Software Engineering Senior Expert

Software Architecture

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

Technical Leadership and Integration

• Guide and mentor engineering teams, support complex technical and production issues, and improve engineering practices.
• Support technical recruitment, assessments, interviews, skills development, and knowledge sharing.
• Design integrations with internal, government, partner, external, and third-party systems.
• Define API, messaging, event, security, versioning, error-handling, monitoring, and documentation standards.

Vendor Management

• Review vendor proposals, architectures, designs, implementation plans, technical resources, estimates, and change requests.
• Participate in RFP/RFI and technical evaluations; define requirements, evaluation criteria, and acceptance standards.
• Monitor vendor quality, deliverables, compliance, and delivery risks, and define mitigation plans.

Release Planning and Governance

• Coordinate release planning across product, engineering, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations.
• Review release scope, dependencies, risks, and readiness; ensure testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational plans.
• Support technical prioritization, production readiness decisions, post-release reviews, and release quality improvements.
• Enforce engineering, cybersecurity, data protection, architecture, SDLC, change management, documentation, CI/CD, testing, and observability standards.

Stakeholder Management

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and develop roadmaps aligned with product priorities.
• Communicate technical topics and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders; support management decisions.
• Coordinate with 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 enterprise-scale software platform design and delivery experience.
• 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, observability, automated testing, and software quality.
• Release and deployment management, technical documentation, and SDLC.

Leadership Competencies

• Technical leadership and team mentoring; strategic thinking and decision making.
• Problem solving, risk management, vendor and stakeholder management.
• Communication, presentation, negotiation, planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Experience

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

Key Performance Indicators