About The Position

What you will be doing:

• Oversee the high-level architecture of the platform, its main components, interfaces

• Ensure continuous governance of third party integrations

• Design, document, and maintain solid architectural guidance for gelato engineering

• Assuring that our solutions are sustainable, scalable and are built in accordance with best practices, and soundly architecturally designed.

• Cultivating strong relationships with Product, Engineering, Security, Data,  and business stakeholders

• Researching, consulting, and innovating the tools, frameworks, and software for providing web-scale cloud services

• Assisting stakeholders in understanding technical implications and consequences of strategic choices

Who you are

• Holding a Masters degree in Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position

• You can relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs and thrive when working in the intersection between business and engineering development

• Strong technical background and an expert in many tech areas (web development, infrastructure, security)

• You have experience working with solution architecture in a complex enterprise environment supporting multiple teams

• You have experience in leading a team

• A pragmatic balance between building and buying solutions with a focus on the end result

• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability, and observability

• Experience designing and building highly scalable cloud-native applications

• Familiarity with common cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc.), microservice architectures (Kubernetes, event streaming, etc.), products (e.g. AWS Gateway, Postgres, BigQuery)

• You are not just a PowerPoint architect, but you work hands-on with development

• Enjoy sharing your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you

• A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.