Product/Platform Architect

Job Purpose

• Own and evolve product/platform architecture to meet roadmap,SLOs, security, and cost targets; provide architecture governance

Responsibilities Internal

• Define reference architecture, guardrails, golden paths; maintain
  C4/UML and ADRs
  • Apply DDD, CQRS/Saga, and eventdriven patterns (Kafka) with
  polyglot persistence
  • Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA,
  rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)
  • Embed securitybydesign (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zerotrust) and
  observability (SLOs, error budgets, tracing/logging/metrics)
  • Chair/participate in architecture review councils; ensure standards
  compliance and gated releases

Responsibilities Customer/Market

• Maintain external market sense; align product choices to customer
  needs and roadmap
  • Support strategic customer conversations on platform direction
  and extensibility

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Deep .NET or Java with adjacent stacks; Azure/AWS managed
  services
  • Eventing & data: Kafka (partitions, consumer groups, retention),
  schema evolution, consistency models
  • DevSecOps and productiongrade observability; performance/cost
  optimization

Soft Skills

• Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.

Min Relevant Experience

• 1218 years overall with 35 years leading product/platform architecture; shipped at scale.

Key Performance Indicators (examples)

• Architecture compliance 90% and ADR cadence/SLAs met
  • SLO attainment; cost within guardrails
  • Adoption of reusable assets/patterns across teamsRole & responsibilities