Platform Architect- FSD platform Bucharest

Platform Architect- FSD platform
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Job Description

Your Responsibilities:   

• Define Platform 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:  

• Strategic & Systems Thinking - Ability to connect platform evolution with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Skilled at balancing
  - term delivery with
  - term platform sustainability.  
• Technical Architecture Expertise - Deep understanding of
  - native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and microservices. Proficiency in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.  
• 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 - Knowledge of Dev
  Ops/SRE practices, automation, 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.  

This resonates with you? Apply now!    

What we offer at METRO. digital?     

• Flexible and remote work: create your own schedule!    

Flexibility defines the way we work and interact with each other. At METRO. digital, you have the possibility to work remotely and adapt your working hours in a very flexible way.     

• 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!    

Life is full of surprises, full of challenges and we want to support you – whenever YOU need - at an individual level and during every stage of your life.    

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).