Audit and document the existing platform architecture and integrations across services and systems.
Produce clear architecture diagrams and documentation that supports both day-to-day delivery and longer-term decision-making.
Identify integration bottlenecks, inconsistencies, and technical debt, and propose concrete changes.
Work with tech leads to agree shared integration principles and guidelines across squads.
Define a target integration model suitable for CDP’s future needs, including patterns for service boundaries and interactions.
Create a pragmatic roadmap for improving integration architecture, with clear priorities and milestones.
Support squads to deliver the roadmap, including design collaboration, code and approach reviews, and unblocking decisions.

Extensive hands-on experience designing and improving integration architecture across multiple services.
Strong engineering background in modern web stacks, with deep practical experience in CDP’s stack (Node.js, React, Nest.js) and working knowledge of Azure-based systems.
Experience setting standards and aligning multiple teams on shared technical approaches, without slowing delivery.
Ability to reverse-engineer unclear systems, improve them incrementally, and explain trade-offs in plain language.
Strong written communication, producing documentation that engineers actually use.
Practical, collaborative working style with a bias towards shipping improvements and raising overall engineering quality.

Lead Engineer

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