IT Architect, Czech based
Prague - Czech Republic
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced IT Architect to join long-term enterprise IT initiatives for a major public-sector organization in the Czech Republic. The role focuses on enterprise architecture design integration strategy modern architectural patterns and collaboration with development and infrastructure teams in a large-scale environment.
Details:
Contract type: B2B
Workload: Full-time
Duration: Long-term (12 months)
Location: Prague Czech Republic (occasional office visits)
Language: English Czech or Slovak (B2 level)
Responsibilities:
- Design and define enterprise and solution architecture for complex IT systems
- Define architectural standards and guidelines for microservices and distributed systems
- Design integration patterns (synchronous and asynchronous communication)
- Work with messaging systems such as Kafka Service Bus or similar
- Contribute to logical data model design and system data architecture
- Collaborate with development teams on architecture implementation
- Create and maintain architecture documentation using ArchiMate and Enterprise Architect
- Support containerization and orchestration strategies (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift)
- Ensure architectural alignment with business and technical requirements
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of experience as an IT Architect within the last 5 years
- Strong knowledge of modern architectural approaches (microservices event-driven architecture DDD CQRS)
- Proven experience with system integrations and messaging platforms
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools (Docker Kubernetes or similar)
- Experience designing logical data models
- Knowledge of ArchiMate modeling language
- Experience working with Enterprise Architect tool
- TOGAF certification (minimum Level 1)
- Strong analytical thinking and structured approach
- Ability to communicate effectively in Czech or Slovak at B2 level or higher
Key Skills
- IT Experience
- Apache Hive
- APIs
- Spring
- .NET
- Solution Architecture
- J2EE
- Java
- Microservices
- Azure
- Project Implementation
- Oracle