Catholic archdiocese serving 1M+ across western Germany with 3,000 staff
Erzbistum Paderborn is a large nonprofit religious organization operating across 15,000 km² in western Germany, managing pastoral care, education, and cultural programming through approximately 3,000 employees and volunteers. The tech stack is firmly Microsoft-centric (365, Azure, Teams, Exchange) paired with VMware virtualization — a standard enterprise IT posture for an organization of this scale. Active hiring across ops, HR, and administrative roles, combined with ongoing projects in cloud tenant optimization and on-premises infrastructure integration, signals a phased digital modernization effort focused on back-office efficiency rather than product innovation.
Notable leadership hires: Director Assistant, Personnel Development Lead, HR Team Lead
Erzbistum Paderborn is the Catholic archdiocese of Paderborn, founded in 799, covering a region spanning from Minden to Siegen in western Germany, with administrative reach into adjacent areas of Hesse and Lower Saxony. The organization operates three core functions: pastoral care and counseling, education and formation, and arts and cultural programming. Staff of approximately 3,000 employees work alongside volunteers to deliver these services across the archdiocese. Operationally, the organization runs on Microsoft enterprise infrastructure (365, Azure, Teams) integrated with VMware virtualization, and is actively modernizing administrative workflows including accounting digitalization, personnel planning, and hotel operations management.
Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, Azure AD), Microsoft Azure cloud, and VMware vSphere/vCenter virtualization. Current projects include cloud tenant architecture optimization and integration of on-premises VMware with Microsoft cloud services.
Currently hiring in Germany only, with positions focused on administrative, HR, pastoral, and operations functions.
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