Lead Architect - GitHub

• Are you ready to define how SoftwareOne designs, productizes, assures, and scales GitHub-based developer platforms worldwide?
• Do you want to shape GitHub Copilot-enabled modernization services while remaining close enough to the technology to prototype, review, and challenge engineering patterns?
• Is your next step a global technical leadership role with one of the global leaders in software and cloud?

Practical Information
Location: Bulgaria, Romania or Poland | Reports to: CoE – Engineering & Architecture Lead | Team Size: 20+ | Work Arrangement: Hybrid | Visa Requirements: Valid work visa for the country you are based in | Language Requirements: English | Learn more: softwareone.com

As our new Lead Architect - GitHub, you will provide global technical leadership within SoftwareOne’s Center of Excellence, shaping GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security, and GitHub Copilot architecture and offerings. Drawing on deep expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted modernization, you will create scalable services, standards, and delivery patterns for customers and regional teams. This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on engineering credibility, global partner alignment, and the development of repeatable modernization-agent services.

Key Responsibilities

• Own global technical direction, standards, delivery patterns, quality expectations, roadmap input, and lifecycle governance for the GitHub portfolio
• Shape global offerings spanning GitHub platform transformation, DevOps modernization, platform engineering, secure software delivery, developer productivity, Copilot adoption, and AI-assisted engineering
• Define migration architecture and standards for moving from Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and other platforms to GitHub
• Build repeatable modernization-agent services covering assessment, pilots, scaled modernization factories, security and quality controls, acceptance measures, and production transition
• Support strategic customer opportunities through executive discovery, workshops, assessments, solution shaping, presales, architecture assurance, and escalation support
• Enable regional architects, consultants, and engineers through reusable assets, reference architectures, architecture clinics, learning paths, accelerators, and project-ready quality criteria