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Head of Platform & Architecture defines enterprise architecture and scalable platform engineering strategies, requires a Computer Science/IT Degree and 5+ years in software engineering. Full-time role in Nairobi.\n\nRole Purpose\n\nLead the Architecture & Evolve Platform portfolio: Architecture & API Standards, Evolve Studio, Shared Experience and Quality Assurance. Give product teams clear technical direction, reusable capabilities and objective quality evidence so they can deliver reliably.\n\nWork through the four squad leads. Evolve Engineering owns product domains, including COP and FCP. 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develop skills, succession and clear performance expectations.\n\nMatch commitments to available skills and an approved hiring plan; protect support capacity and escalate unresourced work before committing.\n\nOwn the portfolio roadmap, quarterly outcomes and budget; assess build-versus-buy and explain costs, dependencies and investment trade-offs to the CTO and ExCo.\n\nExperience and Leadership Style\n\n5+ years in software engineering with proven senior architecture or platform leadership experience.\n\nStrong service architecture, API, data-contract and integration skills across large-scale, regulated platforms.\n\nExperience delivering reusable configuration platforms or shared frontend capabilities adopted by multiple teams.\n\nPractical leadership of QA, test automation, regression and performance validation, with clear release-quality evidence.\n\nCloud expertise, secure design judgement and experience working with Security and Platform Operations.\n\nExperience leading teams of 5+ across disciplines, developing leads, managing investment trade-offs and communicating clearly with executives.\n\nHow to Apply\n\nClick here to apply","description_format":"text","description_chars":3738,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T17:47:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":66,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":0.85,"p_active":0.863,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":18,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["seen:18","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/caava-head-of-platform-architecture","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/caava-head-of-platform-architecture.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T10:55:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12823,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":464977},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=464977"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcaava-head-of-platform-architecture"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcaava-head-of-platform-architecture"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcaava-head-of-platform-architecture"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/caava-head-of-platform-architecture\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcaava-head-of-platform-architecture"}]}