Software Engineering Senior Expert

Software Architecture

· Define and maintain software architecture principles, standards, and technical guidelines.

· Design scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.

· Review and approve solution architectures and major technical designs.

· Evaluate architectural alternatives and provide technical recommendations based on business and technical requirements.

· Ensure alignment between application architecture, integration architecture, infrastructure, security, and enterprise standards.

· Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions.

· Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt.

· Promote modern software engineering practices, reusable components, and appropriate architectural patterns.

· Support modernization and transformation of legacy applications and platforms.

Technical Team Management and Leadership

· Provide technical leadership and guidance to software engineering teams.

· Mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and software developers.

· Support engineering teams in resolving complex technical and production issues.

· Establish and improve software engineering standards, development practices, and technical governance.

· Review technical designs, implementation approaches, and critical code changes.

· Work with engineering managers and project teams to ensure effective resource utilization and technical delivery.

· Support recruitment, technical assessments, interviews, and evaluation of engineering resources.

· Identify technical skill gaps and recommend training and development plans.

· Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

System Integration

· Design and oversee integrations between internal systems, external platforms, government systems, partners, and third-party services.

· Define appropriate integration patterns, APIs, messaging, events, and data exchange mechanisms.

· Review API specifications, integration contracts, authentication mechanisms, and security requirements.

· Ensure integrations are reliable, scalable, monitored, and properly documented.

· Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve integration challenges.

· Define standards for API management, versioning, error handling, retry mechanisms, logging, and monitoring.

· Ensure integration solutions meet performance, security, and availability requirements.

Vendor Management

· Provide technical oversight for software development and technology vendors.

· Review vendor technical proposals, architectures, designs, and implementation plans.

· Participate in Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), and technical evaluation activities.

· Define technical requirements, evaluation criteria, and acceptance standards for vendors.

· Assess vendor technical resources and participate in technical interviews when required.

· Monitor vendor technical performance, quality, deliverables, and compliance with agreed standards.

· Ensure vendor solutions comply with organizational architecture, security, coding, integration, and operational standards.

· Identify technical risks related to vendor delivery and define appropriate mitigation plans.

· Review technical scope, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.

Release Planning and Delivery

· Participate in product and software release planning.

· Coordinate with product owners, engineering teams, quality assurance, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

· Review release scope, technical dependencies, risks, and readiness.

· Ensure appropriate testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and operational readiness plans are in place.

· Support prioritization of technical initiatives, enhancements, defects, and technical debt.

· Ensure releases follow established software development lifecycle and change management processes.

· Participate in production readiness reviews and major release decisions.

· Support post-release reviews and identify opportunities for improving release quality and reliability.

Technical Governance

· Establish and enforce software engineering standards and best practices.

· Ensure compliance with organizational cybersecurity, data protection, architecture, and software development requirements.

· Participate in technical governance committees and architecture review boards when required.

· Define technical documentation standards.

· Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained for architectures, integrations, APIs, systems, and technical decisions.

· Drive adoption of automated testing, code quality, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and secure development practices.

· Track and manage technical debt across systems and products.

Stakeholder Management

· Work closely with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.

· Collaborate with Product Management to develop technical roadmaps aligned with product priorities.

· Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Provide technical recommendations to management and support technology-related decision making.

· Coordinate across engineering, product, security, infrastructure, data, operations, and external partners.

· Represent Software Engineering in technical discussions with customers, partners, and vendors when required.

Requirements

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or related technical roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms.
• Strong technical leadership experience across engineering teams and complex technical initiatives.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with external vendors, SDLC, release management, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of application security, scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Required Technical Competencies

• Software & Solution Architecture
• Enterprise and Distributed Systems
• System Integration & API Architecture
• Microservices, REST APIs & Event-Driven Architecture
• Database & Data Architecture
• Cloud, Infrastructure & Kubernetes concepts
• CI/CD & DevOps Practices
• Application Security, Performance & Scalability
• Monitoring & Observability
• Automated Testing & Software Quality
• Release & Deployment Management
• Technical Documentation & SDLC

Leadership & Professional Competencies

• Technical Leadership & Team Mentoring
• Strategic Thinking & Decision Making
• Problem Solving & Risk Management
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management
• Communication, Presentation & Negotiation
• Planning, Prioritization & Cross-functional Collaboration

Preferred Experience

• Leading multiple software products, platforms, or technical teams.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise or government platforms.
• Experience with cybersecurity, regulatory, data governance, or compliance requirements.
• Managing technology vendors, outsourced development teams, and technical RFP evaluations.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps environments.
• Leading application modernization, digital transformation, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards.

Key Performance Indicators

• Architecture quality and compliance with technical standards.
• System availability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Reduction of production incidents and technical debt.
• Successful integrations, releases, and deployments.
• Vendor delivery quality and technical compliance.
• Engineering capability and adoption of standards and best practices.
• Delivery of technical roadmap initiatives and stakeholder satisfaction.