Platform Architect – Integration & Delivery Bucharest

Platform Architect – Integration & Delivery
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Job Description

Your Responsibilities:   

• Define Platform Architecture Strategy & Roadmap - Set the vision for how the platform evolves, ensuring alignment with business goals and enterprise architectural principles. Define the target solution landscape, manage
  - platform dependencies, and drive roadmap execution; 
• Design Scalable & Secure Architectures - Create robust designs that balance performance, reliability, cost, and security, while meeting business and compliance requirements;
• Select and Govern Technology - Evaluate and choose tools/technologies, establish standards and guardrails, and guide design decisions across squads in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and the Design Council;
• Ensure Operational Excellence - Drive automation, observability, resilience, and performance improvements. Monitor platform KPIs and recommend architecture changes to continuously improve reliability and efficiency;
• Maintain & Evolve Architecture Documentation - Keep architectural artifacts up to date as a single source of truth for stakeholders.  

Required key competencies and qualifications:  

• Technical Architecture Expertise:   
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and best practices.  
• Proficiency in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.  
• Proven experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices, and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).  
• Strong knowledge of API-led connectivity and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.  
• Expertise in Middleware and Integration tools, with
  - on or architectural experience in technologies such as: Mule
  Soft Anypoint Platform, Google Apigee, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), API Gateway, JMS, XML/XSLT, and EDI.  
• Solid experience in
  - native integration and hybrid cloud connectivity.  
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT tools and data integration pipelines.  
• Proficiency in building and managing CI/CD pipelines.  
• Strong scripting and programming skills in technologies such as Java, Java
  Script/Node. js, Python, and Groovy.  
• Strategic & Systems Thinking - Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Skilled at balancing
  - term delivery with
  - term platform sustainability.  
• Governance & Standards - Strong grasp of technology governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Ability to define and enforce architectural guardrails without stifling innovation.  
• Collaboration & Influence - Effective at working across squads, product teams, and enterprise architects. Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and business leaders.  
• Operational Excellence Mindset – Dev
  Ops/SRE experience, particularly in deployment automation, environment configuration, observability, and monitoring. Ability to interpret platform KPIs and drive continuous improvements.  
• Documentation & Knowledge Management - Disciplined in maintaining architecture artifacts in tools like Lean
  IX, Confluence, and Share
  Point.  
• Innovation & Future Readiness - Awareness of emerging technologies (cloud, container orchestration, AI/ML, serverless, edge computing). Capable of running Po
  Cs and evaluating new trends for platform adoption.  

What we offer at METRO. digital?     

• Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment.

At METRO. digital, we promote
- life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of
- organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup.

• People development: when you grow so do we!

We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and
- wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation. . . it´s time to upskill your career.

• Support with individual solutions: we are
  - caring!

We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey.

Want to know more about all our benefits? Discover more here.  

Let´s connect soon. Apply for the role now!    

Position grade within our career framework: Technical Architect Grade 2 (Md9).