Lead Architect (Ref. no. 130565)

Responsible for the conceptual design, architecture and the technical solution using multiple technologies and corresponding vendors. Guarantees realization, implementation and functionality of the developed solution.
The role includes consultancy for potential customer in presales period, analysis of customer demands, conversion of the requirements into a technical specification, evaluation of production costs. Additionally steers the international team of experts in order to deliver solution and to define the SLA’s specifications including the transition and transformation phase to handover solution to support/operational delivery units.
As a "Lead Architect" you understand the latest developments of physical or virtual networks in cloud and container technology. You drive the further development of the network in our OpenStack-based cloud platform in the interest of customers and the OpenSource community.

Key accountabilities:
The Public Cloud Product Unit operates on a national and international level, for medium-sized and large companies. With the new Managed Services Public Cloud, we develop, market and operate agile, cloud-native, forward-looking products and services for the digital world. We see ourselves as innovation drivers and make our customers' business fit for the digital future. Our mission: To be successful in tomorrow, we need to think now about the day after tomorrow - and always together with our customers.

In the Open Telekom Cloud Delivery, we have broken new ground and created an environment in which a completely new type of product based on open source community software is driven forward with the procedures and principles of a community approach. Lean structures, agile and innovative methods and procedures as well as an extremely innovation-driven environment determine our actions.

With this dynamic and agile orientation, we are the anchor point for the Public Cloud business area in the Deutsche Telekom Group.

We are measured by the delivery of innovative solutions from our platforms and we are consistently focused on this goal. Together with our platform partner and other partners from the OpenStack Ecosystem, we are working sustainably on the further development of the platform. Security and quality aspects are incorporated into the development right from the start in order to create a highly innovative and attractive public cloud product based on German and European security and data protection standards.

We are looking for you to join our team: people who are professionals and evangelists with a great deal of enthusiasm for technology and who will master this challenge together with us.


This includes the following tasks:
• You will be involved in the design, operation and further development of OpenStack-based services on the Open Telekom Cloud Platform in the network area in close contact with the manufacturers.
• You do not do a manual task twice, but you consistently automate using common automation frameworks.
• You further develop the physical and virtual network architecture, taking IT security aspects into account.
• You work enthusiastically and hands-on directly on the technology.
• You will work together with specialists from our team and other Deutsche Telekom teams on the technology topics of public cloud, open source and security.
• You are a trustworthy consultant for Public Cloud technology in the area of networks internally and for key customers.
• You will prepare materials for presentations and advise management on technology decisions.
• Act as key technical lead and solve and coordinate activities across related technologies/outside own team, steer international teams as participants on the projects
• Work with vendor on correcting critical product defects. Propose and present the T-Systems interest in the future development of the product
• Develop new concepts and products including roadmaps for the future of the product, covering the applications as well as the technologies in the infrastructure considering market trends

Management scope:
• Serve as point of escalation, review, and approval for architecture issues
• Manage team consisting of internal resources, external suppliers and vendors up to 15 people
• Manage the conception, planning and implementation of the contractually agreed services results
• Lead technical workshop with customer to gather parameters required for migration possible specialization (optional for recruitment reasons)