• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience). 

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years in a solution / technical architect role. 

• Proven track record taking custom applications through enterprise security and compliance gates into production. 

• Strong cloud architecture experience (Azure, AWS or GCP) and enterprise integration / API / data design. 

• Deep understanding of secure SDLC and security-by-design practices. 

• Working knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation and infrastructure-as-code. 

Key Skills 

• Architecture & design leadership; ability to set standards and hold a design-review gate. 

• Security and compliance fluency (secure coding, threat modelling, compliance gating). 

• Excellent stakeholder management and technical communication across MY & TH teams. 

• Mentoring and uplift — able to grow tech leads and engineers. 

• Own reference architectures, design patterns and solution blueprints for RPA, AI, Power Platform and custom-built applications. 

• Act as the design gate: chair design reviews and approve solution designs before any build begins — nothing goes to Build without an approved design. 

• Embed security-by-design into every solution; ensure designs meet TP's security standard and clear TPSC, GCC and app scanning. 

• Define data flows, integrations, APIs and hosting architecture, and secure the necessary database and network access approvals. 

• Establish CI/CD and source-control standards (TP GitHub) jointly with the DevOps / CI-CD Engineer, so pods deploy the approved way.  

• Mentor pod tech leads and engineers, raising the team's engineering maturity from configuration to production-grade development. 

• Produce architecture documentation, decision records (ADRs) and standards so knowledge is retained and repeatable.