Job Description :

Key Responsibilities :

1. People, Talent and Cross-Functional Collaboration :

- Ensure optimal staffing levels across front-end, back-end, full-stack, and platform specializations.

- Hire, coach, and develop top-tier engineering talent.

- Manage direct reports and technical leads, address performance issues promptly, and build strong relationships with Product, Design, Platform, Data, and agile train leadership to deliver cohesive, customer-focused solutions.

2. Community of Practice, Developer Experience and AI-Driven Engineering :

- As AI tooling becomes inseparable from modern engineering practice, own the convergence of Community of Practice standards and AI adoption as a single discipline.

- Foster best practice adoption across the engineering community with AI tooling treated as a first-class part of the practice.

- Define standards for responsible AI adoption including when to use AI coding assistants, agents, skills, and MCP integrations versus traditional approaches.

- Establish clear guidance on the distinction between AI Skills (deterministic capabilities) and Agents (autonomous, multi-step workflows).

- Evaluate, pilot, and roll out AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Continue.dev, Aider, Cline, Ollama).

- Define governance for AI use in regulated financial services contexts including data handling, PII protection, IP compliance, and code provenance.

- Track and measure the combined impact of CoP practices and AI adoption on cycle time, PR throughput, defect rates, and developer satisfaction.

3. System Architecture and Technical Direction :

- Own a modern view of system architecture spanning client, server, data, integration, and AI layers.

- Champion patterns such as micro-frontends, BFF, event-driven, API-first, serverless, and composable architectures.

- Partner with Enterprise Architects on platform alignment.

- Guide trade-off decisions (monolith vs. microservices, sync vs. async, build vs. buy).

- Use AI-powered architecture tools to accelerate design exploration and generate ADRs.

- Ensure teams document decisions so both humans and AI agents can reason about the system.

- Understand how AI tools interact with system architecture including RAG, vector databases, MCP integrations, and agentic workflows.

4. Strategic Planning, Delivery and Operational Excellence :

- Ensure plans align with CoP goals, review quarterly commitments to flag risks early, and step in to resolve conflicts between product, design, and engineering.

- Drive CI/CD best practices, ensure high-quality scalable solutions across the stack, and provide on-call support during escalations.

- Support tech leads hands-on when needed, regardless of which layer of the stack the problem lives in.

Required Skills/Knowledge :

- Strong hands-on background in modern front-end technologies (ReactJS, TypeScript, NextJS, Cypress) as an anchor foundation, with working knowledge of back-end technologies, APIs, microservices, and data layer concepts.

- Experience with AWS cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.

- Proven ability to lead engineers working across the full stack.

- Solid grounding in system architecture fundamentals distributed systems, scalability, CAP trade-offs, caching, messaging, API design and familiarity with modern patterns (micro-frontends, BFF, event-driven, CQRS, serverless, composable architectures).

- Experience making and documenting architecture decisions (ADRs), with understanding of how AI-native architecture (RAG pipelines, vector databases, agent orchestration) differs from traditional architecture.

- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) with clear understanding of the difference between AI Skills and Agents, familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol), RAG patterns, and experience defining AI usage guidelines and governance frameworks for regulated environments.

- Awareness of the open-source AI tooling ecosystem (Continue.dev, Aider, Cline, Ollama).

Key Skills :

- Team Management, AI tools, Coding, API, Ai Builder, Application Programming, Java, Software Architecture Design, Safe, Copilot, Front End Technologies, Microservices, Backend Development, Cicd Methodology, Ai Algorithms, Software Engineering, Software Design