Software Engineering Expert

Software architecture

• Define architecture principles, standards, and technical guidelines; design scalable, secure, reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Review solution architectures and major technical designs; lead design discussions and recommend options based on business and technical requirements.
• Align application, integration, infrastructure, security, and enterprise architecture standards; manage technical risks, dependencies, and debt.
• Promote reusable components and modern practices; support modernization of legacy applications and platforms.

Technical leadership

• Guide and mentor engineering teams, senior engineers, technical leads, and developers; help resolve complex technical and production issues.
• Improve engineering standards, development practices, and governance; review designs, implementation approaches, and critical code changes.
• Work with engineering managers and delivery teams on technical readiness and solution quality; support technical assessments and interviews.
• Identify capability gaps, support knowledge sharing, and promote continuous improvement.

Integration and vendor oversight

• Design and oversee integrations with internal systems, external platforms, government systems, partners, and third-party services.
• Define integration patterns, APIs, messaging, events, data exchange, versioning, error handling, retry, logging, and monitoring standards.
• Review API specifications, integration contracts, authentication, and security; ensure integration performance, security, and availability.
• Review vendor proposals, designs, plans, deliverables, quality, compliance, scope, estimates, dependencies, and change requests; participate in RFP and RFI evaluations.

Release and governance

• Coordinate release planning across product, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
• Review release scope, dependencies, risks, and readiness; ensure testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational readiness plans.
• Support prioritization of initiatives, defects, enhancements, and technical debt; participate in production readiness and major release decisions.
• Establish engineering and documentation standards; support compliance and adoption of automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and secure development.

Stakeholder management

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

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, or related technical roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms and complex technical solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across engineering teams, products, and complex technical initiatives.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with external technology vendors, SDLC, release management, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• 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 and event-driven architecture; database and data architecture; cloud, infrastructure, and Kubernetes.
• 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 include mentoring, analytical thinking, problem-solving, technical risk management, stakeholder management, communication, planning, prioritization, and collaboration.

Preferred experience

• Experience leading across multiple software products or platforms, or with large-scale enterprise or government platforms.
• Experience with cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, or compliance requirements; vendor oversight, outsourced teams, or RFP evaluations.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps environments, application modernization, digital transformation, roadmaps, or engineering standards.

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