Agile IT Delivery Lead

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

We are hiring – Agile IT Delivery Lead, a key business and technical leader with end‑to‑end responsibility for managing governance, compliance, and return on investment (ROI) for a delivery segment. The holder of the position is accountable for the organization’s growth, operational excellence, and business outcomes. The ultimate goal of the Agile IT Delivery Lead is to align business needs with the IT development and operational processes of large‑scale IT solutions within international portfolio segments.

 

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Agile IT Delivery Lead owns technical delivery of data product teams is responsible for design and scaling, roadmap prioritization and strategic planning. 

• Act as 'coleader' with business domain owners                                                                                                      

• Analyzing business development and identifying and evaluating potential for optimization in terms of costs, efficiency and effectiveness                                                                                                                                     

• Developing and implementing strategies for efficient steering of entrusted portfolio segment, defining rules, standards and work processes with high-level effect                                                                                             

• Monitoring markets, identifying trends and developing analysis withing the scope of the entrusted segment.                                           

• Steering the operationalization and implementation of strategic business initiatives and programs                                                             

• Managing governance, compliance, and return on investment (ROI) for a delivery segment                                                                                                                                                    

• Accountable for building data products using the unified data platform (not building the platform itself) and leveraging the Unified Data Product Journey to guarantee consistency and quality across domains and segments.

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of domain data products, including design, development, operationalization, evolution, and retirement.

• Define and enforce domain-level data product standards, ensuring compliance with enterprise data governance, interoperability, and quality requirements.

• Accountable for technical delivery (data ingestion, data pipelines, data transformations, APIs, and overall data engineering process) implementation within domain

• Accountable for Operational reliability and stability of domain data products (meeting agreed upon Service Level Objectives per Data Product)                                                                                                                         

• Clear communication of technical decisions, risks, and dependencies to management

• Establishment and continuous improvement of release, operations, quality, and engineering processes                                                   

• Manage domain-level technical debt and architectural evolution, balancing delivery speed with long-term maintainability and scalability.

Requirements:

Focus: Data Product Management & Data Mesh 

1. Technical Requirements 

• Strong expertise in Data Product architecture and domain-oriented data product design. 

• Proven experience building and operating scalable data products on modern cloud-based data platforms. 

• Deep understanding of data engineering practices, including data ingestion, pipelines, transformations, and API-based data access. 

• Ability to ensure operational stability, reliability and quality of data products through SLOs, monitoring, and observability. 

  

2. Functional / Domain Requirements 

• Strong understanding of Data Product Management, including defining product value, consumers, and service levels. 

• Ability to translate business priorities into domain data products aligned with measurable business outcomes. 

• Experience working within federated data operating models and domain-based data ownership. 

• Ability to ensure interoperability, standardization, and reuse of data products across domains. 

• Experience managing cross-domain dependencies and prioritization within a Data Mesh environment. 

3. Leadership & Management Requirements 

• Proven leadership experience managing data engineering and data product teams. 

• Ability to operate as a technical co-leader and strategic partner to business domain owners. 

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to align business priorities and technical delivery. 

• Experience driving cross-domain collaboration in federated data organizations. 

• Ability to build and foster a data product mindset and ownership culture within engineering teams with focus on accountability, and continuous improvement 

 

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

Education:

• Have a A Master’s degree in Information Technologies

Experience:

• Project management - 5  years
• Management of IT environments - 5  years
• Leading large teams - 5  years
• Business Transfromation - 3 years

 

IT Technical Skills:

• General IT overview - Advanced - 5 yeras
• Area of industry specific - Advanced - 5 years
• Software development - Intermediate - 2 years
• Cloudification - Intermediate - 2years

 

Soft skills:

• Presentation, negotiation - Advanced
• Result orientation - Advanced
• Time management - Advanced
• Stakeholder management - Advanced
• Planning skills - Advanced
• Risk management - Advanced

Finance Skills:

• Accounting - Basic

Other skills:

• Continuius Improvement - Advanced
• Concept development - Advanced
• Data analysis, gathering and customer orientation - Advanced

Languages:

• English - Advanced (C1)
• German (advantage) - Upper intermediate (B2)

 

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 candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2 300 € /brutto.

Additional information

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