Cloud infrastructure and digital transformation for wholesale operations
METRO.digital is a product engineering org built inside METRO AG, focused on cloud enablement and AI adoption across a large retail operation. The stack—Google Cloud (Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Composer) paired with Azure and multi-cloud governance tools (Terraform, IAM, VPC)—reflects active infrastructure modernization. Hiring skews senior and manager-level across engineering, suggesting mid-transformation scaling rather than greenfield building; concurrent projects on security governance integration, spend transparency, and an AI platform roadmap indicate simultaneous pressure on cost control, compliance, and capability building.
Notable leadership hires: Chapter Lead
METRO.digital delivers IT solutions for METRO AG's wholesale operations, including retail checkout systems (m.pos air) and back-office infrastructure. Founded in 2020 as a standalone product company within the METRO organization, it operates from Düsseldorf with 501–1,000 employees across engineering, data, ops, and product teams. The company is actively transforming METRO's technology foundation from legacy systems toward cloud-native architecture, with current work spanning multi-cloud governance, AI platform development, cost and security observability, and internal service marketplace enablement.
Google Cloud (Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, Dataform, Cloud Run) and Azure (with Azure AD), plus on-premises governance via Terraform, VPC, and IAM across multi-cloud infrastructure.
Major initiatives include cloud enablement and governance, AI platform development, security policy automation, spend transparency dashboards, m.pos air checkout systems, and implementation of a target operating model for large-scale transformation.
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