Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for highly scalable, reliable distributed systems and data platforms. Defines architecture and technical strategy for Java microservices, Kafka pipelines, data lakes, and cloud-native services. Owns reliability objectives, observability, disaster recovery, performance, capacity planning, and operational excellence. Partners across product, infrastructure, security, data, and SRE teams while recruiting and developing senior engineering leaders, improving developer productivity, and managing modernization, technical debt, and cloud costs.