Platform Lead E2E Architect

• End-to-end ownership of the platform architecture, covering digital channels, backend services, orchestration, integration patterns, data models, network interfaces, and operational architecture
• Define and evolve the long-term technology strategy and architectural roadmap, aligning to business goals, multi-market needs, and platform-scalability requirements
• Govern architectural standards, guardrails, and principles, ensuring consistency, reusability, and coherence across all value streams and platform teams
• Lead high-impact architectural decision-making, balancing innovation with standardisation and managing trade-offs across performance, security, cost, and delivery speed
• Partner with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Technical Principals, and Network Architects to ensure features are technically feasible, sequenced effectively, and built on solid architectural foundations
• Drive platform evolution - including Identity, Product Catalogue, Charging, Billing, SIM/eSIM lifecycle management, Mediation, Observability, and Event Infrastructure
• Champion AI-enabled automation, architectural modernisation, and continuous simplification of technical landscapes
• Represent Digital & IT in cross-functional governance, senior-level design forums, partner engagements, and roadmap planning
• Line Management - Experience guiding senior technical professionals, fostering a high-performance engineering and architecture culture, and providing coaching, feedback, and professional development across multi-disciplinary teams
• Leadership - Ability to drive collaboration across organisations, align to a common goal and ensure project delivery against obstacles
• Communication - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executives, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders, and presenting confidently at senior forums
• Vendor Management - Skilled in forming strategic partnerships, leading technical evaluations, and managing supplier delivery to ensure architectural alignment, cost efficiency, and platform scalability
• Agile - Strong advocate for modern product-centric and agile delivery models, with hands-on experience enabling autonomous teams, refining backlogs, and embedding iterative, incremental delivery practices at scale.

• MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or related discipline
• 10+ years of experience in architecture roles, with significant exposure to cloud, APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
• Demonstrated architectural leadership within large, multi-squad engineering organisations
• Track record delivering platforms integrated with telecom BSS/OSS components
• Business-fluent English
• other European languages beneficial.

Other European languages

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