Principal Architect

<div class="SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:20pt;line-height:32.375px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Principal Architect </span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:20pt;line-height:32.375px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Location: </span><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Bengaluru</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Reports to: </span><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Chief Technology Officer (CTO)</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Experience: </span><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">14–20 years, with a substantial track record in software architecture and technical leadership</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Function: </span><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Engineering </span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:13.3333px 0px 14.3333px;padding:0px 0px 5.33333px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(191,191,191);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">About LeadSquared</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">LeadSquared is a rapidly growing SaaS platform powering high-velocity sales and customer engagement execution across global industries, including BFSI, Education, Healthcare, and Marketplaces. We build large-scale, mission-critical systems focused on performance, reliability, and innovation. As our platform and product portfolio expand including new AI-native capabilities we are looking for a Principal Architect to shape the technical foundation that will carry the business into its next phase of growth.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:13.3333px 0px 14.3333px;padding:0px 0px 5.33333px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(191,191,191);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Role Overview</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">We are looking for a Principal Architect for our Core Platform who combines deep technical architecture skill with a strong grasp of LeadSquared’s technology, product, and business landscape. This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting directly to the CTO built around technical ownership and influence</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">You will own the target-state architecture of the core platform: defining where it needs to go to support the future direction of our products and business, and charting a credible, phased path to get there. Just as importantly, you will be a magnet and mentor for our most talented senior engineers raising the technical bar across the organisation and giving high-potential IC talent a compelling reason to grow and stay at LeadSquared.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:13.3333px 0px 14.3333px;padding:0px 0px 5.33333px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(191,191,191);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Key Responsibilities</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Platform & Technical Strategy</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Build and maintain a deep working understanding of LeadSquared’s technology stack, product portfolio, and the business/customer landscape across BFSI, Education, Healthcare, and Marketplaces.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Define and drive the target-state architecture for the core platform covering scalability, multi-tenancy, extensibility, performance, security, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Infra </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Cost </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> data architecture.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Translate the future direction of product and business including emerging AI-native and agentic capabilities into a coherent, sequenced architecture roadmap.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Establish architectural principles, standards, and guardrails across services, APIs, data, and integration layers, and ensure they are consistently applied.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Evaluate new technologies, platforms, and patterns (cloud-native, data, AI/agentic where relevant) that keep the platform future-ready and competitively differentiated.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Make and own architectural trade-off calls that balance paying down technical debt against the pace of new capability delivery.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Cross-Functional & Business Alignment</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div></div><div class="SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap;"><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Partner closely with the CTO, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Engineering and Product</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> leadership, and business stakeholders to keep platform architecture aligned with product strategy and market direction.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Represent core platform architecture in leadership forums, bringing a technical lens to business and product decisions.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Assess build-vs-buy, platform consolidation, and modernisation choices through a business-outcomes lens, not just a technical one.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Engage with customers and internal stakeholders as needed to validate that architectural direction holds up against real-world use cases.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Talent Development & Mentorship</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Inspire and mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and architects across the organisation raising the overall quality of technical thinking and decision-making.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Build structured mechanisms for coaching and knowledge-sharing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">esign reviews, architecture forums/guilds, RFC and ADR processes that scale good architectural practice beyond any one team.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Act as a magnet for senior IC talent: create a visible, credible technical growth path that improves engagement and retention of high-potential engineers.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Champion engineering best practices design reviews, architecture decision records, documentation, and code quality as habits, not one-off exercises.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Hands-On Technical Leadership</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Stay hands-on: prototype, review designs and code, and work directly alongside teams on the platform’s hardest problems.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Lead resolution of the most complex, cross-cutting architectural challenges </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">such as </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">scale, reliability, data consistency, and security.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Set up lightweight governance (architecture review forums, a technology radar) that keeps the platform coherent as teams and services multiply.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:13.3333px 0px 14.3333px;padding:0px 0px 5.33333px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(191,191,191);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Required Skills & Experience</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Technical Background</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">14–20 years of overall software engineering experience, with a significant and recent track record in architecture and technical leadership roles on large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Proven experience owning target-state or reference architecture for a platform of meaningful scale and complexity.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Strong, credible hands-on background across modern technology stacks (e.g., Java/.NET, cloud-native services, microservices, distributed systems) deep enough to earn the respect of senior engineers.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL & NoSQL) and system design trade-offs at scale.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud-native architecture practices.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap;"><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Familiarity with AI/ML and agentic architecture patterns (e.g., RAG, LLM orchestration, vector search) is a strong plus, given LeadSquared’s growing AI-native roadmap.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:14.6667px 0px 6.66667px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Leadership & Influence</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers and architects without formal reporting authority — leading through influence and credibility.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Excellent communication skills; able to explain architectural rationale clearly to the CTO, business leaders, and, where needed, customers.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Strong stakeholder management, able to balance the sometimes-competing needs of product, business, and engineering.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Genuine interest in coaching and teaching, with a track record of building technical culture that improves the quality and retention of senior talent.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;clear:both;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:13.3333px 0px 14.3333px;padding:0px 0px 5.33333px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:rgb(191,191,191);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(46,116,181);"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(31,78,95);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;font-weight:bold;">Why LeadSquared?</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:13pt;line-height:21.5833px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;color:rgb(31,78,95);"> </span></p></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Shape the target-state architecture of a global SaaS platform used by thousands of enterprises.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">A high-ownership, high-visibility role reporting directly to the CTO, with the freedom to set technical direction.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">The opportunity to build a lasting technical legacy both in the platform’s architecture and in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">engineers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> you mentor.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div><div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"><ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:verdana;"><li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 7px;padding:0px;clear:both;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;vertical-align:baseline;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"><span xml:lang="en-in" lang="en-in" class="TextRun SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;">Competitive compensation and the chance to work at the intersection of core platform, product, and emerging AI capabilities.</span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW33915349 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(198,198,198);border-color:rgb(198,198,198);font-size:11pt;line-height:19.55px;font-family:'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;"> </span></p></li></ul></div></div>