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engineering standards, integration strategies, platform engineering capabilities, reusable technology frameworks, and architecture governance that enable secure, scalable, resilient, high-performing, and AI-ready software solutions.\nAs one of Fortrea's senior technical leaders, the Sr. Technical Architect partners closely with Product Management, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, Security, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure technology investments align with business priorities while accelerating innovation and long-term platform evolution.\nThe Sr. Technical Architect serves as a trusted technical advisor by driving modernization initiatives, enabling AI-powered software development, providing technical guidance to projectteamsand less-experienced colleagues, supportingengineering standards, and promoting engineering excellence across the Global Digital Foundry.\nHybrid Role in Warsaw.\nSummary of Responsibilities:\nSupport long-term solution architecture strategy, technology roadmaps, architecture principles, and technical standards across Fortrea's digital products and platforms.\nSupport enterprise architecture standards, reusable design patterns, reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), engineering guardrails, and governance processes that promote consistency, scalability, maintainability, and reuse.\nSupport cloud-native architecture patterns utilizing Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, containers, serverless computing, API-first design, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and modern software engineering practices.\nSupport solution architecture for digital products, SaaS platforms, APIs, integrations, mobile applications, cloud services, and shared engineering platforms.\nDefine enterprise AI architecture patterns supporting Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), vector databases, prompt orchestration, intelligent automation, and Responsible AI.\nPartner with Data & AI teams to define reusable AI platform capabilities, enterprise AI governance, model integration strategies, and AI engineering standards.\nDrive architecture modernization initiatives including cloud migration, platform engineering, application modernization, technical debt reduction, API modernization, microservices adoption, and platform consolidation.\nDesign reusable engineering platforms, shared services, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), developer enablement capabilities, and engineering accelerators that improve developer productivity.\nDefine enterprise integration strategies including API Management, event streaming, messaging, asynchronous architectures, interoperability frameworks, FHIR/HL7 integration (where applicable), and secure service communication.\nEstablish enterprise data architecture principles supporting Microsoft Fabric, cloud data platforms, analytics, data products, streaming architectures, governance, and enterprise data interoperability.\nLead architecture reviews, technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, design workshops, technology evaluations, and solution design activities.\nPartner with Product Engineering leadership to ensure architecture aligns with customer needs, business priorities, product roadmaps, and engineering execution.\nDefine architecture standards for security, Zero Trust, identity management, API security, secrets management, software supply chain security, privacy, compliance, resilience, observability, and operational excellence.\nProvide technical guidance to project teams and less-experienced colleagues by promoting software craftsmanship, engineering excellence, AI-assisted development, and architecture best practices.\nBuild and lead Technical Architecture Communities of Practice that promote innovation, collaboration, reusable solutions, mentoring, technical standards, and continuous learning.\nCollaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align solution architecture with enterprise strategy, business capabilities, technology investments, and long-term transformation initiatives.\nContinuously evaluate emerging technologies including AI platforms, cloud services, engineering tools, developer productivity platforms, and software architecture trends that improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes.\nEstablish architecture health metrics including technical debt reduction, architecture compliance, platform adoption, solution reuse, engineering productivity, operational reliability, and modernization progress.\nIdentify architectural risks, technology constraints, operational dependencies, scalability challenges, and recommend mitigation strategies.\nChampion engineering excellence through reusable architecture, documentation standards, engineering best practices, software craftsmanship, and technical governance.\nParticipate in technology strategy, architecture councils, engineering planning, executive technology discussions, and strategic investment decisions.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nQualifications (Minimum Required):\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline. Equivalent experience will be considered.\nDeep expertise in enterprise software architecture, cloud-native application design, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, integration architecture, and modern software engineering practices.\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, containers, Infrastructure as Code, Platform Engineering, and modern application architecture.\nStrong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, API-first design, and enterprise integration strategies.\nStrong understanding of AI platform architecture, intelligent automation, cloud-native AI services, and modern AI engineering principles.\nExpertise designing scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and highly available enterprise technology platforms.\nStrong knowledge of enterprise data architecture, cloud data services, data governance, integration platforms, and analytics ecosystems.\nDeep understanding of Zero Trust, identity management, secure software development lifecycle, privacy, software supply chain security, and regulatory compliance.\nExcellent communication, presentation, technical leadership, executive influence, and stakeholder management skills.\nDemonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and executive leaders without direct management authority.\nExperience (Minimum Required):\n10+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, Platform Engineering, or related engineering disciplines.\n5+ years designing enterprise-scale SaaS platforms, digital products, APIs, cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations.\nDemonstrated success supporting architecture strategies, technology roadmaps, engineering standards, and reusable architectural frameworks.\nExperience designing cloud-native platforms using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, containers, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices.\nExperience designing AI-enabled enterprise solutions using Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent automation, or machine learning services.\nExperience defining enterprise AI architecture, Responsible AI standards, AI governance, model integration strategies, and secure AI software development.\nProven experience establishing API strategies, integration architectures, interoperability standards, messaging platforms, and enterprise integration patterns.\nExperience leading cloud transformation, application modernization, platform engineering, technical debt reduction, and enterprise modernization initiatives.\nExperience partnering with Product Management, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, and executive leadership.\nExperience conducting architecture reviews, technical governance, design reviews, proof-of-concepts, technical assessments, and technology evaluations.\nDemonstrated success balancing customer needs, business priorities, operational requirements, technical constraints, and long-term technology strategy.\nPreferred Qualifications Include:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.\nExperience within healthcare, life sciences, clinical research, digital health, medical devices, or other highly regulated industries.\nExperience designing enterprise AI platforms using Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, Anthropic Claude, Google Vertex AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), vector databases, and intelligent automation.\nExperience implementing Responsible AI architecture, AI governance, model evaluation, prompt engineering, AI security, and enterprise AI platforms.\nExpertise with Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes 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