Lead Cryptographic Software Engineer​/Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect And Principal Software Engineer

Serves as a hands-on enterprise architect and principal software engineer for the organization's most complex cryptographic, secrets-management, and platform-security initiatives. This is a builder's role, not an advisory one — the incumbent designs and personally implements reference architectures, writes production-grade code, and proves out patterns in running systems before asking other teams to adopt them. Combines deep software engineering craft across multiple languages and technical domains with real enterprise-architecture accountability and applied cryptography experience, delivering secure, scalable, highly available solutions that set the technical direction for the division.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Architects and personally builds end-to-end software and platform solutions for complex, high-impact cryptographic and security initiatives — producing working reference implementations, not slideware, that inform new products and platforms across the division.
• Owns the enterprise-architecture vision and its execution: translates strategic goals set by executives and senior leadership into concrete technical plans, then validates those plans by writing code, standing up prototypes, and operating them in real environments.
• Designs, implements, and integrates cryptographic and secrets-management capabilities — key management, encryption/decryption services, PKI, certificate lifecycle, HSM integration, token/credential issuance, and non-human-secrets controls — into production systems.
• Establishes advanced software engineering and secure-by-design standards, guardrails, and governance patterns, and demonstrates them through his/her own delivered work, enabling multiple teams to improve quality, reliability, and delivery outcomes.
• Resolves the hardest technical problems in the domain — the recurring, ambiguous, cross-system issues no one else has cracked — by designing innovative, reusable architectures and measurable performance, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Goes arbitrarily deep in any technical domain required by the problem (distributed systems, APIs, data, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, applied cryptography), rapidly acquiring and applying expertise rather than deferring to specialists.
• Partners with senior technology leadership, product, architecture, and risk teams to shape domain strategy and roadmaps, contributing solution patterns backed by deep technical insight and firsthand implementation experience.
• Provides cross-team technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring through code reviews, design sessions, pairing, and knowledge sharing — raising the technical bar by example.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, cryptographic techniques, and research relevant to the domain, building prototypes that provide measurable input into new products, features, or capabilities.
• Leads large, complex, strategically important initiatives as an individual contributor, coordinating technical work across multiple teams while working independently with substantial autonomy and balancing innovation against risk.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in software development.
• Deep knowledge of multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, testing, deployment, and security practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of professional software development experience, with a demonstrable, ongoing record of hands-on coding (not solely design or oversight).
• Deep expertise across multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles, with the proven ability to master new technical domains quickly.
• Demonstrated enterprise-architecture experience where the candidate both defined and implemented the architecture…