Platform Engineering Lead (f/m/d) @ A1 Competence Delivery Center

Strength. Care. Growth

A1 Competence Delivery Center is a vital component of A1’s telecommunications business. Acting as an expertise hub, CDC is dedicated to delivering a full range of high-quality IT, network, financial and other services to support A1’s operations across all OpCos, independent of location.

Using the power of being OneGroup and leveraging synergies, CDC enables transparency of resources, key skills and knowledge expansion and personal career growth opportunities’ enhancement, paired with job stability.

You will know we are the right place for you, if you are driven by:

• Opportunities to learn and build your career.
• Meaningful work in a stable and fast-paced company.
• Diversity of people, projects, and platforms.
• A supportive, fun, and inspiring place to work.

Would you like to join us?

Job Purpose:

This role acts as the central technical owner for the AI platform rollout, ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with group-wide architecture principles. The Platform Engineering Lead defines how AI capabilities are industrialized across OpCos, balancing innovation with operational stability, compliance, and long-term maintainability.

The role provides technical direction for platform evolution, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and ensures that reusable patterns, templates, and standards are established to accelerate adoption across business units. A key success factor is the ability to translate strategic AI ambitions into a robust technical foundation that enables fast, safe, and consistent delivery of AI solutions.

Role insights:

• Define group-wide platform roadmap, architecture and technical standards.
• Own platform security, access controls, and integrations.
• Manage platform deployments and operational readiness.
• Coordinate with infrastructure (cloud and onprem),Telephony, security, and data teams.
• Have stronger decision on federated API, MCP standrards and utilisation.
• Support scaling AI solutions across business units.
• Align prioritization list of demands form business units and manage stakeholders expectations.
• Coordinate security and compliance approvals.
• Primary counterpart to external vendors.
• Act as escalation point for complex technical, security, or integration decisions.

What makes you unique:

• 5+ years in software engineering, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or enterprise platforms.
• Azure, DevOps, security, and integration experience.
• Strong LLM, RAG, context/harness engineering skills.
• Strong skills in Agentic AI principles.
• Strong understanding of technology landscape.
• Excellent technical leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.

Our gratitude for the job done will be eternal, but we’ll also offer you:

• Innovative technologies and platforms to work with; 
• Modern working environment for your comfort; 
• Friendly, ambitious, and motivated teammates to support each other; 
• Thousands of online and in-person learning opportunities to grow;  
• Challenging assignments and career development opportunities in multinational environment; 
• Attractive remuneration package; 
• Flexible working schedule and opportunity for home office; 
• Numerous additional goodies, including, but not limited to free A1 services, discounts, health insurance and services, sports center, childcare, team and family events, etc. 

If you have any questions,  please do not hesitate to contact Silviya Kamenarova.