Role OverviewThe Chief Architect is a senior leadership role that owns Sitero's enterprise architecture vision and AI development strategy. This is a hands-on, high-impact role — you will set the standards, govern the decisions, and lead the transformation of how we build and scale our products.
You will chair the Architecture Review Board, govern all AI tooling adoption across engineering, and build a lean but high-impact architecture team. You will work closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Operations leadership to ensure every product Sitero ships is built on a solid, scalable, compliant foundation. Key Responsibilities Architecture Governance
• Own the enterprise architecture vision across all Sitero products (CTMS, EDC, RTSM, Payments and emerging platforms)
• Chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB) bi-weekly reviews of significant technical decisions
• Mandate and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for all major design choices
• Define architecture standards, approved patterns, and guardrails across the engineering organisation
• Maintain living architecture documentation per product, regularly updated and accessible to all engineers
• Lead architecture audits across all products — identify gaps, risks, and technical debt AI-Enabled Development & Modernisation
• Champion and mandate AI-enabled development as the standard operating model across all engineering teams
• Partner with the Head of Engineering & Product development and roll out the approved AI tooling stack: Git Lab, Claude Code, and AI test generation tools
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted coding to ≥70% across all teams within Year 1
• Oversee the migration to contemporary CI/CD practices: zero-downtime deployments, automated regression suites, rollback capability within 15 minutes
• Build the engineering practices that eliminate manual coding as the default and establish AI-assisted review as the norm
• Own Sitero's AI-enabled development strategy as the organisation-w