Lead Platform Architect

About the Position

We are seeking a Lead Platform Architect who wants to shape our engineering ecosystem by building scalable platform capabilities and driving architectural excellence across product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the platform architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across the organization.
• Lead and coordinate the Platform Engineering team, ensuring delivery of scalable platform capabilities and measurable impact.
• Design and establish cloud-native platform standards across AWS, including Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and deployment patterns.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, GitOps, and developer self-service capabilities to improve software delivery efficiency.
• Provide architectural guidance to product teams on distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and platform integration.
• Establish observability, reliability, and security-by-design principles across the technology landscape.
• Act as a technical leader and advisor, aligning engineering practices with business goals while fostering a culture of automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Completed university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable field.
• Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or architecture roles within complex environments.
• Proven track record of leading platform initiatives and influencing multiple engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in AWS, cloud-native architectures, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Deep experience designing and operating Kubernetes platforms and containerized workloads in production.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux), and modern software delivery practices.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, observability, event-driven architectures, and backend technologies (e.g. Java or Node.js), combined with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong communication skills in English and Polish, with readiness to work in a hybrid model in Katowice.

Nice to Have

• Experience with event streaming and integration tools such as Kafka, Debezium, or Kafka Connect.
• Familiarity with Change Data Capture (CDC) and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Experience with feature management and progressive delivery tools such as Unleash.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise or platform enablement organizations.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of 19,000-32,000 PLN per month.
• Motivizer Benefits Platform to choose and manage all your benefits in one place. You receive a budget (550 PLN monthly). You can choose medical care package, meal tickets, sports cards (we have Multisport and on preferential terms, we have membership cards to one of the most popular Gyms), cinema tickets, shop vouchers, discounts and many more.
• Language Courses – you'll have access to a multi-language learning platform enabling you to practice your language skills and learn new ones!
• Regular and systematic further training opportunities - both internally and from external providers. We support your ongoing learning and development.
• Cooperation within an internal community is our everyday reality. We have networking events, coding challenges, and company parties for different occasions.
• Open to Ukrainian candidates.
• Visa Services.

About the Company

Reply Polska is part of a network of highly specialized companies that support leading industrial groups in defining and developing business models to optimize and integrate processes, applications, and devices using new technology and communication paradigms, such as Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Cloud Computing; Digital Communication; Internet of Things; Mobile and Social Networking.

Develop yourself and the digital future – at Reply!