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Defines and governs end-to-end enterprise technology solutions aligned with business objectives and architecture standards. Designs cloud, hybrid, distributed, microservices, API, integration, data, security, and AI-enabled architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Leads modernization strategies, technology evaluations, architecture roadmaps, risk mitigation, governance, and technical design reviews. Collaborates with business stakeholders, engineering teams, vendors, and architecture specialists while supporting delivery, pre-sales, proposals, and client presentations.

Build scalable backend-heavy services and applications using C# and .NET, while contributing to Angular and TypeScript UI development. Design and develop REST APIs and microservices, work with relational databases, implement automated testing and CI/CD, and ensure system security, scalability, and performance. Preferred work includes event-driven architectures, messaging systems, NoSQL databases, caching, search technologies, and mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.

Lead backend architecture for large-scale cloud-native e-commerce, loyalty, identity, payment, and customer engagement platforms. Define scalable APIs, event-driven systems, microservices, integrations, data architectures, AWS infrastructure, observability, security, and resiliency standards. Guide modernization, governance, technical roadmaps, architecture reviews, and cross-functional delivery while mentoring engineering teams and aligning platforms with QSR digital ordering and omnichannel customer experiences.

Design, build, and manage highly available GCP platform infrastructure, including GKE, networking, storage, compute, containerization, monitoring, security, and Infrastructure as Code. Automate provisioning and CI/CD, optimize platform performance and costs, document procedures, troubleshoot issues, and mentor junior engineers. Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to maintain scalable, secure, and compliant cloud environments.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of scalable web applications using React.js and Node.js. Defines architecture, develops REST APIs and microservices, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, troubleshoots production issues, and ensures application performance, security, scalability, and reliability. Collaborates with Product, QA, DevOps, and Architecture teams while supporting testing, CI/CD, sprint planning, estimation, and technical improvements.

Serve as a senior Scrum Master and agile coach, embedding Scrum values, improving squad maturity, enabling self-organization, removing systemic impediments, and driving continuous improvement. Partner with Product Owners on backlog readiness and value delivery, coach teams and leaders, support predictable outcomes, foster psychological safety, collaborate with other Scrum Masters, and contribute to agile scaling initiatives.

Owns the vision, roadmap, prioritization, delivery, adoption, and performance of enterprise membership data products. Partners with membership, marketing, CRM, engineering, analytics, security, privacy, and governance teams to define identity, lifecycle, quality, and KPI requirements. Oversees governed Databricks data products supporting activation, experimentation, personalization, reporting, and AI use cases while ensuring privacy and responsible use. Requires strong product leadership, data product expertise, stakeholder influence, and knowledge of membership or loyalty strategies.

Develops and maintains full-stack software applications. The posting provides compensation, benefits, contractor availability, and application timing information but does not specify particular technical responsibilities, technologies, or qualifications.

Owns the roadmap and lifecycle of supply chain data products, from discovery and prioritization through launch, adoption, and outcome measurement. Defines data concepts, KPIs, business rules, quality standards, and operational requirements while partnering with engineering, analytics, architecture, and supply chain stakeholders. Uses Databricks and lakehouse concepts to support analytical and operational workflows involving inventory, replenishment, logistics, fulfillment, transportation, and exception management. Requires occasional travel to operational facilities.

Leads creative deliverables for assigned workstreams, overseeing and producing visual designs, branding, layouts, graphics, style guides, and creative briefs. Contributes to information architecture, taxonomy, and content structures while directing project delivery and offshore resources. Requires extensive enterprise digital design experience across web and mobile, strong UI and visual design expertise, UX knowledge, technical communication skills, and advanced understanding of design systems and design tokenization.