Software Engineering Expert

Software architecture

• Define and maintain software architecture principles, standards, and technical guidelines.
• Design scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software solutions; review and approve solution architectures and major technical designs.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and align application, integration, infrastructure, security, and enterprise standards.
• Lead design reviews, manage technical risks and dependencies, address technical debt, and support legacy modernization.

Technical leadership and integration

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to software engineering teams; mentor engineers, technical leads, and developers.
• Help teams resolve complex technical and production issues and establish engineering standards, development practices, and governance.
• Support recruitment, technical assessments and interviews, skills-gap reviews, training plans, and knowledge sharing.
• Design and oversee integrations with internal systems, external platforms, government systems, partners, and third-party services.
• Define integration patterns and standards for APIs, messaging, events, data exchange, versioning, error handling, logging, and monitoring.

Vendor oversight

• Review vendor proposals, architectures, designs, implementation plans, technical resources, and delivery quality.
• Participate in RFP, RFI, and technical evaluations; define technical requirements, evaluation criteria, and acceptance standards.
• Monitor vendor deliverables and compliance, manage technical risks and mitigations, and review scope, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and changes.

Release planning 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 are in place.
• Support technical prioritization, production-readiness decisions, and post-release reviews.
• Enforce engineering, cybersecurity, data protection, architecture, documentation, SDLC, and change-management standards.
• Drive automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, secure development, and technical-debt management.

Stakeholder management

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and collaborate with Product Management on aligned technical roadmaps.
• Communicate complex technical topics and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate across engineering, product, security, infrastructure, data, operations, and external partners.
• Represent Software Engineering in technical discussions with customers, partners, and vendors when required.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least six years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong technical leadership across engineering teams and complex initiatives.
• Expertise in software architecture, system design, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with external 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.
• Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, database and data architecture.
• Cloud, infrastructure, Kubernetes concepts, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Application security, performance, scalability, monitoring, and observability.
• Automated testing, software quality, release and deployment management, technical documentation, and SDLC.

Preferred experience

• Leading multiple software products, platforms, or technical teams; large-scale enterprise or government platforms.
• Cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, or compliance requirements.
• Technology vendors, outsourced development teams, and technical RFP evaluations.
• Cloud-native platforms, containers, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps environments.
• Application modernization, digital transformation, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards.

Performance measures