Senior Technical Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Technical Leadership

  : Guide platform engineering best practices, oversee core platform and self-service tool development.

• Strategy & Roadmap

  : Help Define and Execute the platform vision, set priorities, and align initiatives with organizational goals and addressing pain points within the Engineering practice.

• Team Mentorship

  : Mentor and grow engineers; help foster a high-performance, collaborative culture.

• Stakeholder Management

  : Partner with developers and leadership teams to deliver value and drive adoption.

• Operations

  : Ensure platform reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency; drive automation and observability.

• Product Mindset

  : Treat the platform as a productfocus on developer experience, gather feedback, and measure impact (e.g., adoption, DORA metrics).

Preferred candidate profile

• Strong background in DevOps, cloud infrastructure (AWS/ GCP), CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and modern software architecture.
• Deep Expertise with tools such as GitLab, SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, Terraform, Pulumi and Backstage.
• Proven experience helping to build and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
• Product-oriented mindset with ability to define strategy and prioritize features.
• Strong experience with Observability/Telemetry platforms to provide insight into both Infrastructure and Workloads.
• Strong Scripting Experience (Python Preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 10+ years in software/platform engineering, 3+ years in senior/principal roles
• Experience with Microservice Development and Support.
• Experience delivering scalable developer platforms and productivity tools.