The position also recommends new technologies, integration approaches, and processes for complex distributed systems, ensuring that solution designs and implementations meet mission needs and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, scalability, maintainability, and reliability. Design, implement, and integrate software and infrastructure components consistent with approved architecture patterns, such as microservices, event-driven, API-centric, and cloud-native approaches, to ensure interoperability, scalability, and security across applications and services.