Senior Technical Architect: Cloud-Native AI Platform Lead

NTT DATA Europe & Latam; Ro; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Europe & Latam is seeking a Senior/Lead Technical Architect to translate business needs into scalable architectures and solutions. The role focuses on architecture, design reviews, and solution definition with cloud-native expertise across Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.

You will lead a squad, drive governance, and advance AI agent ecosystems, collaborating with product and security stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background, hands-on Python/TypeScript

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong background in architecture and technical leadership.
• Software Architecture: APIs, integrations, NFRs and patterns.
• Full-Stack Development: backend with frontend awareness.
• Knowledge of AI agents, orchestration, MCP and Semantic Kernel.

Responsibilities

• Define target architecture and technical solutions for platform/product, including components and deployments.
• Translate requirements into patterns, standards and technical decisions for engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership to one squad and coordinate with others to resolve dependencies and ensure consistency.
• Establish lightweight governance: architecture reviews, ADRs, guardrails and quality gates.
• Conduct architecture/design reviews and validate proposed solutions.
• Review decisions and guide concrete technical solutions without day-to-day implementation focus.
• Design or evolve cloud-native architectures on Azure using Kubernetes and Docker for resilience and cost control.
• Improve CI/CD practices and delivery lifecycle automation across environments.
• Maintain end-to-end backend/frontend architecture across distributed teams.
• Oversee product capabilities based on AI agents, tool usage and agent harnesses.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture ownership

Cross-team coordination

English proficiency

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Semantic Kernel

LLMOps

Job description

NTT DATA Europe & Latam is seeking a Senior/Lead Technical Architect to translate business needs into scalable architectures and solutions. The role focuses on architecture, design reviews, and solution definition with cloud-native expertise across Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.

You will lead a squad, drive governance, and advance AI agent ecosystems, collaborating with product and security stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background, hands-on Python/TypeScript