Software Engineering Senior Expert

Architecture and technical leadership

• Define architecture principles, standards, and guidelines; design scalable, reliable, secure, maintainable software solutions.
• Review and approve architectures and major designs; lead technical reviews and recommend alternatives based on business and technical needs.
• Align application, integration, infrastructure, security, and enterprise standards; manage technical risks, dependencies, and debt.
• Guide and mentor engineering teams; support complex technical and production issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Review designs, implementation approaches, and critical code; support recruitment, assessments, interviews, and training plans.

System integration

• Design and oversee integrations with internal systems, external platforms, government systems, partners, and third-party services.
• Define integration patterns for APIs, messaging, events, and data exchange; review API specifications, contracts, authentication, and security.
• Set practices for API management, versioning, error handling, retries, logging, and monitoring; ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.

Vendor management

• Provide technical oversight for software development and technology vendors; review proposals, architectures, designs, and implementation plans.
• Participate in RFP, RFI, and technical evaluations; define requirements, evaluation criteria, and acceptance standards.
• Assess vendor resources and delivery quality; monitor deliverables, compliance, scope, estimates, dependencies, change requests, and risks.

Release planning and governance

• Coordinate release planning across product owners, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
• Review scope, technical dependencies, risks, and readiness; ensure testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational readiness plans.
• Support prioritization of technical initiatives, enhancements, defects, and debt; participate in production readiness, release decisions, and post-release reviews.
• 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 aligned technical roadmaps.
• Communicate complex technical topics and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders and management.
• 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 8 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 technical initiatives.
• Strong 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 and leadership competencies

• Software and solution architecture; enterprise and distributed systems; system integration and API architecture.
• 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 include mentoring, strategic thinking, problem-solving, risk management, vendor and stakeholder management, communication, planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred experience

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

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