Architect

Luxoft; Kraków; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Dental care

Life insurance

Internal mobility

Rotation opportunities

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Senior CTO Architect to join a small London-based team with Pune support. You will define and govern architectural standards, aligning IB and group strategy, while coordinating across governance crews and CTO groups. The role emphasizes pragmatic AI-assisted tooling and modern cloud practices.

The ideal candidate brings deep Java development experience, strong communication, and a proven ability to work across distributed teams while staying current with technology trends.

Qualifications

• Solid background in development using Java (at least 8 years).
• Proficiency in AI-augmented development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code.
• CI/CD including tools such as Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab etc.
• Containers and container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Microsoft Azure or other major cloud platforms
• Infrastructure-as-code, using tools such as Terraform, ARM, or CloudFormation
• GitLab or similar, contributing to open source projects
• DevOps practices and the value of automation

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, evolve, and communicate architectural standards, guardrails, reference architectures and best practices, aligned with both IB and GCTO strategy.
• Own and run key architectural governance processes within the IB CTO function, ensuring proactive architectural control across the division.
• GCTO point of contact for the Investment Bank, representing IB CTO in group-led initiatives and ensuring clear, relevant communication flows.
• Triage incoming IB and GCTO work, determine impact, and coordinate responses, shielding the core architecture team by absorbing operational, data-gathering, and coordination tasks.
• Support IB engineering teams with early engagement on new initiatives, ensuring architectural considerations are addressed from ideation to delivery

Skills

Java development

AI tools

CI/CD tooling

DevOps

Open source

Distributed teams

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

ARM

CloudFormation

GitLab

Job description

Private Medical & Dental care & Life Insurance covered

Internal Mobility program - possibility of rotation between projects, locations, accounts

…and more!

Project Description

You’ll be joining a small team run from London with support from Pune. Our role is to provide IB technology teams with oversight, support, analysis, and solutions to implement strategic architecture.

Your role

The CTO Architect role sits within the IB CTO Architecture function and provides support across our Governance Crew, wider IB Streams, and interacts with the Group CTO. The role helps ensure the Investment Bank (IB) is aligned with both IB and group-level architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, evolve, and communicate architectural standards, guardrails, reference architectures and best practices, aligned with both IB and GCTO strategy
• Own and run key architectural governance processes within the IB CTO function, ensuring proactive architectural control across the division.
• GCTO point of contact for the Investment Bank, representing IB CTO in group-led initiatives and ensuring clear, relevant communication flows
• Triage incoming IB and GCTO work, determine impact, and coordinate responses, shielding the core architecture team by absorbing operational, data-gathering, and coordination tasks.
• Support IB engineering teams with early engagement on new initiatives, ensuring architectural considerations are addressed from ideation to delivery

You are

• focused on quality
• an excellent communicator
• aware of ongoing technology trends and know how to pragmatically leverage their benefits
• comfortable working independently, as well as in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• fluent in English

Mandatory Skills Description

• Solid background in development using Java (at least 8 years)
• Proficiency in AI-augmented development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code
• CI/CD including tools such as Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab etc.
• Containers and container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Microsoft Azure or other major cloud platforms
• Infrastructure-as-code, using tools such as Terraform, ARM, or CloudFormation
• GitLab or similar, contributing to open source projects
• DevOps practices and the value of automation

Nice-to-Have Skills Description

• Experience working in geographically distributed teams