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You will establish technical direction, guide strategic investments, and create reusable capabilities that improve product delivery, developer experience, and operational excellence.\nYou will influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams through expertise, collaboration, and clear communication.\nWhat You'll Do\nDefine the Platform Vision\nOwn the architecture, vision, principles, and long-term technology roadmap for the Forge Platform.\nDevelop reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable consistency and scale.\nDrive cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based architectural approaches.\nAlign platform evolution with product priorities, business outcomes, and enterprise technology strategy.\nLead Technical Direction and Governance\nServe as the principal technical authority for platform architecture decisions and complex design challenges.\nLead architecture reviews and establish pragmatic governance, standards, and engineering guardrails.\nGuide teams on scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and technical debt.\nDrive architectural consistency and reuse across products, services, and engineering teams.\nAdvance Cloud and Platform Engineering\nDefine patterns for cloud-native development, deployment, and operations across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid environments.\nShape architecture for Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.\nEnable secure, highly available platform services, APIs, identity capabilities, and self-service developer experiences.\nEstablish approaches for reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness at scale.\nDrive Innovation and Organizational Influence\nEvaluate emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept for strategic platform investments.\nAdvance capabilities in AI/ML enablement, data integration, analytics, automation, and intelligent services.\nPartner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams.\nCommunicate architecture strategy, tradeoffs, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.\nMentor architects, principal engineers, technical leads, and senior engineers.\nMust Haves\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.\n12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture roles.\n5+ years of proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms. \n7+ years of expertise in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns. \n3+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP. \nWe Value\nMaster's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience building or scaling an internal developer platform, SaaS platform, or enterprise digital platform.\nExperience with AI/ML platforms, data ecosystems, or advanced analytics capabilities.\nExpertise in security architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, and enterprise architecture governance.\nExperience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability.\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.\nExcellent communication, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.\nRelevant cloud or architecture certifications.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nA clear, actionable Forge Platform architecture roadmap aligned with business and product priorities.\nBroader adoption of reusable platform services, standards, and architectural patterns.\nImproved platform reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational efficiency.\nFaster product delivery and a simpler, more productive developer experience.\nStrong architectural alignment across engineering organizations without unnecessary process overhead.\nWhy Join Us?\nThis is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation of the Forge Platform and influence technology strategy at an enterprise scale. Your work will help engineering teams innovate faster, build more consistently, and deliver greater value to customers.\nAbout Honeywell\nHoneywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. https://www.honeywell.com/us/en\nHoneywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants for employment with Honeywell will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and pregnancy) disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Learn more\nBenefits of Working for Honeywell\nIn addition to a performance-driven salary, cutting-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. 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