Senior Engineer- Technical Architecture

Job Description:

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Position Summary:
This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology enabling development efficiencies providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer Technical Architecture to lead largescale architecture initiatives focused on resiliency scalability reliability and business continuity (BCP/DR). You will define endtoend target architectures drive modernization (rearchitecture and replatforming) to cloudnative microservicesbased solutions and guide multiteam delivery across Kubernetes AWS and Azure. The ideal candidate blends deep handson engineering with architectural leadership navigating governance and risk processes while accelerating business outcomes.

How Youll Work:

• Architecture Artifacts: reference architectures ADRs threat models NFR catalogs runbooks test plans for failover and game days.
• Collaboration: partner with product SRE platform and security to align roadmaps budgets and success metrics.
• Standards & Enablement: define enterprise standards and golden paths; accelerate adoption through templates automation and coaching

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance e.g. pairing code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features including automation for either a single team or multiple teams at the program level
• Conducts research design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management CI/CD and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

Architecture Ownership & Strategy:

- Define target and transition architectures for complex distributed systems with a strong focus on high availability across multiple regions fault tolerance and graceful degradation.

- Lead modernization effortsincluding rearchitecture and replatformingtoward microservices and containerized workloads on EKS and AKS establishing platform guardrails golden paths and reusable patterns.

Enablement: define enterprise standards and golden paths; accelerate adoption through templates automation and coaching.

Architecture Ownership & Strategy:

- Define target and transition architectures for complex distributed systems with a strong focus on high availability across multiple regions fault tolerance and graceful degradation.

- Lead modernization effortsincluding rearchitecture and replatformingtoward microservices and containerized workloads on EKS and AKS establishing platform guardrails golden paths and reusable patterns.

- Translate business objectives into clear nonfunctional requirements and system quality attributes such as RPO/RTO SLO/SLI/SLA capacity latency and MTTR ensuring expectations are properly engineered validated and measured throughout the lifecycle.

Resiliency Reliability & BCP (Never Down):

- Architect and validate comprehensive businesscontinuity and disasterrecovery strategiesincluding activeactive activepassive pilotlight and warm or cold standby modelsalong with automated failover data replication and regionevacuation runbooks.

- Institutionalize resilience practices such as chaos engineering game days faultinjection and failuremode analysis partnering with SRE teams to define and maintain error budgets.

- Drive incidentready architecture by ensuring full observability across logs metrics and traces supported by synthetic monitoring and automated rollback or containment mechanisms.

Cloud Platform & Tooling:

- Design secure scalable foundations across Kubernetesbased platforms and major cloud providers including AWS (VPC ALB/NLB EC2 EKS RDS/Aurora DynamoDB S3 Route 53 KMS) and Azure (VNet App Gateway VMSS AKS Azure SQL Cosmos DB Blob Storage Azure DNS Key Vault).

- Establish standards for container platformsKubernetes Helm Operators OPA admission controls service meshalong with CI/CD practices such as blue/green canary and progressive delivery supported by Terraform IaC and GitOps workflows.

- Promote eventdriven and streaming architectures using Kafka and managed equivalents while shaping API strategy through gateway patterns versioning throttling and modern integration approaches.

- Guide multiteam architecture execution by developing roadmaps decomposing features and sequencing dependencies to optimize throughput and reduce risk.

- Partner with Security Risk and Compliance to ensure securebydesign outcomes while coaching engineering teams building communities of practice and elevating SDLC maturity and engineering excellence.

Cost & Performance:

- Optimize for performance efficiency and sustainability through rightsizing autoscaling caching/CDN capacity planning and FinOps guardrails (cost per transaction workload budgets).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering Science Computer Application or job related field required .
• 5 years of job related experience required .
• Proven leadership of rearchitecture / replatform programs to cloudnative microservices on Kubernetes across AWS and/or Azure.
• Deep expertise in resiliency engineering (HA DR/BCP design RPO/RTO tradeoffs) reliability/SRE practices (SLI/SLO error budgets) and scalability for highthroughput lowlatency systems.
• Handson with container orchestration (EKS/AKS) IaC (Terraform) CI/CD and progressive delivery service mesh distributed caching relational/NoSQL databases messaging/streaming (e.g. Kafka).
• Strong experience establishing observability (OpenTelemetry/ Prometheus/ Grafana) incident management/RCAs and automated resilience testing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication; ability to translate architecture decisions into business value and guide teams through risk/ governance processes.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience designing multiregion activeactive architectures and global routing (Anycast/DNSbased health probes).
• Security architecture depth: identity & access workload identity secrets management (KMS/KeyVault) network segmentation/zerotrust policy as code (OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Background in eventdriven and CQRS/Saga patterns; data replication/ consistency tradeoffs in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering toolchains disaster recovery automation compliance frameworks and regulated environments.
• Exposure to cost optimization/FinOps practices and capacity modeling.
• Relevant certifications (AWS/Azure Architect CKA/CKAD) a plus.

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

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