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

Within Technology Europe, the EU IT Steering unit has the responsibility to safeguard the IT contribution of Deutsche Telekom’s Europe Business in the overarching business roadmap in alignment with the VT&I and EU Strategy. The challenge for the EU IT Steering is to ensure high-quality, secure, and high-performance solutions for the international environment. Target is also to minimize DTAG Cash Out and to obtain as much added value as possible based on EU and country IT Spend priorities. This target is achieved by effective governance that allows steering of IT Business in Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiaries (National companies / NatCos).

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

The IT Architect is responsible to adopt a business-outcome-driven enterprise and solution architecture approach that is iterative, evolves with business/product strategy and delivers business outcomes. 

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of an enterprise's solutions architecture. Working on a specific project and/or product, IT Architect is responsible for deliverables that consists of end-to-end solution architecture consisting of sequence diagrams, use cases, component architecture, data architecture, integration and infrastructure architecture.

The Architect is accountable for proactively and holistically leading project/product-related activities for creating deliverables that guide the developing direction in response to business needs, disruptive forces, and driving achieving targeted business outcomes. Solutions include systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

The Architect is expected to leverage and use technology solutions to enable the organization's future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted outcomes. They facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes working with multiple stakeholders including business, product owners, design and development teams, enterprise architects and NatCos.

In addition, your responsibility/tasks cover also following:

• Develop end to end solution architecture that considers holistic business requirements and implications, current state in the NatCos and technology choices
• Design a comprehensive target vision for a certain product or project and works closely with product, design and development and NatCo teams to plan transition towards the target vision
• Responsible for implementation of architecture concepts in product development and services
• Drive the specification of architecture and design patterns for developing digital architecture and microservices based solutions
• Consult and engage with engineering teams to solve problems at their root cause
• Create deliverables that provide exceptional clarity and connections to business objectives
• Assess emerging technologies and perform proof of concepts
• Collaborate with product teams, design teams, NatCos, enterprise architects and provide optimized solutions that provide business outcomes

Provide strategic direction and technical oversight pertaining to the implementation of new tools, technologies and solutions

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU HAVE:

• Extensive Solution Architecture experience at Enterprise level of multi-national Telecommunication industry
• Demonstrable experience in enterprise and solution architecture encompassing technical architecture, integration architecture, data architecture and application architecture.
• Experience in architecting end to end solutions for multi-country implementations, working with diverse design teams, spread across the globe.
• Experience in architecting and designing solutions across hybrid application landscape, consisting of legacy applications both COTS and homegrown applications as well as microservices, delivered using open source.
• Experience in leading and implementing technology prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations for new technologies.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective.
• History of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals and achieving them through intelligent actions, which balancing competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution
• Experience leading through influence in a complex, large, matrixed, global environment.
• Fluent in contemporary digital technologies and platforms, including UX, APIs, microservices utilizing container-based technologies (Docker, Swarm, Compose and Kubernetes), AI and Machine Learning, Analytics, XaaS,
• Outstanding collaboration, strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Global - International experience with the necessary cultural awareness and respect
• Self-driven attitude and behavior
• Willingness to travel (internationally)
• English language - C1 level
• German language - B2 level is an 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.