Software Architect

Luxoft Poland; Kraków; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Dental care

Life insurance

MyBenefit program

Internal mobility

Job summary

Luxoft Poland is seeking a senior architect to lead architectural governance for IB CTO, driving standards and reference architectures across IB and GCTO. You will triage work, coordinate responses, and support engineering teams from ideation through delivery.

You will collaborate with a London-led team and Pune support, working on modern cloud-based architectures and DevOps practices in a distributed environment.

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.
• Experience working in geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, evolve, and communicate architectural standards, guardrails, reference architectures and best practices aligned with 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-assisted development

CI/CD tooling

Docker & Kubernetes

Azure / Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

GitLab / OSS

DevOps automation

Distributed teams

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

Job description

Private Medical & Dental care & Life Insurance (covered by us on Employment contract )

MyBenefit program (sports card, well-being program etc.) (covered by us on Employment contract )

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

and many more!

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

• 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

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


• Experience working in geographically distributed teams