Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

The main purpose of this job is senior technical expert responsibility for design and implementation of an assigned technology.

About the project

IT in your blood? Are you a lateral thinker, creative, innovative and passioned for the infrastructure of digital growth areas? The cloud and legacy infrastructure your field of interest? Then join us in driving the digitization of Magenta IT to achieve the best customer satisfaction and guide the technological Transformation towards a Multi and Hybrid-Cloud environment. 

Our maxim: Technology leadership and innovative IT services from a single source.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

As Lead Architect, you will plan and implement modern infrastructures to enable the Applications to build their solutions on a reliable infrastructure within the Hyperscalers and in our datacenters. 

You will work in a dynamic team and act as a trustworthy partner and mentor to implementation teams, assuring they have access to and are applying the appropriate technical stack and guidelines consistently.  

To ensure this in the long term, you will be in regular dialogue with both management and architecture teams.  

• You will design, develop, build, secure, and maintain modern infrastructures which are needed to create a vast experience for our customers at scale.

• You will ensure teams are able operate those infrastructures / platforms to ensure that they function to the highest standards of quality whilst scaling to accommodate peak demands. 

• You will be responsible to guide teams and accountable for creating re-usable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in order to create re-useable code (i.e. modules, packages etc.).

• You will be responsible to apply software engineering best-practices to our infra-oriented work.

• You will drive project, security and enterprise level guidelines and assure their consistent application in deliveries. 

• You will review existing implementations, capture new requirements, identify opportunities, and work on enablers to facilitate and drive continuous improvement in the development of capabilities.

In addition the role is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for an Agile Release Train (ART) to help ensure the System or Solution under development is fit for its intended purpose. Architects describe the Solution Context and Solution Intent, analyze technical trade-offs, determine the primary components and subsystems, identify the interfaces and collaborations between them, define Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs), guide Enablers through the Program and Solution Kanban systems, and work with Product Management, Solution Management, customers, and Suppliers to help ensure fitness for purpose. They play a critical role in aligning teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) to a shared technical direction and partner with those teams in elaborating the Solution, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
The SA is an active member of the Community of Agile Engineering (CAE) in our hub and drives the development of the engineering maturity of the teams.

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

You are an experienced Architect who comfortably shifts between legacy infrastructure and SDN based solutions within Hyperscalers and our private cloud and have:

• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as a Code and Software engineering best-practices

• Expertise with enterprise grade cloud infrastructure and its automation

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS, GCP) and VMWare standard services. 

• Experience in Design and Implementation of central infrastructures as a code for sovereign cloud based on public cloud provider's capabilities

• Profound knowledge of modern methods, processes, procedures, and techniques of IT service development.

• Practical skills in the analysis of complex requirements and the recognition of overarching relationships.  

• Persuasiveness and communication / argumentation skills at management level. 

• Fluency in English, German is advantage. 

Benefits

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will vary and will not be lower than 2500 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.