Key Responsibilities - Define and govern the technical blueprint and target-state architecture for the Line of Business (LOB), ensuring alignment with the enterprise technology roadmap, cloud strategy, security standards, and modernization objectives - Provide strategic leadership in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, AI adoption, and Enterprise Architecture, establishing standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices - Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Principal Architects, and cross-functional technology leaders to drive standardization, reuse of platforms, common technology capabilities, and enterprise-wide engineering synergies - Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native, resilient, scalable, and secure architectures across Azure, GCP, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments - Establish and govern SRE practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, reliability engineering standards, resilience testing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness governance - Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices by embedding security, quality, compliance, and operational controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle - Define and govern enterprise CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps, test automation, release automation, and deployment pipeline standards - Lead the evaluation, selection, standardization, and governance of software engineering and DevOps platforms, including tools such as GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus/IQ, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, security scanning tools, and AI-powered engineering platforms - Establish engineering quality gates and governance frameworks covering code quality, technical debt management, dependency management, software supply chain security, architectural compliance, and release readiness - Define and oversee AI governance frameworks, ensuring responsible adoption of AI technologies, AI-assisted development, secure usage of Generative AI tools, compliance, risk management, data protection, model governance, and engineering productivity measurement - Lead Proof of Concepts (PoCs), technical evaluations, and innovation initiatives involving emerging technologies, cloud services, AI capabilities, observability platforms, automation solutions - Architect and govern comprehensive observability and monitoring solutions leveraging technologies such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging platforms - Establish and maintain an enterprise-wide Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) framework covering availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, scalability, security, observability, maintainability, auditability, recoverability, sustainability, and operational excellence - Define measurable NFR KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics for critical business applications, digital channels, integration platforms, cloud services, data platforms, and AI-enabled workloads - Oversee architecture reviews and technical assurance activities, ensuring solution artefacts, designs, integrations, and implementation approaches comply with enterprise architecture, security, DevSecOps, and operational excellence standards - Partner closely with Cyber Security and Governance teams to continuously enhance enterprise security standards, secure engineering practices, threat mitigation strategies, software supply chain security controls, and regulatory compliance requirements - Lead technical governance for production environments, including incident management, problem management, root cause analysis, reliability improvements, post-incident reviews, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions - Collaborate with third-party vendors, cloud providers, and internal technology teams to design, implement, and govern robust enterprise integrations, APIs, event-driven architectures, and platform services - Conduct enterprise application portfolio assessments and define modernization roadmaps, including cloud migration, platform consolidation, re-platforming, application rationalization, technical debt reduction, and retirement strategies - Build and mentor a high-performing architecture and engineering community by developing architects, engineering leads, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and SRE practitioners - Champion engineering excellence through the establishment of standards, communities of practice, architectural governance frameworks, reusable platforms, reference implementations, and enterprise-wide best practices Requirements / Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree or Honors in Engineering/Computer Science/Mathematics/Sciences or Equivalent - 10+ years in architecture or system design roles with 3+ years focused on Technology architecture, Cloud and DevSecOps - Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and cloud computing - Deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability engineering - Ability to conduct research and adopt emerging technologies and software development tools - Proven ability to foster a collaborative team environment, encouraging innovation and continuous improvement - Skilled in adapting and integrating emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Generative AI into software solutions - Proficient in using advanced software engineering tools and platforms, including containerization and CI/CD pipelines - Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Quality Assurance processes - Expertise in area(s) of Architecture, Enterprise Integration patterns and software design and development - Expertise in modern software architecture, including microservices, serverless computing, and cloud-native applications - Hands-on experience in identifying the application bottlenecks using Dynatrace/ELK APM/AppDynamics tool - Excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills Preferred / Nice to have - Certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/Google architecture expert - Exposure to enterprise sectors like aviation Selection process / Benefits (if stated) - How to Apply: complete the application form and upload CV ---