Shapes and drives the architecture and delivery of high impact software solutions that directly support divisional strategy and results. Applies advanced software engineering, architectural practices, and emerging technologies to design innovative, scalable solutions, while providing cross team technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship. Leads large, complex initiatives of strategic importance, setting technical direction that pioneers new practices and advances strategic goals for the division. Essential Responsibilities • Defines and recommends software architecture and engineering approaches for complex, high impact initiatives within the division, shaping operational plans and technical direction for the area of responsibility. • Pioneers and promotes advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms that are adopted across multiple teams and measurably improve divisional outcomes. • Partners with senior technology leadership, product, and architecture teams to inform technology strategy with deep technical insight, proposing new solution patterns that support strategic goals. • Leads the end to end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions, creating reference implementations that other teams reuse and extend. • Resolves the most challenging technical issues in the domain, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements that elevate divisional engineering practices. • Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers and architects across teams, raising the overall technical bar through hands on design input, code review, and knowledge sharing. • Evaluates emerging technologies and research, building prototypes and novel solution approaches that influence divisional roadmaps and unlock new business or platform capabilities. • Contributes significantly to long term technical roadmaps and investment decisions for the domain through well grounded recommendations, design proposals, and thought leadership. • Technically leads large, complex initiatives of strategic importance as an individual contributor, coordinating work across multiple teams to ensure cohesive, high quality technical outcomes. • Operates with substantial autonomy as a recognized technical leader, balancing innovation with risk and driving engineering decisions that directly impact divisional results. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. • Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in software development and architecture. • Expert proficiency in multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles. • Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, security, testing, and deployment practices. Preferred Qualifications • Professional certifications such as Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) or equivalent. • Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, container orchestration, and DevOps. • Strong familiarity with Agile frameworks, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and enterprise innovation management.