Your first major assignment is to lead the decoupling of our UI from its underlying web technology stack and the business logic it sits on top of. Initial groundwork has already been laid, and your role is to pick this up, sharpen the target architecture, and drive it through to completion across the teams involved. The outcome should give us a UI that can evolve independently of the platform beneath it, a web stack that can be modernised without rewriting business logic, and a domain layer properly insulated from presentation concerns.
Architecture & Technical Strategy (core accountability)
- Derive key architectural pain points from codebase analysis, incident patterns, developer friction, and business direction
- Create clear priorities and actionable plans to address those pain points, with defined milestones and success criteria and align them with the team and the management
- Follow through on those plans until final delivery, coordinating work across multiple teams where necessary
- Define and communicate the architectural vision for significant parts of the codebase, translating that vision into concrete roadmap input
- Anticipate future technological shifts and position the organisation to respond early rather than reactively
- Present architecture reviews and contribute to tech strategy documents that inform leadership decisions
Technical Excellence & Innovation
- Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple technical domains, providing guidance on unfamiliar parts of the codebase with confidence
- Drive the adoption of new technologies and approaches where they offer genuine competitive advantage
- Identify critical code paths and propose or implement solutions that measurably improve performance, reliability, or maintainability
- Tackle unprecedented, highly ambiguous problems with appropriate solutions
- Stay current with industry developments and strategically apply relevant advancements to Checkmk
Product & Customer Orientation
- Develop a deep understanding of Checkmk as a product: how it is used, where it creates value, and where it falls short in real customer environments
- Ground architectural decisions in the reality of users and operators, not only in technical elegance or internal engineering concerns
- Engage directly with product management, customer-facing teams, and, where useful, customers themselves to validate assumptions and pressure-test proposals
- Translate customer pain and product strategy into technical priorities, and push back when architectural work risks drifting away from user value
Enabling Others & Quality Culture
- Autonomously identify weak spots in technology and process across the organisation, then deliver solutions with measurable impact
- Establish coding standards, design patterns, and architectural best practices that teams can adopt independently
- Mentor and coach senior and staff engineers, broadening their impact across teams
- Raise the bar on testing and quality engineering: define testing strategies across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, improve test infrastructure and coverage where it matters most, and embed quality practices into how teams work rather than treating them as an afterthought
- Lead the creation and maintenance of critical technical documentation and knowledge bases
- Set a high standard in code reviews and technical guidance that elevates engineering quality across teams
Delivery & Execution
- Break down large, ambiguous initiatives into actionable plans that can be implemented across multiple teams
- Lead cross-functional efforts to deliver high-impact projects, coordinating engineers, aligning stakeholders, and managing risks
- Sponsor roadmap initiatives, coach their owners, and actively invest in derisking to ensure timely delivery
- Balance long-term strategic work with day-to-day execution, choosing the right levers to maximise impact
- Weigh the pros and cons of technical decisions with explicit regard to business goals, communicating trade-offs clearly to senior leadership