AI SDLC Lead Engineer (m/f/d) Cloud Architect

Job ID: 744000143255069

AI SDLC Lead Engineer (m/f/d) Cloud Architect

Košice

Professional

Regular

Deutsche Telekom System Solutions Slovakia

Your Task

This is a senior position focused on leading AI-assisted software engineering activities for Meridian by designing repeatable SDLC patterns that help analyse, validate, document, and evolve complex cloud software stacks. The role anchors the engineering approach for OpenStack-derived services, repository-scale understanding, and sovereign software handover readiness. The candidate should guide how coding agents, open-source or open-weight coding models, and enterprise-approved toolchains are used to accelerate code understanding, refactoring support, documentation, and transition readiness without weakening evidence quality or confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead AI-assisted SDLC patterns for repository intake, code exploration, service mapping, build diagnosis, documentation, and engineering evidence generation
• Guide analysis of OpenStack-derived control-plane services, APIs, dependencies, integration flows, and build structures across multiple repositories and teams
• Evaluate and operationalize AI development platforms, coding agents, and approved open-weight or Chinese coding model stacks for secure enterprise use cases
• Establish human-in-the-loop controls, quality gates, prompt libraries, reusable review patterns, and evidence standards for AI-generated engineering outputs
• Coach software engineers and platform specialists on safe, effective use of AI tools while coordinating with architecture, security, DevOps, and testing teams
• Produce senior stakeholder-ready artefacts including transition risks, service decomposition views, codebase maturity observations, and recommended engineering actions
• Work with AI development environments such as Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Continue, Cline, or VS Code-based extensions connected to enterprise-approved model endpoints
• Utilize open-source, open-weight, or Chinese coding-capable models such as DeepSeek Coder, Qwen/Qwen-Coder, CodeGeeX, StarCoder, Code Llama, Mistral, or similar models operated through approved controls
• Leverage agentic and SDLC workflow components such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines, evaluation loops, and structured tool-calling patterns
• Work within engineering environments including GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, private package registries, and terminal-native automation workflows

Your Profile

We are seeking a Senior AI-Assisted Software Engineering Lead with extensive software engineering experience, deep expertise in AI coding platforms and LLM-enabled workflows, strong hands-on coding abilities, and proven leadership in complex cloud software environments, particularly OpenStack-derived architectures.

Must Have Skills

• 8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or technical architecture roles
• Proven ownership of complex engineering workstreams
• Strong hands-on coding skills in Python
• Proficiency in at least one backend or systems language such as Go, Java, C, C++, or Rust
• Deep practical experience using AI coding agents for large codebases
• Deep practical experience using LLM-enabled SDLC workflows for large codebases
• Experience using AI tools for technical documentation
• Experience using AI tools for engineering acceleration
• Good understanding of OpenStack-derived cloud software architectures
• Knowledge of modular service decomposition
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with Kubernetes-based delivery
• Knowledge of platform operations
• Ability to lead senior engineers in ambiguous environments
• Ability to challenge AI outputs
• Ability to convert incomplete evidence into structured, actionable engineering decisions
• Comfortable working in high-accountability, confidentiality-sensitive enterprise programs
• Experience working with auditability and traceability constraints
• Experience working with sovereignty constraints
• Experience with AI development environments such as Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Continue, Cline, or VS Code-based extensions
• Experience with open-source, open-weight, or Chinese coding-capable models such as DeepSeek Coder, Qwen/Qwen-Coder, CodeGeeX, StarCoder, Code Llama, Mistral, or similar models
• Experience with agentic and SDLC workflow components such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines, evaluation loops, and structured tool-calling patterns
• Experience with engineering environments including GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, private package registries, and terminal-native automation workflows

About Us

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.

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.

The company offers over 25 different benefits to improve 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 benefits: Benefits

Salary: Final salary is negotiable.

Base salary will not be lower than €2,200 gross, depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary, the company provides variable part and other financial benefits.

Additional Details

Remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Job Benefits

Professional Development

Learning and development benefits

Lifestyle & Wellness

Health and sport benefits

Work-Life Balance

• Extensive work-life balance portfolio
• Remote working possibility (within Slovakia)

Family & Personal

Family and work-life balance benefits

Financial

• Base salary not lower than €2200/brutto
• Variable compensation component
• Additional financial benefits