Chief Software Engineering Architect

Job Title: Chief Software Engineering Architect

This is a senior leadership role that requires a highly skilled and experienced software engineer to drive the technical strategy and architecture of our organization. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting large-scale, distributed systems and ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Define and drive the overall technical strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals while accelerating innovation and time to market.
• Architect, design, and code highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and transaction processing platforms.
• Lead the adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI to boost developer productivity by 10X, leveraging these technologies to build innovative business solutions and products.
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, including CI/CD automation and DevOps, to improve efficiency and quality across the SSDLC.
• Oversee cloud migration and optimization on AWS, Azure, or GCP to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and secure.
• Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks, automation tools, and proof-of-concepts to validate emerging ideas and technologies.
• Provide technology leadership and motivate high-performing engineering teams, setting clear priorities to achieve product and technology KPIs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, privacy, governance, and business partners to deliver compliant, scalable, and reliable solutions that meet all non-functional requirements.
• Communicate technical strategy and engineering solutions effectively to diverse stakeholders, including executives and business units.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning through brown bags, tech talks, and one-on-one sessions.
• Implement rigorous application development, testing, deployment, and monitoring practices to uphold architectural excellence and reliability standards.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong background in architecting large-scale, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, or GoLang, and frameworks such as Spring, React.
• Experience with RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of API security, data encryption, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Experience in building secure applications and implementing security-first practices.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MSSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with distributed caching technologies like Redis.
• Familiarity with integrating AI solutions into existing platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated ability to automate SSDLC phases to improve efficiency and quality.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks, code quality tools, and delivery pipelines.
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns and best practices.
• Ability to balance short-term and long-term technological decisions aligned with business goals.
• Experience in designing and maintaining highly available, reliable, active-active critical systems.
• Willingness to contribute directly to codebases and develop to validate new ideas and integrate beneficial emerging technologies.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience