Enterprise Architect for AWS (m/f/d)

Job Description

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect for AWS team in Hyperscaler Managed Services.

Purpose

Enterprise Architect is responsible / accountable for development and optimization of IT architecture on Enterprise level. For this purpose, this role carries out analysis and evaluation of customer and technical requirements, develops implementation concepts and holds accountability for implementation.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Define and drive Deutsche Telekom's architecture standards, methodologies, and service offerings.
• 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.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, product organizations, managed services, sales, and executive stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.
• Actively influence the evolution of the migration portfolio, automation capabilities, AI-driven delivery models, and cloud adoption best practices across the organization.
• Identify and evaluate innovations in technology fields and be actively involved with implementation within the Group and in the industry (standardization, open source communities, suppliers, interest groups, patents, etc.).

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.

Solution Architecture

• Design target cloud architectures and landing zones.
• Build and maintain production systems on AWS using ALB, ELB, WAF’s, S3, Serverless, API’s, Route53, etc. with the use of IaC (Terraform and CloudFormation).
• 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 product 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.

Qualifications

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Have 10+ years of professional experience in IT with strong focus on cloud transformation and enterprise architecture.
• Possess deep expertise in AWS platform, virtualization, infrastructure, networking, security, and managed services.
• Have extensive experience leading large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Understand operating models, landing zones, governance frameworks, and enterprise cloud adoption strategies.
• Have strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, DevSecOps, and platform engineering practices.
• Are comfortable translating business requirements into executable technical strategies.
• Can manage technical stakeholders from engineering teams up to executive leadership.
• Have experience building service portfolios, methodologies, standards, or reusable delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrate strong presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and mentoring skills.
• Are capable of driving architectural decisions in highly ambiguous and complex environments.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Have experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and automation platforms (considered an advantage).

Ideal Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate is not only an architect but a transformation leader who combines:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Cloud Strategy
• Migration & Modernization
• Portfolio Ownership
• Technical Leadership
• Automation & AI Enablement
• Customer Advisory
• Business Acumen

Soft skills (expert level):

• Communication, presentation and negotiation skills
• Analytical thinking
• Stakeholder management
• Functional leadership

Additional Information

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

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 click to 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 2500 € /brutto.

Additional information

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