Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams Review technical specification documents, provide feedback, and collaborate for best in class solution Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse Be actively involved in code/design reviews and expected to code 80% of the time. Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable subscription platform Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must Strong experience in designing and leading the implementation of highly complex transactional systems, collaborating with teams across the organization Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology Strong passion & expertise with automation, including building and adopting CI/CD pipelines Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus, and the ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy, and scale applications across multiple cloud environments Experience integrating with various streaming and subscription platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung is a plus.