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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.\nWhat you'll be doing\nAssess the current platform architecture, identify structural risks and technical debt, and define a clear target architecture and phased modernization roadmap\nTranslate product strategy, business priorities, service expectations, and non-functional requirements into platform architecture principles and actionable engineering direction\nDefine reference architectures, reusable patterns, guardrails, decision criteria, and standards for applications, APIs, integrations, data, infrastructure, security, observability, and delivery automation\nLead architecture and solution-design activities for major platform changes, modernization initiatives, new capabilities, and complex cross-cutting requirements \nReview proposed technical solutions and provide timely, pragmatic guidance that balances strategic alignment, delivery speed, risk, complexity, and total cost of ownership\nEstablish and maintain architecture decision records, diagrams, standards, technology radars, and other documentation needed for transparent and repeatable decision-making\nGuide modernization of legacy components, including decomposition, migration, re-platforming, refactoring, integration redesign, and retirement of obsolete capabilities\nEnsure architecture adequately addresses scalability, availability, resilience, performance, security, privacy, observability, supportability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness\nCollaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Team Leads, Infrastructure, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Data, Support, and Quality Assurance to align decisions and remove architectural blockers\nPromote cloud-native and platform-engineering practices where they provide measurable value, including containers, Kubernetes, automated delivery, APIs, event-driven integration, and self-service capabilities\nDefine lightweight architecture governance that supports delivery teams without creating unnecessary process overhead\nEvaluate technologies, frameworks, and platform services through structured analysis and, where appropriate, proofs of concept or limited experiments\nSupport critical incident analysis and recurring-problem resolution when architectural causes or cross-platform dependencies are involved\nMentor Technical Leads and senior engineers, strengthen architecture capability within squads, and promote consistent engineering principles across the platform \nCommunicate architecture direction, trade-offs, decisions, risks, and roadmap implications clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders\nWhat you'll bring along\nStrong expertise in platform, solution, or software architecture for complex enterprise applications and distributed systems\nExperience defining target architectures and modernization 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communicate with international stakeholders \nStrong ability to evaluate trade-offs, make explicit decisions, manage architectural risk, and provide pragmatic guidance under delivery constraints\nProactive, collaborative, structured, and outcome-oriented mindset, with strong ownership of platform evolution and engineering coherence\n\nDocument\n\nWhat’s in it for you\nNew beginnings can be a challenge. We promise a smooth integration and a supportive mentor\nPick your working style: choose from Remote, Hybrid or Office work opportunities\nEarly bird or night owl? Our projects have different working hours to suit your needs\nNobody is born an expert. Sharpen your tech skills with our sponsored certifications, trainings and top e-learning platforms\nWe want you to stay healthy! Enjoy our Private Health Insurance - it’s custom-made for you\nA clear mind is a healthy mind. Attend individual coaching sessions or go one step further by joining our accredited Coaching School\nMake the most of our epic parties or themed events - they’re lovingly designed for our people and their families\nNTT DATA recruiters will never ask job seekers and candidates for payment or banking information during the recruitment process, for any reason. Please remain vigilant of third parties that may try to impersonate NTT DATA recruiters, either in writing or by phone, in an attempt to deceptively obtain personal data or money from you. All email communications from an NTT DATA recruiter will be associated with an @nttdata.com email address. NTT DATA will not use any non-NTT DATA or personal email domains (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) or personal communication channels (WhatsApp, Facebook etc) at any time during the recruitment process. If you suspect any fraudulent activity, please contact us.\nNTT DATA Romania is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants regardless to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.\nNot the job for you? Perhaps you have a friend who would be a perfect fit. Send them this link!\nWhat’s in it for you\nNew beginnings can be a challenge. We promise a smooth integration and a supportive mentor\nPick your working style: choose from Remote, Hybrid or Office work opportunities\nEarly bird or night owl? Our projects have different working hours to suit your needs\nNobody is born an expert. Sharpen your tech skills with our sponsored certifications, trainings and top e-learning platforms\nWe want you to stay healthy! Enjoy our Private Health Insurance - it’s custom-made for you\nA clear mind is a healthy mind. Attend individual coaching sessions or go one step further by joining our accredited Coaching School\nMake the most of our epic parties or themed events - they’re lovingly designed for our people and their families\nMake this the place you grow\nYour unique talent is what matters. NTT DATA Romania is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants regardless to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic.\n\nDocument\n\nThird parties fraudulently posing as NTT DATA recruiters\nNTT DATA recruiters will never ask job seekers and candidates for payment or banking information during the recruitment process, for any reason. Please remain vigilant of third parties that may try to impersonate NTT DATA recruiters, either in writing or by phone, in an attempt to deceptively obtain personal data or money from you. All email communications from an NTT DATA recruiter will be associated with an @nttdata.com email address. 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