Job Purpose
- Own and evolve product/platform architecture to meet roadmap,SLOs, security, and cost targets; provide architecture governance
Responsibilities Internal
- Define reference architecture, guardrails, golden paths; maintain
C4/UML and ADRs
- Apply DDD, CQRS/Saga, and eventdriven patterns (Kafka) with
polyglot persistence
- Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA,
rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)
- Embed securitybydesign (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zerotrust) and
observability (SLOs, error budgets, tracing/logging/metrics)
- Chair/participate in architecture review councils; ensure standards
compliance and gated releases
Responsibilities Customer/Market
- Maintain external market sense; align product choices to customer
needs and roadmap
- Support strategic customer conversations on platform direction
and extensibility
Functional/Technical Competencies
- Deep .NET or Java with adjacent stacks; Azure/AWS managed
services
- Eventing & data: Kafka (partitions, consumer groups, retention),
schema evolution, consistency models
- DevSecOps and productiongrade observability; performance/cost
optimization
Soft Skills
- Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.
Min Relevant Experience
- 1218 years overall with 35 years leading product/platform architecture; shipped at scale.
Key Performance Indicators (examples)
- Architecture compliance 90% and ADR cadence/SLAs met
- SLO attainment; cost within guardrails
- Adoption of reusable assets/patterns across teams
NeST Principles
- Be Customer Focused
- Deliver Results
- Raise Standards
- Dive
Deep
- Disagree, Discuss & Commit
- Invent & Reuse
- Build Trust & Show Integrity
- Collaborate
- Own
- Build Organizational Capability
