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Lead target-state architecture translating commercial and service strategies into executable roadmaps, prioritize Salesforce and enterprise platforms, drive portfolio simplification, quantify cost savings, ensure alignment across sales, service, martech and finance, and represent architecture in governance.

Design, configure, and support APIs on the KONG platform, implement API security (OAuth2/OpenID Connect/JWT), manage API lifecycle and migrations, troubleshoot gateway and performance issues, monitor usage, support CI/CD deployments, and collaborate with development, platform, and security teams.

Design, modernize, and optimize cloud-native applications on AWS using microservices, containers, and serverless patterns. Lead architecture reviews, migrate monoliths to microservices, implement CI/CD and IaC, ensure scalability, security, cost-optimization, and support observability and compliance requirements.

Design, deploy, and administer Solace messaging infrastructure across cloud environments. Implement event-driven strategies, configure brokers/VPNs/queues, secure and monitor environments, integrate with microservices and external platforms, automate with Terraform/Ansible, troubleshoot messaging performance, provide L3 support, and enable internal teams via training and POCs.

Senior IT leader who translates enterprise strategy into technology roadmaps, governs architecture and technology selection, leads an architecture community, reduces technical debt and cost, and ensures coherent target-state architectures and execution across business units.

Translate supply chain strategy into target-state architecture across planning, manufacturing, quality, logistics, warehousing, and fulfillment. Lead solution architecture for ERP/MES and platform integrations (SAP, JD Edwards, Maximo, Camstar, POMSnet, DC Link), deliver sequenced roadmaps that reduce complexity and costs, guide consolidation and modernization, enforce governance and enterprise standards, and advise executive stakeholders.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Harness. Build observability with Dynatrace/Datadog, troubleshoot production incidents, run blameless postmortems, optimize cost/performance, drive chaos engineering, embed SRE practices (SLAs/SLOs), and mentor junior engineers.

Lead Duck Creek configuration, implementation, and deployment for enterprise insurance platform transformations. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders, support policy administration enhancements and integrations, troubleshoot complex issues, mentor junior developers, and participate in cloud modernization and migration programs.

Design, configure, operate, and troubleshoot multi-vendor IP networks. Implement and maintain MPLS/IP services, routing (OSPF/BGP), LAN technologies, QoS, IPSec VPNs, and firewalls. Lead migrations, upgrades, audits, documentation, and collaborate with operations and project teams to ensure performance and minimal downtime.

Serve as technical liaison between product, business, and development teams to define specifications, support application releases, manage change/defects, document integrations, and ensure performance, security, and cross‑functional alignment across Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security domains.