Represents a product family of technical governance bodies
Provides feedback and proposes improvements to architecture governance practices
Guides evaluation of current technology and leads evaluation of new technologies using existing standards and frameworks
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience in Cloud Computing, Microservices, Data Mesh Architectures, Architecture Frameworks and Stakeholder Management
Review and improve modern cloud solution architectures (public cloud, microservices, kafka, no-sql, cockroachdb, datamesh)
Develop an understanding of a portfolio of applications and technical capabilities and capture this knowledge in a standard notation / modelling tool with a view to end to end architecture improvements and identification of reuse opportunities
Evaluate current and new technologies and provide adoption guidance
Provide technical guidance and direction to the business & technical teams
Identify cost optimization opportunities across the application portfolio
When required develop secure, high-quality code and review/debug others' code (primarily JAVA based code)
Serve as a subject matter expert in specific focus areas (e.g. developing for the Public Cloud, Data Mesh, AI/ML)
Be an advocate for firmwide standard frameworks, tools and best practices across the engineering community.
Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect within the team culture.