Job Description
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 event driven patterns (Kafka) with polyglot persistence
Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA, rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)
Embed security by design (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zero trust) 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 production grade observability; performance/cost optimization
Soft Skills
Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.
Min Relevant Experience
12 18 years overall with 3 5 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