Tech Lead, Software Architect

Purpose:

To provide advanced technical leadership and engineering direction across development initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards, while remaining an individual contributor role.

• Provide technical leadership for a squad while remaining an individual contributor.
• Define technical approaches, engineering standards, and implementation patterns for assigned products.
• Lead technical design and development of complex systems and critical components.
• Facilitate squad ceremonies and own team-level delivery cadence and technical planning.
• Break down features into technical work and support estimation and sequencing with the Product Owner.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Review solution designs, code, and implementations for quality and architectural alignment.
• Drive engineering best practices for scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Ensure squad delivery meets change governance, release, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate technical options and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• Support architecture decisions and ensure consistency across integrated systems.
• Drive resolution of critical production issues requiring advanced engineering expertise.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and code reviews, without direct people-management accountability.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders on delivery.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a delivery team.
• Deep expertise across backend or frontend engineering with strong breadth across the stack.
• Proven experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad.
• Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.
• Certifications in Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, or other relevant professional certifications are preferred.