Distinguished Architect, Engineering Excellence

The Mission

We are looking for a visionary leader to architect our transformation from "AI-Assisted" to "AI-Native." You will not just select tools; you will fundamentally rewrite the social contract of our engineering culture.

Your mandate is to drive Engineering Excellence across the entire enterprise—bridging the gap between our critical brownfield systems (Sales, Finance, Legal, Support) and our high-velocity greenfield product innovations. You will implement a "Crawl, Walk, Run" strategy that elevates our developers from bricklayers to architects, orchestrating fleets of AI agents to deliver reliable, secure, and valuable software.

Who You Are

• A Player-Coach: You are as comfortable refactoring a 10-year-old monolith in the Finance stack as you are prototyping with the latest Agentic workflows in Cursor.

• A Master Communicator: You can explain the "Cone of Uncertainty" to a Junior Developer and the ROI of "Self-Healing Tests" to the CFO. You excel at evangelizing complex technical shifts to non-technical stakeholders across Marketing, Legal, and Customer Success.

• A Legacy Modernization Specialist: You approach "Brownfield" challenges with an operational mindset. You view legacy code not as a burden, but as a critical asset to be optimized. You use modern AI tools to systematically reverse-engineer, document, and stabilize hidden business logic to ensure operational continuity.

Your Impact

1. Driving Strategy: The "Crawl, Walk, Run" Framework

• Define the Vision: Move the organization from simple individual augmentation (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to systemic autonomy (Agentic workflows).

• Governance & Safety: Establish "Human-on-the-Loop" protocols. You will define the liability frameworks and "circuit breakers" necessary to prevent AI agents from spiraling into infinite loops or security breaches.

• Tooling Landscape: Curate the corporate toolkit, making high-stakes decisions between enterprise platforms and high-velocity disruptors based on privacy and capability.

2. Brownfield Modernization: Sales, Finance, Legal & Support

• Legacy Analysis: Utilize AI agents to reverse-engineer and document our core business systems across the enterprise. You will implement tools to create "interactive documentation" that explains complex logic in Sales, Finance, Legal, and Customer Support workflows where original authors are no longer present.

• Reimagine process at Scale: Lead initiatives to automate technical debt reduction, using AI to upgrade language versions and refactor synchronous code to asynchronous patterns without disrupting critical GTM, contract processing, or support ticket resolution flows.

3. Greenfield Acceleration: The "Blank Page" Solution

• Automated Architecture: Implement "Diagram-as-Code" workflows where architecture diagrams are generated from natural language and stay synced with the code.

• Rapid Prototyping: Empower product teams to move from "Text-to-UI" instantaneously, using generative design tools to validate ideas before a single line of production code is written.

4. Evangelism & Culture Transformation

• Change Management: Drive the cultural shift required for AI adoption. You will host hackathons, internal "prompt engineering" workshops, and town halls to demystify AI for the broader organization.

• Cross-Functional Bridge: Act as the translator between Engineering and Business functions (Marketing, Legal, HR). You will demonstrate how AI in the SDLC directly impacts time-to-market for their specific requirements.