Github Architect

A GitHub Architect is a senior technical expert
responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise -grade
development workflows, repository structures, and CI/CD pipelines on the GitHub
platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Design: Architect scalable, enterprise -grade GitHub
  organizations and repository structures matching business and security
  needs.
  
• Governance Strategy: Create policies for access control, branch
  protection, repository lifecycle management, and auditing.
  
• Platform Migration: Lead complex migrations and strategy roadmaps moving
  codebases and CICD pipelines from Jenkins, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps to
  GitHub
  
• Security Enforcement: Implement GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) controls,
  including secret scanning, dependency tracking, and code scanning
  
• Technical Mentorship: Act as a trusted advisor to teach development teams
  
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with security, product, and leadership
  teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  

Required Technical Skills

• Expert GitHub Administration: Deep knowledge of GitHub Enterprise Server,
  Cloud, organization provisioning, and GitHub APIs.
  
• Advanced Version Control: Mastery of Git internals, complex branching
  strategies (GitFlow, Trunk -Based), and merge conflict resolutions.
  
• CI/CD Mastery: Deep experience crafting custom, reusable GitHub
  Actions, runners, and environments.
  
• DevSecOps Tooling: Practical experience configuring security
  scanners, binary repositories, and quality monitoring systems.
  
• Cloud & Containers: Proficiency with cloud -native hosting (AWS,
  Azure, GCP) and container ecosystems like Docker and Kubernetes
  

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Consultative Mindset: Ability to actively listen to engineering
  friction points and offer structural remedies.
  
• Clear Communication: Adept at translating complex DevOps setups into
  high -level visual roadmaps for executive leadership.
  
• Problem Solving: Technical curiosity to debug deep pipeline
  blockers, caching issues, or runner resource limitations