20 hours ago
Remote, Ukraine or Kyiv, UkraineStaff+
Responsibilities
- Formulate and drive technical architecture strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, and governance frameworks.
- Lead emerging-technology research, R&D initiatives, prototyping, and production adoption.
- Develop engineering skills, best practices, and continuous-improvement programs across cross-functional organizations.
- Oversee centralized internal libraries, common components, shared services, SDKs, and developer-facing platform tooling.
- Design and standardize deployment patterns, pipeline automation, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native operational architectures.
- Mentor engineering teams and bridge business and engineering priorities with senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Senior or executive-level architectural leadership experience in high-scale enterprise environments, preferably fintech or payments.
- Deep expertise in enterprise software design, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
- Experience establishing technology governance frameworks and engineering quality standards.
- Hands-on experience leading R&D, prototyping emerging technologies, and moving innovations into production.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams and elevate collective technical capabilities.
- Extensive experience building reusable core libraries, SDKs, and developer-facing platform tooling.
- Mastery of modern deployment strategies, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, and high-availability architectures.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and strategic visioning skills.
Benefits
- Full-time role based in Ukraine with the choice to work remotely or from an office.
- Internal events, meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Internal mobility and opportunities to work on large-scale, globally impactful projects.
- Company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial and legal consultations.
- Friendly, collaborative community with an open-door environment.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Ciklum
Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.