufacturing stakeholders.
• A platform mindset focused on reuse, self-service, consumer enablement, operational excellence, and long-term maintainability.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical leadership role without formal people-management responsibility.
• Hybrid working with up to two home-working days per week when project needs allow.
• Regular collaboration with manufacturing locations in Denmark and occasional international travel.
• Equal-opportunity workplace focused on diversity, inclusion, mutual respect, and professional development.
• Application review and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Hiring process

• Submit an application and CV as soon as possible.
• Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis until the right match is found.