early, with proportionate mitigation and decision records Engineering excellence and software quality Establish and promote engineering standards covering clean architecture, SOLID principles, secure coding, automated testing, code quality and maintainability. Define guardrails for APIs, event‐driven integration, data access, error handling, logging, monitoring and operational readiness. Champion performance engineering, resilience … Service, Functions, Service Bus or queues, API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, containers and monitoring services. Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, code quality controls, observability, incident diagnosis, reliability engineering and DevSecOps practices. Knowledge of application security, identity and access management, OWASP guidance, threat modelling, privacy by design ...