Senior Architect - Incydr

Responsibilities

• Contribute at the problem-framing stage, not just after requirements land.
  • Run and facilitate workshops with product managers, engineers, UX designers, and subject matter experts to surface user needs, constraints, and opportunities.
  • Define what “good” looks like in customer and business terms before settling on a technical shape.
• Own integration contracts as product artifacts.
  • Help define how the product line touches the rest of the Mimecast platform.
  • Own the durable interfaces — APIs, events, and data contracts.
  • Do the coordination work that makes integrations actually land.
• Build the architectural context engineering teams operate inside.
  • ADRs, data contracts, and service interaction patterns.
  • These are how architecture decisions get propagated and enforced at scale across humans and agents — they’re part of the build system, not the wiki.
• Coordinate across teams and organizations.
  • A lot of the impact in this role comes from getting the right people in the room, gathering stakeholder buy-in, and shepherding decisions to closure.
• Engage Enterprise Architecture bidirectionally.
  • Bring cross-product and platform-level decisions to the EA for alignment.
  • Pull EA-level constraints into product shaping early.
  • Push back when standards don’t fit your situation, with a clear case.
• Estimate and monitor cost and unit economics.
  • Provide cost projections for new architecture work;
  • flag unexpected spend and propose remediation.
  • Reason about cost per outcome — per protected user, per investigated incident, per inference — not just AWS spend.
• Wear a technical-architect hat when it adds value.
  • Default mode is solution and product shaping.
  • Drop into detailed technical design when the problem warrants it or when you’re unblocking a team — and know when to step back out.
• Propose technical debt work.
  • Identify and prioritize debt reduction with Product Management partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering and architecture experience, with at least 2 years in a Solutions Architect, Principal Engineer, Tech Lead, Product Architect, Staff Engineer, or similar role with significant product-shaping responsibility.
• Willingness and drive to use AI development tools in a professional setting.