Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
Experience: 8+ years
Business-to-tech translation. Partner with PM and business-ops leaders across GWS and CELA to turn ambiguous business problems into clear solution approaches with a defensible build-vs-buy-vs-adopt recommendation.
Technical direction & foresight. 1P product partnership. Build-vs-buy stewardship.
Bring rigor and honesty to make-vs-buy decisions; be willing and able to say, "don't build this" and route to a 1P or 3P solution when that serves the business better.
Architecture across domains. Provide cross-cutting architectural guidance spanning workplace operations (GWS) and legal/immigration/contracts (CELA), ensuring coherence, reuse, and a common technical foundation as the two orgs converge.
Agentic-AI leadership. Shape the reference architecture for our agentic services and AI-native engineering direction, in partnership with the SWE managers and Engineering Excellence.
Established, active relationships with the key 1P product teams our roadmap depends on. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
5+ years experience as a technology or solution architect, setting technical direction for enterprise-scale platforms, with focus on security and scale. 3+ years of architecting and/or building enterprise-scale Agentic platforms.
Prior depth in at least one of the domains - digital workplace or legal tech, along with the appetite to master unfamiliar domains. Experience in Demonstrated build-vs-buy judgment.
Ability to no to building and ground to the business outcomes. Track record influencing product/partner teams without formal authority; credible in senior technical rooms.
Strong grounding in AI/agentic architecture and modern cloud (Azure) patterns. Gravitas to challenge and align senior engineering managers on technical direction.
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