• Understand Apex’ broad product portfolio and lead design of a resilient, customer focused client-facing API and integration experience • Develop and design application delivery rails that enable Apex’s products and services to be delivered to the market in a standardized way • Ensure that our API based solutions deliver value throughout the customer journey • Oversee architectural design groups that develop “best in class” engineering practices for our services by ensuring that service and components are well defined, modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored • Lead an architecture council to drive technical decisions and ensure that services fit within our overall architecture vision • Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures • Grow and mentor developers to develop best-practices and collectively collaborate across teams to build and integrate innovative products • Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions • Build collaborative and productive relationships with development, product and program managers along with broader business stakeholders to define Apex’ developer experience strategy and help accomplish key business objectives • Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives • Have strong understanding of business and technical problems that teams are solving, able to work with stakeholders and teams to prioritize, clarify, and organize team’s work based on this knowledge • Identify risks, perform risk analysis, effectively manage risks; proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, escalating and identifying alternate options as appropriate; Follow defined Risk Management processes • Assess existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement