Leads the design and delivery of secure, cloud-native software platforms supporting complex workflows, data-intensive applications, and AI capabilities. Provides architectural guidance across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, configuration-driven rules, and RAG/GraphRAG solutions. Ensures scalability, observability, auditability, security, and compliance while mentoring engineers, reviewing technical deliverables, improving CI/CD and incident response, and serving as an escalation point for complex technical decisions.