KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow® experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experiences to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

R&D unit in KTI is responsible for developing digital services at KONE. It’s the development engine for our Digital Services such as KONE 24/7 Connected Services,  Office Flow and Partnership Ecosystem.

We are looking for Cloud Automation Architect with strong expertise in Automation on AWS cloud, UI, API, Data and ML Ops. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on technical leadership, architect scalable automation solutions, and drive end-to-end solution design for enterprise-grade use cases. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, DevOps engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver automation-first solutions.

Role description:

Solution Architecture & Design

Architect and design automation solutions leveraging Cloud services and data management

Define E2E architecture spanning cloud infrastructure, APIs, UI, and visualization layers

Translate business needs into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical solutions.

Automation on Cloud

Lead automation initiatives across infrastructure, application workflows, and data pipelines

Implement operations use cases using Data Visualization and Cloud Automation

Optimize automation for cost, performance, and security

UI & API Integration

Design and oversee development of APIs and microservices to support automation

Guide teams on UI frameworks (React/Angular) for building dashboards and portals

Ensure seamless integration between APIs, front-end applications, OCR and cloud services

Data & ML Ops

Define architecture for data ingestion, transformation, and visualization on AWS.

Work with tools like Amazon QuickSight, Power BI to enable business insights

Establish ML Ops best practices for data-driven decision-making

Architect and implement end-to-end MLOps pipelines for training, deployment, and monitoring ML models.

Use AWS services like SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue, S3, Redshift for ML workflows.

Establish best practices for model versioning, reproducibility, CI/CD for ML, and monitoring model drift.

Team leading and Collaboration

Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native automation practices

Collaborate with product owners to prioritize and align technical solutions with business outcomes

Drive POCs and innovation initiatives for automation at scale

Requirements:

8–10 years of experience in cloud architecture, automation, and solution design

Deep expertise in Python for automation Use cases and understanding of ML Ops

Experience with data engineering & visualization tools

Knowledge of UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) for portals and dashboards

Expertise in AWS Cloud services for compute, data, and ML workloads

Strong understanding of security, IAM, compliance, and networking in AWS

Hands-on experience with MLOps pipelines (model training, deployment, monitoring).

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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