Technology and Data - Engineer 5 - Contingent

Job Title: Principal DevSecOps Architect

Location: Irving, TX

Duration: 24 months

Job/Role Description:

• This role serves as the chief technical visionary and enterprise architecture leader driving DevSecOps and release engineering transformation across the data and analytics ecosystem.
• Steer platform engineering excellence by establishing CI/CD patterns, IaC templates, and golden-path repos while evangelizing DevSecOps, GitOps (EPLX), and DORA metrics.
• Define and own the technical vision, architecture roadmap, and reference architectures for CI/CD using GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, web services, APIs, data pipelines, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Embed compliance controls and security scanning technologies (Sonar, Checkmarx, Black Duck, GitHub Secret Scanning, DAST) into the software delivery lifecycle as enforceable pipeline gates.
• Design and govern deployment patterns and automation to OpenShift (OCP) using Harness CD (or equivalent), including promotion, approvals, rollback strategies, and audit-ready traceability.
• Establish and chair architecture review boards, create architectural decision records (ADRs), technology roadmaps, and reusable workflow templates that encode enterprise best practices.
• Lead architectural alignment of DevSecOps tooling, observability, monitoring strategies, and incident response patterns across engineering, platform, and security teams.
• Mentor and guide Principal Engineers, Lead Engineers, and Senior Engineers on architectural patterns, sound technical trade-offs, and shift-left security practices.
• Drive cultural transformation toward DevSecOps, SRE practices, and engineering excellence through architectural leadership, proof-of-concept initiatives, and cross-organizational influence.
• Ensure predictable, enterprise-scale delivery by aligning release governance with platform architecture while reducing operational complexity and risk.

Required Qualifications

• Must have demonstrable prior experience with Open Source Contributions to Conda-Forge, Pixi Package Manager, Developing GitHub Actions and CI/CD Automation.
• 12+ years of software engineering and architecture experience with demonstrated expertise designing systems in Python at enterprise scale.
• 12+ years of architecting web applications, distributed systems, and platform solutions using industry-standard frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask).
• 12+ years of designing APIs, frameworks, automation pipelines, and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.
• 12+ years with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS) or on-prem platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, including platform architecture and capacity planning.
• 10+ years of experience architecting CI/CD pipelines, DevOps platforms, and release engineering systems, including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow design.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and leading complex engineering initiatives.
• 10+ years of building web applications and APIs using industry-standard frameworks (Django, FastAPI).
• 8+ years designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) including deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience integrating automated security scans into CI/CD pipelines static code analysis (Sonar), SAST (Checkmarx), SCA (Black Duck), and secret scanning (GitHub Secret Scanning) and defining enforceable policy gates for release readiness.
• Experience designing and operating deployment automation to OpenShift (OCP) using Harness CD (or equivalent), including promotion, approvals, and rollback strategies.
• 7+ years of security architecture experience including DevSecOps, application security, threat modeling, and compliance automation.
• 7+ years of enterprise architecture leadership defining architecture standards, governance frameworks, and engineering processes across multiple teams.
• Experience utilizing coding assistants (GitHub Copilot) and AI-powered development tools, with ability to define organizational adoption strategies.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale technical transformations, cultural change initiatives, and architecture modernization programs.
• Ability to work on-site at approved location and collaborate effectively in a hybrid enterprise environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions.