Architect​/Tech Lead

As an Architect and Tech Lead
, it will be your job toanalyse the technical needs of the project in cooperation with Business Analysts, and design the necessary infrastructure, incorporating all the latest technologies and practices. As the team grows, you will play akey role in the team building the platform and in delivering features for our customer.

You will be the right-hand of the Product Owner, helping them to understand the technical implications of often complicated requirements, additional technologies and skills required torealise them. You will play akey role in presenting these tothe engineering team and work with them todesign technical solutions.

The ideal candidate will have arich technical background in multiple web-based technologies having worked on avariety of projects presenting diverse technical challenges. They will also be highly creative with astrong commitment to teamwork and collaboration.

We are not looking for someone who necessarily always has the best ideas, but rather acompassionate leader who can work with the team tocome up with the best ideas together.

At Commerzbank, we have just embarked on an ambitious project torewrite the entire platform upon which our mobile and online banking services are built. As one of the leading banks in Europe, anew technology platform is needed tokeep ahead of the competition as our millions of customers demand more features and more data delivered in real-time totheir fingertips. For this massive and highly complex project of critical importance, we are looking for top class people todeliver Europe’s best banking experience.

To deliver this new project, we are building anew team here in Prague, starting with acore group of Business Analysts and Architects tolay the foundations of the project. Over the course of 2026, the team will grow toinclude frontend and backend developers working on core infrastructure and delivering key features.

Given the high-profile of the application, this new team has ahuge responsibility, making this an intensive, exciting and truly unique opportunity toexpand and develop your organizational skills and international experience.

• Lead development of the project’s strategical technical direction
• Design and develop the project’s architecture through creation of POCs
• Lead discussions with the development team on technical analyses of requirements
• Set and maintain technical standards for database schemas, APIs, code style and quality
• Work with the development team to implement requirements
• Work closely with the PO to manage technical considerations in planning
• Work together with the Technical Product Manager tocreate CICD processes, test automation and development infrastructure.
• Ensure scalability and responsiveness of the application through development of appropriate design choices
• Collaborate with teams throughout the bank to understand APIs, data lineage and delivery.
• Ability to mentor junior colleagues and foster aculture of sharing ideas through discussions and demonstrations
• Assist in production issue triaging and resolution.

Technical:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• At least 10 years’ experience in IT
• Business/banking knowledge and understanding of corporate banking and related IT & business processes is an advantage
• Dev Ops experience
• Deep Java understanding, including experience with Spring Boot
• Exceptional SQL skills
• RESTful API design
• noSQL databases and distributed caching systems
• Scaling, high availability and disaster recovery
• Test automation
• Kafka
• Docker/Open Shift
• System and solution architecture
• CICD pipelines including experience in designing and implementing them

Other skills and experience:

• High analytical thinking with attention todetails and problem-solving attitude.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Good team player with high ability towork in international teams.
• Previous experience working in an agile environment.
• Fluency in English – both written and spoken as you will be in daily contact with native and non-native speakers.

In Commerzbank Digital Technology Centre Prague, we are transforming a traditional bank into a digital agile enterprise! We provide a wide range of various IT solutions, .Net and Java development, services in the area of application operation and infrastructure. As a part of Commerzbank Group, we work closely together with the Delivery Organisation of more than 50 different Clusters in our Headquarter in Frankfurt and around the globe.

We are looking for thinkers with unconventional ideas and in return, we offer the freedom to create own job with own vision, wide range of benefits including home office. Sounds interesting?

In case of interest, please apply via this jobportal.