Develop and maintain a clear, evolving view of enterprise infrastructure, services, and architectural patterns, helping teams understand how systems fit together today and where they are heading.
Crystallize and communicate architectural principles that reflect how the organization builds and operates systems—grounded in real-world practices across teams rather than top-down mandates.
Identify gaps, overlaps, and friction points across the technology landscape, and work with service owners and engineering teams to align opportunities for simplification, consolidation, or new shared capabilities.
Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to build shared understanding of how systems interoperate, helping teams make informed design decisions that support a broader, cohesive architecture.
Translate complex systems into accessible artifacts—diagrams, reference architectures, written guidance, and lightweight standards—that help engineers quickly understand the landscape and make effective choices.
Act as a connector across teams, facilitating conversations that lead to alignment without requiring formal authority; build consensus around direction, tradeoffs, and priorities.
Help identify high-value areas for Builder Enablement investment, creating the foundation for engineers to develop paved paths such as templates, tooling, and reusable components.
Engage with engineering efforts at key moments (e.g., early design, major changes) to provide architectural guidance and ask thoughtful questions, balancing short-term needs with long-term system health.
Evangelize a systems mindset, helping engineers and teams think beyond individual services to how their work contributes to a larger platform.
Mentor engineers and architects across the organization, helping them develop stronger architectural thinking, navigate ambiguity, and make better tradeoffs.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of relevant experience
Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and/or enterprise platforms, with an understanding of how services, infrastructure, and data systems interact at scale
Deep, hands-on experience building software or platform systems in a production environment.
Ability to analyze complex technical landscapes and synthesize them into clear mental models, diagrams, and guidance that others can use
Experience working across multiple teams to build alignment and shared understanding without direct authority
Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between deep technical detail and high-level architectural concepts for a range of audiences
Experience partnering with engineering teams to influence design decisions and improve system consistency over time
Familiarity with modern cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and common architectural patterns in cloud-native and hybrid systems