- Define and champion a long-term architectural vision tightly aligned with global business strategy.
- Serve as the COO’s senior technical advisor, providing due diligence, risk assessments, and build-vs-buy guidance.
- Drive architectural alignment across distributed engineering teams through shared standards and unified platform direction.
- Establish pragmatic platform governance and “Golden Paths” that accelerate delivery without slowing teams down.
- Lead innovation efforts, including R&D and PoCs for AI/ML, real-time communication, and media technologies.
- Guide the evolution of a cloud-native, secure, highly scalable platform while modernizing legacy monolith components into modular APIs.
- Act as the technical lead for high-stakes tenders, especially in government and regulated sectors.
- Partner with Product to ensure clear ownership boundaries, modular design, and data-driven architectural improvements.
- Embed architects into Scrum teams to ensure reusable components, consistent APIs, and continuous feedback from production telemetry.
- Manage and mentor a small team of architects, balancing operational load with long-term strategic investments.