Lead Enterprise Architect

We are building a nearshore Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Poland and need a hands‑on Solution / Enterprise Architect to lead it technically from day one. This is a bellwether role: the standard, delivery culture, and reputation of the CoE will be set by whoever holds it. You will personally build — prototypes, reference implementations, production solutions — while leading client conversations, acting as the region’s senior technical authority, and helping win business.

Architect, builder, technical seller, and team‑builder in one. The mandate centres on AI / agentic systems and product engineering.

• First and most visible technical face of the CoE in Poland.
• Sets the engineering practices, architecture principles, and quality bar the centre scales on.
• Turns technical credibility into pipeline and won deals, alongside sales.
• Recruits, mentors, and grows the founding engineering team.
• Represents the CoE externally to build employer brand and attract senior talent.

• Build, not just advise — develop prototypes, reference implementations, and production components; stay close to the code.
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and architecture conversations with clients and prospects.
• Act as senior technical decision‑maker and escalation point across engagements.

• Design enterprise‑scale GenAI and multi‑agent systems end‑to‑end
  : UX, APIs, orchestration, models, infrastructure.
• Architect agentic workflows (planner–executor–evaluator, MCP‑style decomposition, A2A) with RAG, event‑driven, and automation layers.
• Exhibit deep understanding of agent lifecycle governance: registry, versioning, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and cost control (LLMOps / AI‑Ops).
• Design Modular, reusable platforms with AI‑native SDLC ownership; embed AI into core product logic, not as an add‑on.
• Have deep understanding of microservices, API‑first design, Event‑driven architecture (streaming, pub/sub, async and orchestration patterns)
• Have prior experience of cloud‑native delivery — containers / Kubernetes, serverless along with CI/CD toolchain, Dev Sec Ops , and IaC patterns.
• Lead the technical side of pursuits: solution shaping, estimates, proposals, and demos.
• Build client trust that expands engagements.

• Define the hiring bar and interview standards; recruit and mentor the founding team.
• Create architecture governance and reusable assets; align to business capabilities and transformation KPIs.

• Fluent Polish and fluent English — both mandatory.
• Hands‑on builder — prototypes, writes and reviews code, and leads by building.
• Deep AI / agentic expertise — LLMs, RAG, and orchestration frameworks (Lang Chain, Lang Graph, CrewAI, Auto Gen, Semantic Kernel, Temporal or similar); enterprise AI integration.
• Strong product‑engineering background — shipping production software, not only advisory work.
• Hands‑on depth in Azure or GCP — production architecture and delivery, not just certification.
• Client‑facing gravitas; proven technical leadership and mentoring of senior engineers.

• Data platforms — Databricks (Lakehouse, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI) and/or Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Delta. Cloud and/or Databricks certifications.
• Experience standing up a new team, practice, or CoE.
• Regulated industries (finance, healthcare, pharma) and EU / GDPR context.

• ~15+ years in engineering and architecture with recent AI depth — a guide, not a hard filter; the blend of hands‑on AI / product depth and leadership matters more than tenure.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity as the first senior hire in a new region.
• Based in a primary Polish hub — Warsaw or Kraków preferred