Software Engineering Senior Expert

Role overview

Architecture and engineering leadership

• Define architecture principles, standards, and guidelines; design scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Review major architectures and designs, assess alternatives, align technology layers, and lead design discussions.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies, and debt; promote modern practices, reusable components, and legacy modernization.
• Guide and mentor engineering teams, support complex issue resolution, improve standards, and participate in recruitment and skills development.

Integration, vendors, and delivery

• Oversee integrations across internal, government, partner, and third-party systems; define API, messaging, event, and data-exchange patterns.
• Set integration standards for security, performance, availability, monitoring, documentation, versioning, and error handling.
• Review vendor proposals, designs, plans, estimates, and deliverables; participate in RFP/RFI evaluations and manage delivery risks.
• Coordinate release planning and readiness across product, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations.
• Support testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, operational readiness, release reviews, and lifecycle processes.

Governance and stakeholders

• Set software engineering and documentation standards; support cybersecurity, data protection, architecture, and development compliance.
• Drive automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and management of technical debt.
• Translate business needs into technical solutions and roadmaps; communicate recommendations 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 and 8+ years in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles.
• Proven delivery of enterprise-scale software platforms and technical leadership across engineering teams and complex 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.
• Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, database and data architecture, and cloud, infrastructure, and Kubernetes concepts.
• CI/CD, DevOps, application security, performance, scalability, monitoring, observability, automated testing, and software quality.
• Release and deployment management, technical documentation, and SDLC.

Preferred experience

• Experience leading multiple software products, platforms, or technical teams and working with large-scale enterprise or government platforms is preferred.
• Experience with cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, compliance, vendors, outsourced development, or technical RFP evaluations is preferred.
• Cloud-native, containers, Kubernetes, modern DevOps, modernization, digital transformation, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards experience is preferred.

Performance measures