AI SDLC Lead Engineer (Cloud Architect) (mfd)

Purpose

Lead AI-assisted software engineering activities for Meridian by designing repeatable SDLC patterns that help analyse validate document and evolve complex cloud software stacks. The role anchors the engineering approach for OpenStack-derived services repository-scale understanding and sovereign software handover readiness.
Role focus
This senior position focuses on turning AI development platforms into disciplined engineering capability. The candidate should guide how coding agents open-source or open-weight coding models and enterprise-approved toolchains are used to accelerate code understanding refactoring support documentation and transition readiness without weakening evidence quality or confidentiality.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

• Define and lead AI-assisted SDLC patterns for repository intake code exploration service mapping build diagnosis documentation and engineering evidence generation.
• Guide analysis of OpenStack-derived control-plane services APIs dependencies integration flows and build structures across multiple repositories and teams.
• Evaluate and operationalize AI development platforms coding agents and approved open-weight or Chinese coding model stacks for secure enterprise use cases.
• Establish human-in-the-loop controls quality gates prompt libraries reusable review patterns and evidence standards for AI-generated engineering outputs.
• Coach software engineers and platform specialists on safe effective use of AI tools while coordinating with architecture security DevOps and testing teams.
• Produce senior stakeholder-ready artefacts including transition risks service decomposition views codebase maturity observations and recommended engineering actions.
  Examples of market tools models and SDLC platforms expected
• AI development environments such as Cursor Windsurf Claude Code Continue Cline or VS Code-based extensions connected to enterprise-approved model endpoints.
• Open-source open-weight or Chinese coding-capable models such as DeepSeek Coder Qwen/Qwen-Coder CodeGeeX StarCoder Code Llama Mistral or similar models operated through approved controls.
• Agentic and SDLC workflow components such as LangGraph OpenAI Agents SDK AutoGen LlamaIndex RAG pipelines evaluation loops and structured tool-calling patterns.
• Engineering environments including GitHub Enterprise GitLab Jenkins ArgoCD Helm Docker Kubernetes private package registries and terminal-native automation workflows.

Qualifications :

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU HAVE:

• 8 years in software engineering platform engineering or technical architecture roles with proven ownership of complex engineering workstreams.
• Strong hands-on coding skills in Python plus at least one backend or systems language such as Go Java C C or Rust.
• Deep practical experience using AI coding agents and LLM-enabled SDLC workflows for large codebases technical documentation and engineering acceleration.
• Good understanding of OpenStack-derived cloud software architectures modular service decomposition CI/CD Kubernetes-based delivery and platform operations.
• Able to lead senior engineers in ambiguous environments challenge AI outputs and convert incomplete evidence into structured actionable engineering decisions.
• Comfortable working in high-accountability confidentiality-sensitive enterprise programs where auditability traceability and sovereignty constraints are mandatory.

Additional Information :

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work career growth private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2200 /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time