Principal Application Architect (Enterprise AI), Digital Payments Platform
- Belgrade
- Cluj-Napoca
- Krakow
- Larnaca
- Lodz
- Lublin
- Remote.Bulgaria
- Remote.Poland
- Riga
- Sofia
- Varna
- Warsaw
- Wroclaw
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Project overview
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Position overview
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise wide application and AI architecture strategy for the platform.
- Establish architecture principles, standards, and operating models across multiple domains and teams.
- Lead architecture governance forums and drive alignment across programmes and portfolios.
- Shape multi year technology and AI roadmaps aligned with business growth and innovation goals.
- Advise executive stakeholders on technology investments, architectural trade offs, and risk considerations.
- Oversee the design of complex, business critical platforms across payments, data, and AI domains.
- Act as the escalation point for significant architectural decisions impacting the enterprise landscape.
- Define and lead enterprise AI architecture including data platforms, model lifecycle management, and intelligent automation.
- Ensure responsible, ethical, and compliant adoption of AI solutions at scale.
- Drive platform based architecture evolution with a strong focus on APIs, shared capabilities, and reuse.
- Embed security, resilience, and data protection into all architectural decisions.
- Communicate architectural vision and strategy clearly to senior and executive stakeholders.
- Build, mentor, and develop an architecture community while promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading architecture for large scale enterprise platforms in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event driven architecture, and platform engineering.
- Strong background in data and AI architecture, including large scale data platforms and machine learning or large language model systems.
- Proven experience defining and operating enterprise architecture standards and governance models.
- Demonstrated experience operating at principal level with responsibility for influencing organisation wide technology decisions.
- Proven ability to lead cross functional and globally distributed teams and to contribute to large transformation programmes.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior and C suite stakeholders.
- Significant experience in fintech, payments, or broader financial services environments.
- Strong understanding of regulatory, compliance, and risk considerations and their impact on architectural decisions.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex architecture concepts to both technical and non technical audiences.
- Strong decision making skills with the ability to balance delivery speed, risk management, and long term value.
Nice to have
- Experience leading enterprise wide AI transformation initiatives.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
- Experience with platform operating models and internal developer platforms.
- Background delivering large scale digital transformation or innovation initiatives.
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