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The ideal candidate will drive architecture strategy, governance, and engineering excellence while partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders.\nIn this role, you will\nTranslate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solution architectures.\nLead end-to-end solution design and architecture governance across development, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.\nCollaborate with stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and enterprise solution strategies.\nCreate and maintain architecture artifacts including HLDs, LLDs, Solution Architecture Documents, integration specifications, and UML diagrams.\nEvaluate technologies, identify risks, and recommend best practices that support performance, scalability, security, and reliability goals.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).\nWork model\nRemote (US or Canada)\nWe strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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