Platform Architect
Platform Architect at NTT DATA Romania in Cluj who owns the target architecture and phased modernization of a complex software platform, guiding delivery teams with reference patterns, standards, and hands-on solution design. Core focus: cloud-native architecture with containers, Kubernetes, microservices, APIs, event-driven integration, and DevOps/DevSecOps practices.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cluj, RO
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong expertise in platform, solution, or software architecture for complex enterprise applications and distributed systems
- Experience defining target architectures and modernization roadmaps for platforms that must keep operating while incrementally transformed
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, modular architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and event-driven systems
- Proven experience as a Lead Architect, Platform Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent role for a complex software platform
- Demonstrable track record leading platform modernization, technical standardization, or large-scale architectural improvement initiatives
- Ability to move fluently between strategic roadmap definition, solution-level design, technical review, and support for delivery execution
- Experience working in product-oriented, multidisciplinary environments with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Support teams
- Strong knowledge of non-functional architecture: scalability, resilience, performance, security, privacy, observability, disaster recovery, supportability, cost optimization
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated quality controls, DevSecOps, and production-operability practices
- Knowledge of identity and access management, secrets, secure integration, software supply-chain security, data protection, and architecture risk management
- Experience with architecture documentation, modelling, decision records, reference patterns, technical standards, and pragmatic governance mechanisms
- Ability to understand existing application landscapes, identify coupling and migration constraints, and design realistic transition states
- Strong product and delivery orientation, connecting architecture choices to customer outcomes and roadmap priorities
- Excellent facilitation, influencing, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills across technical and executive audiences
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs, make explicit decisions, manage architectural risk, and provide pragmatic guidance under delivery constraints
- Proactive, collaborative, structured, outcome-oriented mindset with strong ownership of platform evolution
Full description
Who we are
We are looking for a Platform Architect to lead the modernization and continuous improvement of our platform. The role will define and evolve the target architecture, provide solution guidance to delivery teams, and establish pragmatic standards and reusable patterns aligned with product strategy and operational needs.
The Platform Architect will combine strategic architecture leadership with hands-on support for solution design, technical decision-making, modernization sequencing, and complex problem resolution. The role will ensure that platform evolution improves scalability, resilience, security, maintainability, delivery speed, observability, and cost effectiveness without losing sight of business priorities and delivery constraints.
What you'll be doing
- Assess the current platform architecture, identify structural risks and technical debt, and define a clear target architecture and phased modernization roadmap
- Translate product strategy, business priorities, service expectations, and non-functional requirements into platform architecture principles and actionable engineering direction
- Define reference architectures, reusable patterns, guardrails, decision criteria, and standards for applications, APIs, integrations, data, infrastructure, security, observability, and delivery automation
- Lead architecture and solution-design activities for major platform changes, modernization initiatives, new capabilities, and complex cross-cutting requirements
- Review proposed technical solutions and provide timely, pragmatic guidance that balances strategic alignment, delivery speed, risk, complexity, and total cost of ownership
- Establish and maintain architecture decision records, diagrams, standards, technology radars, and other documentation needed for transparent and repeatable decision-making
- Guide modernization of legacy components, including decomposition, migration, re-platforming, refactoring, integration redesign, and retirement of obsolete capabilities
- Ensure architecture adequately addresses scalability, availability, resilience, performance, security, privacy, observability, supportability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Team Leads, Infrastructure, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Data, Support, and Quality Assurance to align decisions and remove architectural blockers
- Promote cloud-native and platform-engineering practices where they provide measurable value, including containers, Kubernetes, automated delivery, APIs, event-driven integration, and self-service capabilities
- Define lightweight architecture governance that supports delivery teams without creating unnecessary process overhead