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AI Software Development Lifecycle Lead Engineer - T Cloud Public
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Budapest, Hungary
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is looking for a lead engineer to head AI-assisted software engineering activities for the Meridian project. The goal is to turn AI development platforms into a disciplined engineering capability for analysing, documenting and handing over OpenStack-derived services.
Responsibilities
- ▹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
Requirements
- ▹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
Soft skills
Leadership and coachingCritical thinkingHandling ambiguityOwnership
What we offer
- ▹Remote work is only possible from within Hungary due to European taxation regulations
About the company
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group with more than 5300 employees and hundreds of large customers in Germany and other European countries. It operates in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged, and was named Hungary's most attractive employer in 2025 by a representative Randstad survey.
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