Company Description

The largest ICT employer in Hungary, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (formerly IT-Services Hungary, ITSH) is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Established in 2006, the company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5000 employees. ITSH was awarded with the Best in Educational Cooperation prize by HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as one of the most attractive workplaces by PwC Hungary’s independent survey in 2021 and rewarded with the title of the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Job Description

Join our international team as a Domain Architect in the Domain AAA (Architecture, Automation & AI platforms) in the Data tribe!

Purpose: 

• Are responsible for ensuring that the architecture at all levels (business, application, infrastructure,...) is in line with the architecture guidelines and roadmaps of higher-level entities. 
• Necessary initiatives, technical enablers and measures to adapt and optimize the architecture are designed, included in the backlogs and implemented 
• Design the architecture in their area of responsibility in such a way that both infrastructure costs are minimized and operational and further development costs are optimized. 
• Take into account current and future planning assumptions regarding infrastructure budgets, development capacity and skills in their planning, roadmaps and initiatives. 
• Provide transparency on the Architecture Runway in your area of responsibility and the key actions to develop it further. 
  - act as Business Epics Owner for architecture measures 
  - collaborate with architects in other domains and with the Data Tribe architects in joint teams and committees to define the Data Tribe architecture. 

Responsibilities: 
Aligning Business and Technical Strategies 

• Aligning organization design with optimal architectural design 
• Defining Strategic Themes (technologies, business domains, reference architectures, security, design thinking, architectural frameworks, governance, risk, and compliance) together with Portfolio Mgt and central Function Architecture 
• Identifying and designing Development Value Streams that optimize the flow of value for new and existing technology initiatives 
• Promoting, Enabling Built-in Quality 

Establish the Portfolio’s Intentional Architecture 

• Maintaining the architectural Runway,  to guide the evolution of solutions, existing code, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features without excessive redesign and delay. 
• Aligning technology approaches across Value Streams ensuring emergent design choices are made with an understanding of the overall architectural strategy and roadmap, minimizing technology complexity 
• Synchronizing technical disciplines (help synchronize various disciplines across solutions whenever applicable: system and data security and quality, production infrastructure, solution user experience and Nonfunctional Requirements. 

Rationalizing the Technology Portfolio 

• Eliminate redundancy by consolidating of similar applications 

• Minimize unnecessary IT spending by a well-organized technical architecture will provide the data needed to help define the necessity of future applications.  
• Maintaining & Reduce IT operational cost / complexity  by uncovering substantial savings after application rationalization, eliminating of unused applications and moving to the cloud 

Fostering Innovative Ideas and Technologies 

• Achieving business outcomes by using new technologies, practices, and standards 
•  Aligning technical decisions. Coordinate and develop common standards and architectures for system and data security, quality, production infrastructure, and Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)  
• Supporting the development environment by influencing and promoting good practices for modeling, system design, and coding 
• Retiring obsolete technologies --> migrate off outdated technologies and decommission solutions 

Interaction Partner(s): 

• close cooperation central function Architecture & Governance, Portfolio Mgt and PM/POs of value stream architects 
• taking architectural governance and standards of DT into planning & action within the teams 
• Close cooperation with DVSLs & teams 

Qualifications

• Assuming responsibility for all interactions of components, systems, functions from the network to the point of interaction with the customer; in this context, designing a comprehensive vision taking into account high-level business requirements and implications, and with a view to sustainability 
• Identifying innovations in technology fields and being actively involved with implementation within the Group and in the industry (standardization, open source communities, suppliers, interest groups, patents, etc.) 
• Devising concepts, policies, and other documents for the assigned area(s) of responsibility and agreeing these with internal departments and customers 
• Steering the architecture and design activities, including those of major strategic and international projects and programs 
• Bringing together and coordinating all services 
• Advising top management on technological, architectural issues of system development and integration 
• Practicing active management and transfer of knowledge  

Additional Information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.