Technology Architect (Expert) for Professional Services Migration team (m/f/d)

Job ID: 744000155500352

Technology Architect (Expert) for Professional Services Migration team (m/f/d)

Košice

Professional

Regular

Deutsche Telekom System Solutions Slovakia

Your Task

We are looking for a Cloud Migration Architect for the Cloud Migration & Transformation team. The Cloud Migration Architect is responsible and accountable for development and optimization of Cloud IT architecture, carrying out analysis and evaluation of customer and technical requirements, developing implementation concepts, and holding accountability for implementation. You will define and drive Deutsche Telekom's cloud migration strategy, architecture standards, methodologies, and service offerings.

You will act as a technical leader across multiple customer engagements and internal initiatives, shaping migration frameworks, developing scalable service portfolios, defining architectural standards, and guiding strategic transformation programs. You will collaborate with engineering teams, product organizations, managed services, sales, and executive stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of large-scale cloud transformation initiatives. Beyond customer projects, you will actively influence the evolution of the migration portfolio, automation capabilities, AI-driven delivery models, and cloud adoption best practices across the organization.

This role identifies and evaluates innovations in technology fields and is actively involved with implementation within the Group and in the industry (standardization, open source communities, suppliers, interest groups, patents, etc.).

Responsibilities

Cloud Transformation Leadership

• Define migration and modernization strategies for enterprise customers
• Act as lead architect for complex cloud transformation initiatives
• Drive architectural governance across migration programs and cloud platforms
• Provide technical leadership during critical customer engagements and strategic opportunities
• Serve as trusted advisor for cloud adoption, operating model transformation, and migration execution
• Implement complex customer requirements in technical solutions in accordance with best practices, cost-efficiency and future security based on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), T cloud private, T cloud public

Migration Portfolio and Methodology

• Define and evolve cloud migration service offerings and delivery packages
• Develop migration frameworks, standards, blueprints, and architectural patterns
• Establish migration methodologies, readiness assessments, quality gates, and best practices
• Create reusable approaches for infrastructure, database, application, and container migrations
• Ensure portfolio alignment with business objectives and market requirements

Solution Architecture

• Design target cloud architectures and landing zones
• Define migration paths, workload transformation approaches, and platform strategies
• Review and approve high-impact customer solutions
• Support architecture decisions across networking, security, operations, automation, and cloud-native services
• Drive architectural consistency across multiple delivery teams

Automation and Innovation

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks
• Promote DevSecOps and platform engineering practices
• Lead initiatives focused on AI-assisted migration assessment, design, documentation, and delivery automation
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and integrate them into service offerings where appropriate
• Continuously improve scalability, repeatability, and operational efficiency of migration services

Customer Engagement and Business Development

• Support strategic pre-sales engagements and solution workshops
• Participate in deal reviews, architecture boards, and executive customer discussions
• Review commercial assumptions and technical feasibility of migration programs
• Contribute to business cases, proposals, and transformation roadmaps
• Represent Telekom as a cloud transformation expert during customer and industry events

Technical Leadership

• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical consultants
• Establish architecture communities and knowledge-sharing practices
• Review design artifacts and provide technical guidance across teams
• Act as escalation point for complex technical challenges
• Influence long-term technology direction and architectural standards

Management Scope

• Serve as point of escalation, review, and approval for architecture issues
• Manage the conception, planning and implementation of the contractually agreed services results
• Lead technical workshop with customer to gather parameters required for migration

Your Profile

We are looking for a Cloud Migration Architect who combines enterprise architecture expertise with cloud transformation leadership. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical knowledge of public cloud platforms, extensive experience in large-scale migration initiatives, strong automation and DevSecOps practices, and excellent stakeholder management abilities.

Must Have Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience with public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP) and/or T cloud private (former FCI), T cloud public with strong focus on cloud transformation and enterprise architecture
• Deep expertise in public cloud platforms
• Deep expertise in virtualization
• Deep expertise in infrastructure
• Deep expertise in networking
• Deep expertise in security
• Deep expertise in managed services
• Extensive experience leading large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Understanding of operating models
• Understanding of landing zones
• Understanding of governance frameworks
• Understanding of enterprise cloud adoption strategies
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code
• Strong knowledge of automation
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices
• Strong knowledge of platform engineering practices
• Ability to translate business requirements into executable technical strategies
• Ability to manage technical stakeholders from engineering teams up to executive leadership
• Experience building service portfolios, methodologies, standards, or reusable delivery frameworks
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong mentoring skills
• Capability to drive architectural decisions in highly ambiguous and complex environments
• Excellent written communication skills in English
• Excellent verbal communication skills in English
• Expert level communication skills
• Expert level analytical thinking
• Expert level stakeholder management
• Expert level functional leadership

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with OpenStack
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud-native technologies
• Experience with automation platforms

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. 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

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 not be lower than €2,200 gross.

Company Policies

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

Job Benefits

Financial

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

Lifestyle & Wellness

Benefits with focus on health and sport

Work-Life Balance

• Attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio
• Remote working possibility (within Slovakia)

Family & Personal

Benefits with focus on family and work-life balance

Professional Development

Over 25 different benefits with focus on learning and development