- Architecture & Engineering: Lead architecture and system design for complex digital initiatives across web, mobile, APIs, and backend services, while staying hands-on through coding, code reviews, technical spikes, and proof-of-concepts.
- Technical Standards: Define and promote reusable architecture patterns, APIs, engineering standards, and development practices that improve consistency, quality, and maintainability across teams.
- Performance & Reliability: Drive scalability, performance, resiliency, availability, and production readiness; lead investigation and resolution of complex application and production issues.
- Observability: Establish strong application monitoring and observability practices using Dynatrace or similar tools, covering performance, logging, tracing, alerting, availability, and production diagnostics.
- Technical Problem Solving: Evaluate complex technical options and trade-offs, resolve architectural risks and dependencies, and address technical debt and integration challenges.
- Technical Consulting: Partner with product, engineering, UX, security, infrastructure, and data teams to translate business and customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions and provide expert guidance on key technical decisions.
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Influence engineering teams without direct authority, mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and raise the overall technical capability and engineering quality of the organization.
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience in software engineering, system architecture, and large-scale digital applications.
- Excellent hands-on coding skills with strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot and experience with React and/or Node.js.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native application design.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including application architecture, deployment, resiliency, security, and integration.
- Strong working knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or similar modern data and caching technologies.
- Strong observability and monitoring experience, including Dynatrace or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and make sound technical trade-offs across multiple teams.
- Excellent communication and technical decision-making skills, with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
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