• Serve as the technical owner for multiple core applications, ensuring stability, performance, and reliability. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues; drive root-cause analysis and long-term remediation. • Maintain and enhance existing systems while identifying opportunities to refactor, modularize, or modernize legacy components. • Develop and maintain documentation, architectural diagrams, and support playbooks. • Provide direction to engineers, contractors, and cross-functional partners during design, development, and code review activities. • Set and enforce coding standards, architectural principles, and quality practices. • Mentor team members through knowledge-sharing, design sessions, and pair programming. • Influence architectural decisions across Core Services, aligning with enterprise engineering standards. • Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase reliability, automation, and deployment frequency. • Partner closely with platform/infrastructure teams on cloud services, operational tooling, and production readiness. • Enhance observability (dashboards, logs, metrics, alerts) and ensure services meet SLAs. • Promote DevOps culture across the team—automation-first, shift-left on quality, and continuous improvement. • Work closely with product owners, business partners, analysts, QA, and support teams to deliver value. • Break down complex requirements into technical tasks and lead implementation efforts. • Serve as a technical liaison for project work, security initiatives, audits, and architecture reviews. • Communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders. • Contribute to cloud migration efforts, legacy modernization, and long-term architecture roadmap. • Evaluate new frameworks, tools, and technologies that could improve reliability or velocity. • Identify bottlenecks in systems and processes, proposing and implementing improvements.