Description
Define and oversee the architecture of websites and web applications to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance systems across browsers, devices, and platforms. Establish coding standards, architectural patterns, and integration strategies; evaluate and select technologies, cloud services, and infrastructure. Guide development teams through design, prototyping, and implementation while aligning solutions with business goals and compliance. Optimize server-side architecture, data models, and deployment pipelines, and integrate web platforms with enterprise systems.
- • Architect and govern multi-tier web platforms, frameworks, and services.
- • Define and maintain web architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.
- • Prioritize requirements with stakeholders and translate them into architectural roadmaps.
- • Direct website and application modernization and migration initiatives.
- • Conduct architecture and code reviews for standards, performance, and cross-browser compatibility.
- • Stay current on web technologies, cloud platforms, and programming practices; curate adoption guidelines.
- • Elicit and analyze business and user needs to derive technical and nonfunctional requirements.
- • Design data models and select databases to support web applications and integrations.
- • Architect and implement e-commerce and payment integrations with security and compliance controls.
- • Produce reference implementations, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts to validate approaches.
- • Collaborate with network, security, and DevOps teams to resolve infrastructure and platform issues.
- • Define testing strategies and environments; ensure traceability from requirements to tests.
- • Select programming languages, frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines for projects.
- • Establish governance for content deployment, configuration management, and change control.
- • Design directory and URL structures, routing, and content delivery strategies.
- • Lead performance engineering, capacity planning, caching, and CDN strategies.
- • Author architecture specifications, API contracts, and system interface documentation.
- • Define security architecture for web platforms, including identity, encryption, and secrets management.
- • Monitor architectural health and reliability metrics; drive remediation plans.
- • Evaluate and recommend server, container, PaaS, and serverless options.
- • Document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technology evaluations.
- • Benchmark server load, bandwidth, database performance, and client device compatibility.
- • Plan and oversee web server and reverse proxy configuration standards.
- • Model system interactions, sequence flows, and integration diagrams.
- • Define disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies for web platforms.
- • Incorporate cost, performance, accessibility, and privacy requirements into designs.
- • Develop API and integration strategies for third-party and enterprise systems.
- • Oversee rollout plans, blue/green or canary deployments, and rollback procedures.
- • Manage domain, DNS, and certificate strategies at an architectural level.
- • Coach development teams and provide architectural guidance throughout delivery.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
