Senior Architect, Software Development

Overview

The Senior Architect will provide architecture leadership across platform engineering and technology modernisation, translating strategic technology direction into scalable engineering solutions within the organisation responsible for platform engineering, OneDev 2.0 and technology modernisation.

What you'll do

• Own and guide architecture for strategic platform and modernisation initiatives.
• Define architecture patterns, technical standards and engineering guardrails.
• Lead architecture decisions for complex, cross-team technology initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to translate architecture into executable solutions.
• Review solution designs for scalability, resilience, security, maintainability and operational readiness.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies and technical debt early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Reduce technical decision bottlenecks by providing senior-level architecture direction.
• Drive standardisation and reuse across engineering teams rather than allowing fragmented solutions.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads and strengthen architecture capability within the broader organisation.
• Support technology roadmap development and alignment between platform strategy and engineering execution.

What you'll need

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, CI/CD, DevSecOps, platform engineering and cloud-native delivery.
• Strong knowledge of modern software delivery technologies including Harness, source control, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, IaC, policy-as-code and developer platforms.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, reusable patterns, security controls and governance across enterprise engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents and agentic workflows, with experience or demonstrated ability to integrate AI-assisted capabilities into the CI/CD lifecycle for intelligent automation, pipeline optimisation, troubleshooting, security analysis, knowledge discovery and engineering productivity.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of RAG, enterprise knowledge grounding, AI tool/API integration, Responsible AI and governance.

Details

• Hybrid position: performs job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.