Director of IT Architecture and Quality Engineering

Description

• Take responsibility for the holistic IT architecture, including shadow IT, ensuring a coherent, evolvable and consistent architectural landscape across all domains.
• Establish architecture guardrails and decision frameworks that enable autonomous team decisions, with focused reviews for high-risk or cross-domain changes.
• Coordinate and align architecture across domains, ensuring interoperability and consistency while allowing appropriate flexibility for domain teams.
• Lead One IT Quality Engineering practices, promoting automation, reliability and observability across internal and external systems.
• Plan and implement the architectural strategy, including the company’s vision, objectives and technology development directions.
• Create and maintain IT solution architecture aligned with long-term business and technology visions.
• Identify business potential and collaborate with business partners to develop innovative architectural solutions.
• Manage IT-area architecture and provide substantive oversight of architectural consistency across projects and technology changes.
• Analyse and optimise technology solutions, including technical-debt reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Define and continuously improve architecture-management practices, including project reviews and technology assessments, to ensure consistency and efficient delivery.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security and data teams to ensure integrated, consistent solutions.
• Define and evolve pragmatic architecture standards and guardrails, enabling teams to reuse platform building blocks and deliver consistently.
• Build and lead an architecture guild, fostering collaboration, pragmatic standards and knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

Requirements

• Proven director-level leadership and management experience in enterprise architecture or a related discipline.
• Experience managing organisational change and driving digital transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture practices, including designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
• Exposure to telecommunications environments and/or modern composable, API-first architecture approaches, such as TM Forum and MACH Architecture.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API management and modern integration patterns.
• Expertise in cybersecurity architecture, data architecture and infrastructure design.
• Knowledge of legacy-system modernisation and modern application-development approaches.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, containerisation, DevOps practices and emerging technology trends.
• Ability to think strategically, manage cross-functional initiatives and communicate effectively at executive level.
• Fluent English and Polish.

Preferred

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks or certifications, applied pragmatically in real-world environments.
• Experience establishing or evolving a Design Authority or similar architecture-governance model that balances consistency with team autonomy.
• Familiarity with telecommunications-specific architecture patterns and OSS/BSS landscapes.

Benefits

• Senior leadership role in a major IT transformation programme.
• Direct reporting line to the CIO, with visibility and influence at the highest organisational levels.
• Collaborative, ambitious IT leadership team focused on building a world-class IT organisation.
• Competitive compensation package commensurate with the seniority and scope of the role.