Director of IT Architecture and Quality Engineering

Your responsibilities

• Takes responsibility for the holistic IT architecture of Orange Polska, including shadow IT, ensuring a coherent, evolvable, and consistent architectural landscape across all domains
• Establishes architecture guardrails and decision frameworks that guide teams in making autonomous decisions, with focused reviews for high-risk or cross-domain changes.
• Coordinates and aligns architecture across domains, ensuring interoperability and consistency while allowing domain teams appropriate flexibility.
• Leads the ‘One IT’ Quality Engineering practices, promoting automation, reliability, and observability across internal and external systems.
• Plans and implements the architectural strategy, including the vision, objectives, and technology development directions for the company.
• Creates and maintains the IT solution architecture, aligning it with long-term business and technology visions.
• Identifies business potential and collaborates with business partners to create innovative architectural solutions.
• Manages IT area architecture and provides substantive oversight of architectural consistency across projects and technology changes.
• Analyses and optimizes technology solutions, including technical debt reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Defines and continuously improves architecture management practices, including project reviews and technology assessments, ensuring consistency while enabling efficient delivery.
• Collaborates with IT units in infrastructure, security, and data areas to ensure integrated and consistent solutions.
• Defines and evolves pragmatic architecture standards and guardrails, enabling teams to reuse platform building blocks and deliver consistently
• Builds and leads an architecture guild, fostering collaboration, pragmatic standards, and knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

Our requirements

• Proven track record of leadership and management at director level in enterprise architecture or a related discipline.
• Experience managing organisational change and driving digital transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture practices, with proven experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems and exposure to telecom environments and/or modern composable, API-first architecture approaches (e.g. TM Forum, MACH Architecture).
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.
• Strong understanding of microservices architectures, API management, and modern integration patterns.
• Expertise in cybersecurity architecture, data architecture, and infrastructure design.
• Knowledge of both legacy system modernisation and modern application development approaches.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, containerisation, DevOps practices, and emerging technology trends.
• Ability to think strategically, manage cross-functional initiatives, and communicate effectively at executive level.
• English & Polish: Fluent

Optional

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks or certifications is a plus, when applied pragmatically in real-world environments.
• Experience establishing or evolving a Design Authority or similar architecture governance model that balances consistency with team autonomy.
• Familiarity with telecommunications-specific architecture patterns and OSS/BSS landscapes.

What we offer

• A senior leadership role in a major IT transformation programme at one of Poland’s largest telecommunications companies.
• Direct reporting line to the CIO, with visibility and influence at the highest levels of the organisation.
• A collaborative, ambitious IT leadership team committed to building a world-class IT organisation.
• Competitive compensation package commensurate with the seniority and scope of the role.

Orange Polska