Software Engineering Expert

Role overview

Architecture and technical leadership

• Define architecture principles, standards, and guidelines; design scalable, secure, reliable, maintainable solutions.
• Review solution architectures and technical designs; assess options and ensure alignment across application, integration, infrastructure, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, help resolve complex technical and production issues, and improve engineering standards.
• Support modernization of legacy applications and platforms and promote reusable components and appropriate architectural patterns.

Integration, vendors, and releases

• Design integrations with internal systems, government systems, partners, and third parties; establish API, messaging, event, and data-exchange patterns.
• Oversee integration security, reliability, performance, monitoring, documentation, versioning, and error handling.
• Review vendor proposals, designs, implementation plans, estimates, deliverables, and compliance; participate in RFP, RFI, and technical evaluations.
• Coordinate release planning and readiness across product, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations.
• Ensure testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational readiness plans; participate in release decisions and post-release reviews.

Governance and stakeholders

• Establish engineering and technical documentation standards and promote automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and secure development.
• Translate business needs into technical solutions and roadmaps; advise management and communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate across engineering, product, security, infrastructure, data, operations, partners, customers, 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 delivery of enterprise-scale software platforms and complex technical solutions, with technical leadership across teams and 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.
• 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, software quality, release and deployment management, technical documentation, and SDLC.

Leadership competencies

• Technical leadership and mentoring; strategic and analytical thinking; problem solving and technical decision-making.
• Technical risk management; vendor and stakeholder management; communication, presentation, negotiation, planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred experience

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

Performance focus