AI SDLC Lead Engineer (Cloud Architect) (m/f/d)

Role Summary

Purpose

Lead AI-assisted software engineering activities for Meridian by designing repeatable SDLC patterns that help analyse, validate, document, and evolve complex cloud software stacks. The role anchors the engineering approach for OpenStack-derived services, repository-scale understanding, and sovereign software handover readiness.

Role focus

This senior position focuses on turning AI development platforms into disciplined engineering capability. The candidate should guide how coding agents, open-source or open-weight coding models, and enterprise-approved toolchains are used to accelerate code understanding, refactoring support, documentation, and transition readiness without weakening evidence quality or confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead AI-assisted SDLC patterns for repository intake, code exploration, service mapping, build diagnosis, documentation, and engineering evidence generation.
• Guide analysis of OpenStack-derived control-plane services, APIs, dependencies, integration flows, and build structures across multiple repositories and teams.
• Evaluate and operationalize AI development platforms, coding agents, and approved open-weight or Chinese coding model stacks for secure enterprise use cases.
• Establish human-in-the-loop controls, quality gates, prompt libraries, reusable review patterns, and evidence standards for AI-generated engineering outputs.
• Coach software engineers and platform specialists on safe, effective use of AI tools while coordinating with architecture, security, DevOps, and testing teams.
• Produce senior stakeholder-ready artefacts including transition risks, service decomposition views, codebase maturity observations, and recommended engineering actions.

Examples of market tools, models, and SDLC platforms expected

• AI development environments such as Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Continue, Cline, or VS Code-based extensions connected to enterprise-approved model endpoints.
• Open-source, open-weight, or Chinese coding-capable models such as DeepSeek Coder, Qwen/Qwen-Coder, CodeGeeX, StarCoder, Code Llama, Mistral, or similar models operated through approved controls.
• Agentic and SDLC workflow components such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines, evaluation loops, and structured tool-calling patterns.
• Engineering environments including GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, private package registries, and terminal-native automation workflows.

Requirements

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU HAVE

• 8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or technical architecture roles, with proven ownership of complex engineering workstreams.
• Strong hands-on coding skills in Python plus at least one backend or systems language such as Go, Java, C, C++, or Rust.
• Deep practical experience using AI coding agents and LLM-enabled SDLC workflows for large codebases, technical documentation, and engineering acceleration.
• Good understanding of OpenStack-derived cloud software architectures, modular service decomposition, CI/CD, Kubernetes-based delivery, and platform operations.
• Able to lead senior engineers in ambiguous environments, challenge AI outputs, and convert incomplete evidence into structured, actionable engineering decisions.
• Comfortable working in high-accountability, confidentiality-sensitive enterprise programs where auditability, traceability, and sovereignty constraints are mandatory.
• We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2200€ /brutto.

Benefits

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

• Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

About the Company

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.