10+ years of progressive software engineering experience. At least 3+ years in a senior or principal architecture role. Proven expertise designing and evolving architectures in high-scale, multi-product environments. Deep understanding of domain-driven design (DDD), service decomposition, and event-driven patterns. Strong AWS architecture experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, EventBridge, SQS/SNS). Strong infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) experience. Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy systems incrementally. Solid understanding of data synchronization, API design, schema evolution, and distributed systems reliability. Experience defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and deployment strategies. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.