Principal Engineering Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Define and govern the technical dimensions of the product portfolio and the associated engineering platforms.

• Sustain a long-term technical strategy, ensuring alignment with the portfolio reference architecture.

• Identify, monitor, and manage portfolio-level technical debt that affects scalability, maintainability, or reliability.

• Assess emerging technologies and convert innovative initiatives into actionable development paths.

• Assist engineering teams in navigating complex technical trade-offs and design decisions.

• Establish architectural assets, principles, standards, and reference patterns to guide engineering teams.

• Coordinate and execute architectural initiatives through architects embedded within development teams.

• Provide technical oversight for significant product capabilities and cross-system integrations.

• Align product architecture with both on-premises and cloud infrastructure capabilities and standards.

• Define architectural patterns that support service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs).

• Collaborate with SRE teams on strategies for recovery, monitoring architecture, and capacity planning.

• Interface with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure conformity with regulatory and industry standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10–15 years of experience in software engineering.

• Expertise in implementing distributed real-time data-processing environments.

• Experience leading architecture governance across multi-site engineering teams in intricate product organizations.

• Proven track record in leading agile teams in the capacity of product owner.

• Extensive technical knowledge in:

• Cloud platforms and distributed systems.

• Analytics, edge processing, and BI pipelines.

• API, microservice, and integration architectures.

• Generative AI / LLMs (OpenAI, LangChain, RAG, Agents, Vector DBs, etc.).

• Observability and reliability engineering.

• Secure software architecture.

• Experience in telecom software environments is advantageous.

• Familiarity with MLOps and model lifecycle is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible workplaces - adaptable work schedules, workspaces, and locations.

• Inclusive culture - everyone’s voice matters.

• Sustainability - environmental, social & governance programs (ESG Group).

• Innovative environment - shape the future of next-gen networks.

• Competitive compensation and benefits plans.

• Career development plans.