- Partner with Product Owners and Engineering to challenge requirements and solve real customer problems
- Design with customer empathy
- Prioritize ruthlessly based on impact
- Build lean, cost-efficient systems for price-sensitive markets
- Champion simplicity in system design
- Design secure, resilient, scalable architectures
- Bridge technology-business gaps by translating complex concepts
- Empower and mentor teams to make architectural decisions
- Stay on the ground through code reviews and pair programming
- Participate in post-mortems and operational reviews