Software Engineering Expert

Architecture and technical leadership

• Define and maintain software architecture principles, standards, and technical guidelines.
• Design scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions; review major architectures and technical designs.
• Evaluate architecture alternatives and align application, integration, infrastructure, and security standards.
• Lead design reviews, manage technical risks and dependencies, and address technical debt.
• Guide and mentor engineering teams; support complex technical and production issue resolution.
• Review designs and critical code changes; support technical recruitment, assessments, and development plans.

Integration and vendors

• Design and oversee integrations with internal systems, external platforms, government systems, partners, and third-party services.
• Define standards for APIs, messaging, events, data exchange, security, versioning, error handling, logging, and monitoring.
• Oversee vendor technical proposals, architectures, plans, evaluations, delivery quality, and compliance.

Releases and governance

• Coordinate release planning with product, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
• Review release scope, dependencies, risks, and readiness; ensure testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational plans.
• Establish engineering and documentation standards; promote automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, and secure development.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data protection, architecture, and software development requirements.
• Work with business and product stakeholders on technical solutions, roadmaps, recommendations, and decisions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong technical leadership across engineering teams and complex technical initiatives.
• Expertise in software architecture, system design, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with vendors, SDLC, release management, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of application security, scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Technical competencies

• Software and solution architecture; enterprise and distributed systems.
• System integration and API architecture, including microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• Database and data architecture; cloud, infrastructure, and Kubernetes concepts.
• CI/CD and DevOps; application security, performance, and scalability.
• Monitoring and observability; automated testing and software quality.
• Release and deployment management; technical documentation and SDLC.

Leadership competencies

• Technical leadership, team mentoring, strategic thinking, and decision making.
• Problem solving, risk management, vendor and stakeholder management.
• Communication, presentation, negotiation, planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred experience

• Leading multiple software products, platforms, or technical teams; working with large-scale enterprise or government platforms.
• Cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, or compliance experience; managing vendors, outsourced teams, or technical RFP evaluations.
• Cloud-native platforms, containers, Kubernetes, modern DevOps, application modernization, digital transformation, technical roadmaps, or engineering standards.

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