• Define and drive the organization's overall technical architecture and technology strategy. • Design scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance enterprise applications. • Establish architectural standards, design principles, and engineering best practices. • Lead architecture reviews and evaluate technology choices for long-term business needs. • Design distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications. • Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. • Guide cloud adoption, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives. • Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve system capabilities. • Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, availability, and performance requirements. • Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and scalability challenges and develop mitigation strategies. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, developers, and engineering teams. • Define integration strategies across enterprise applications, databases, and external platforms. • Oversee proof-of-concept initiatives and validate architectural decisions. • Support capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies. • Communicate architectural decisions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Requirements • Extensive experience in software architecture, system design, and enterprise application development. • Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and API design. • Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. • Strong understanding of programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript. • Experience with databases, data modeling, caching, and message brokers. • Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. • Strong understanding of cybersecurity, identity management, and application security. • Experience with system performance optimization, scalability, and high availability. • Familiarity with architecture patterns, design principles, and enterprise integration. • Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.