Teams at Erste Digital

Coordinate and oversee software releases and deployments, manage change and incident processes, plan and schedule deployments, participate in CAB risk assessments, synchronize release activities across development, support, infrastructure and international partners, and provide occasional on-call release support.

Lead a 32-person Data Platforms department to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable database platform services (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Exadata, MongoDB, Hadoop) across on-prem and AWS. Drive DBRE practices, automation, self-service, operational excellence, and migrate relational workloads toward PostgreSQL while maintaining Oracle stability. Build cross-location collaboration, stakeholder alignment, and measurable platform outcomes.

Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and AI automation using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and Python. Build internal developer platform capabilities and AI-powered solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, vector DBs). Ensure observability, SLO-based reliability, secure secrets handling, incident response, and automation of runbooks. Mentor engineers and drive platform engineering best practices.