Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• 5-Year AI-Native Vision: Architect and execute the 5-year technical roadmap to evolve Yahoo Mail into a modular, agent-driven communication platform, leveraging advanced GenAI frameworks and agentic workflows.
• Executive Strategy & C-Suite Influence: Serve as the primary technical authority for Yahoo Mail, partnering closely with SVPs, Product Leaders, and executive stakeholders to align architectural strategy with broad business objectives.
• Agentic AI & LLMOps Governance: Establish enterprise-grade multi-agent orchestration engines, RAG pipelines, and LLMOps frameworks using approved tools (such as Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock), defining guardrails for identity-aware access, hallucination prevention, and inference budget control.
• Enterprise AI Engineering Standards: Lead the adoption of AI-augmented engineering workflows across the organization, setting guidelines for GitHub Copilot usage, automated code quality linting, and AI-assisted architecture reviews.
• Full-Stack & Distributed Systems Architecture: Own the technical continuity across high-concurrency client interfaces, API gateways, distributed search indexing, and low-latency storage engines to guarantee 99.99% system availability.
• Legacy Modernization & Performance: Lead the strategic evolution of legacy monoliths into event-driven, microservice-based cloud architectures, optimizing QPS throughput and infrastructure expenditure.
• Architecture Review Board (ARB) Leadership: Chair the Yahoo Mail Architecture Review Board (ARB), establishing reference architectures, engineering RFC processes, and design governance standards.
• Talent Multiplier & AI Fluency: Mentor technical directors, principal engineers, and architects, fostering an engineering culture grounded in systems thinking, AI-assisted development, and rigorous technical execution.
• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.
• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of serving as a Chief Architect, VP of Architecture, Technical Fellow, or direct Advisor to CTOs/SVPs (IC7 level).
• Demonstrated experience architecting and deploying production-grade GenAI systems, multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and LLMOps at enterprise scale.