.**Responsibilities**:Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.- Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.- Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.- Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.- Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.- Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.- Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.- Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.- Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.- Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.- Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.- Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.- Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.- Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.- Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.- Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined