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Overview

The Technical Program Engineer role is responsible for facilitating Architectural Governance & Tooling Standards and guiding an enterprise-wide architectural governance group focused on standardizing tooling and technology choices across platform engineering teams. This role ensures consistent, scalable, and secure technical standards by coordinating decision-making processes, developing technical documentation, and driving end-to-end delivery of standards.

This individual should have strong software development expertise which enables effective technical and architectural governance facilitation, driving alignment among engineering, architecture, and product leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities

Governance Leadership

• Facilitate and lead the Architectural Governance Group in decisioning Architecture and Tooling solutions that apply across the enterprise.
• Ensure productive, timebound, and outcome-oriented discussions.
• Drive alignment on standardized tooling, architectural patterns, and technology decisions across platform and product engineering teams.
• Serve as the accountable owner for automating governance workflows, meeting cadences, decision tracking, and documentation repositories.

End-to-End Project Management‑to‑End Project Management

• Manage governance-related initiatives from proposal through approval, documentation, implementation, and adoption.
• Build and maintain timelines, milestones, and status reporting for architectural standardization efforts.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts to ensure smooth decision-making and delivery.

Documentation & Technical Communication

• Create and maintain clear, high-quality technical and architectural documentation, including:
• Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
• Technical standards and guidelines
• Governance policies and process documentation
• Tooling evaluation summaries and recommendations
• Architecture diagrams
• Present complex technical concepts to diverse audiences in engineering, security, architecture, and product leadership.
• Git-based, docs-as-code workflows for creating and reviewing documentation.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with engineering, architecture, DevOps, SRE, and security teams and business segment stakeholders to ensure decisions reflect real-world needs and constraints.
• Partner with leaders to drive adoption of approved standards and tooling across the organization.
• Support the creation and operation of domain-specific working groups as needed.

Continuous Improvement

• Evaluate and refine governance processes to improve clarity, decision velocity, and team engagement.
• Reduce toil in workflow and processes through use of agentic workflows.
• Maintain documentation templates, workflows, and governance best practices.
• Monitor industry trends in platform engineering, SaaS architectures, and enterprise tooling to inform future standards.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in technical project management, platform engineering, software architecture, software development or related technical leadership roles.
• Experience working in platform engineering environments building SaaS or cloud-native solutions.
• Strong understanding of tooling and patterns common to modern platform engineering, including CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, security tooling, and cloud services.
• Proven ability to create technical documentation, decision records, architecture summaries, and governance materials.
• Excellent facilitation skills—able to guide groups toward decisions, manage conflict, and drive consensus.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, and senior leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Additional duties as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), RFC processes, or technical governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture patterns and tooling ecosystems.
• Experience standardizing tooling or technical practices across large engineering organizations.

Success Indicators

• Architectural governance group operates with clarity, consistency, and measurable decision velocity.
• Technical standards are widely adopted and reduce fragmentation and tooling sprawl.
• High-quality documentation enables transparency and alignment across engineering.
• Platform engineering teams report increased clarity and efficiency in selecting and implementing tooling.