Define and govern the technical aspects of the product portfolio and underlying engineering platforms
Maintain long-term technical strategy and ensure it is aligned with the portfolio reference architecture.
Identify, track, and manage portfolio-level technical debt impacting scalability, maintainability, or reliability.
Evaluate emerging technologies and translate innovation initiatives into a path to build.
Support engineering teams in resolving complex technical trade-offs and design decisions.
Establish architectural assets, principles, standards, and reference patterns that guide engineering teams.
Coordinate and execute architectural work through architects embedded within development teams.
Provide technical oversight for major product capabilities and cross-system integrations.
Align product architecture with on-prem and cloud infrastructure capabilities and standards.
Define architectural patterns supporting service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs).
Collaborate with SRE teams on recovery strategies, monitoring architecture and capacity planning
Interface with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment with regulatory and industry requirements.

MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
10–15 years of experience in software engineering
implementing distributed real-time data-processing environments
leading architecture governance across multi-site engineering teams in complex product organizations.
leading agile teams acting as product owner
Deep technical knowledge of:
Cloud platforms and distributed systems
Analytics, edge processing and BI pipelines
API, microservice and integration architectures
Generative AI / LLMs (OpenAI, LangChain, RAG, Agents, Vector DB’s, etc.)
Observability and reliability engineering
Secure software architecture
Experience in telecom software environments advantageous
Experience with MLOps & model lifecycle advantageous

Principal Engineering Architect

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