Conduct architectural reviews and provide engineering guidance to ensure alignment with strategic technology vision.
Technical Strategy & Delivery
Lead the technical strategy, operational excellence, and professional delivery across multiple domains in Clearwater.
Drive improvements in system observability, maintainability, and deployment automation.
Ensure designs and implementations meet security, compliance, and performance benchmarks.
Oversee execution of multi-team, multi-service projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery at scale.
Mentorship & Collaboration
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in architecture thinking, technical design, and distributed systems development.
Build strong relationships with teams across divisions to facilitate cross-system integration and shared technology improvements.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging architectures, and cloud technologies.
Identify opportunities for re-architecting or optimizing existing systems to improve throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency.
Foster a culture of innovation, scalability, and engineering excellence across FO Reporting and broader Clearwater teams.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Proven architecture and design expertise in large-scale distributed systems, preferably in financial or analytics platforms.
Exceptional leadership skills and ability to lead through influence as a technical architect or senior tech lead.
Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and data streaming platforms (Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.).
Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including scaling, cost optimization, and multi-region deployments.
Proficiency in one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or similar) with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning.
Strong understanding of distributed data storage, database scaling, and query optimization techniques.
Worked on agentic conversational UX design and architecture.
Developed and deployed systems with complex SLAs in production environments serving high-volume traffic/data.
Excellent communication skills with ability to clearly convey architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Commitment to continuous technical learning, improvement, and community knowledge sharing.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
10+ years of professional software development experience; 5+ years acting in an architecture or principal engineering capacity.
Track record of designing and implementing enterprise-grade distributed systems and owning them through full lifecycle (design → build → deploy → maintain).
