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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive expertise in software architecture and engineering, with a focus on high-traffic production systems, security by design, and reliability engineering. Proven ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and shape technology strategy, particularly in cloud-native and AI-driven environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Software Architecture DirectionDevOps ExpertiseSecurity By DesignReliability EngineeringCloud-Native Architecture
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Hard Skills
Software ArchitectureDistributed Systems DesignCI/CDInfrastructure As CodePerformance EngineeringService Oriented ArchitectureEvent-Driven ArchitectureAPI-First Integration DesignArtificial Intelligence ArchitectureLegacy Modernization
Soft Skills
LeadershipInfluencing StakeholdersHigh Emotional IntelligenceCommunication Skills
Tools & Technologies
Cloud PlatformsContainerizationOrchestrationAutomation ToolsMonitoring Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceMaster's Degree in Computer ScienceProfessional-Level Cloud Architect CertificationKubernetes Certification
Industry Keywords
High-Traffic SystemsProduction ScaleSecurity StandardsService Level ObjectivesIncident RecoveryCost Optimization
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set and own software architecture direction for high-traffic, high-volume production platforms
- Remain hands-on in design reviews, prototypes, and critical implementation decisions
- Support cross-team architecture projects through completion while ensuring security, reliability, and maintainability standards
- Chair an architecture review forum and maintain auditable architecture decision records
- Establish and maintain design patterns, service standards, and reference implementations
- Embed security by design into architecture and the development lifecycle
- Set reliability and performance engineering standards, including service level objectives, observability, capacity and load planning, failure-mode analysis, and resilience patterns
- Partner on delivery engineering standards spanning CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, progressive delivery, and release safety
- Lead architectural diagnosis and remediation for significant production incidents
- Own technical debt strategy and sequence remediation into delivery roadmaps
- Guide build-versus-buy and platform selection decisions
- Advise executive leadership on long-term technology direction
- Shape artificial intelligence strategy, including open-source model adoption, build-versus-buy decisions, and research and development investment priorities
- Partner with the Data Architect and infrastructure leaders on data and platform decisions
- Connect architectural decisions to cost, speed, risk, and customer experience
- Lead and develop a small architecture team
- Set team goals, performance standards, architectural competency expectations, and succession plans
- Exercise architecture decision rights across engineering teams
- Mentor architects and senior engineers organization-wide
- Travel for leadership, partner, and vendor meetings, up to 25 percent annually, including occasional overnight travel
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant industry work experience
- Fifteen or more years in software engineering and architecture, including seven or more years architecting systems at production scale
- Hands-on software architecture and design of distributed systems operating at high traffic and high volume in production
- Deep, practitioner-level DevOps expertise across CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and release engineering
- Security by design, including threat modeling, secure development lifecycle, identity and access patterns, encryption, and secrets management
- Reliability and performance engineering at scale: service level objectives, observability, load and capacity planning, failure-mode analysis, and incident recovery
- Service oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, and API-first integration design, including versioning and backward compatibility
- Cloud-native architecture on a major public cloud, including containerization and orchestration
- Working knowledge of infrastructure, networking, and data architecture
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning architecture, including model serving, retrieval patterns, agent guardrails, and open-source model evaluation
- Legacy modernization applied to live systems: monolith decomposition, incremental migration, and strangler patterns
- Engineering cost efficiency, including cloud cost optimization
- Code-level fluency sufficient to review critical designs and implementations credibly
- Experience leading architects or senior engineers, including direct people leadership of a small team
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior engineering and business stakeholders without formal authority
- High emotional intelligence and ability to communicate with technical and business audiences
- Preferred: Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering
- Preferred: Professional-level cloud architect certification (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
- Preferred: Kubernetes certification such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Benefits
Comp & perks- Business travel for leadership, partner, and vendor meetings, up to 25 percent annually
- Occasional overnight travel required