• Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering and product teams on platform architecture, modernization, and best practices; build credibility and influence with engineering and digital product leadership to shape backlogs, standards, and engineering practices. • Provide strategic direction for platform evolution, ensuring business and technology roadmaps are aligned both tactically and strategically, from near‑term delivery through long‑term capability development. • Design, prototype, and evolve core platform components, contributing to the broader enterprise architecture and enabling engineering teams with scalable, secure, and well‑documented reference solutions. • Evaluate, design, and integrate AI/ML capabilities into platform services, including model consumption patterns, automation, and intelligent workflows that deliver measurable business value. • Lead platform assessments and architectural reviews, conducting stakeholder alignment, risk analysis, and structured problem‑solving to support high‑priority initiatives and critical decision‑making. • Influence Discovery, Framing, and Inception activities across the ecosystem, applying architectural simplicity and sound engineering principles to drive clear outcomes and reduce complexity. • Apply industry standards and assess emerging technologies, synthesizing and communicating relevant insights to the broader engineering community to ensure platform solutions meet enterprise expectations. • Collaborate closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure platform architectures adhere to governance, regulatory, and security requirements by design. • Provide technical mentorship and thought leadership, including documentation standards, and knowledge sharing across platform consultants and engineering teams.