Senior Manager, Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze existing application portfolios for cloud readiness, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Architect end-to-end migration solutions including re-hosting, re-platforming, and refactoring of front-end, back-end, and data components.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines incorporating AI-powered code quality gates, automated security scanning, and AI-assisted deployment validation.
• Define and drive AI-native engineering strategy across teams, establishing standards for AI tool adoption, measuring productivity gains, and reporting efficiency metrics to leadership.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams on modern development frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js) and backend technologies (Node.js, Java, Python) with AI-augmented workflows as the default.
• Design applications with AI agent integration points, evaluating and architecting agentic AI solutions within modernization and migration initiatives.
• Implement AWS security best practices and govern identity, compliance, and networking.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, QA, and business teams for delivery excellence.
• Use CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail for observability and performance optimization.
• Evaluate emerging AI development tools and platforms; set adoption strategy and measure ROI for the engineering organization.
• Maintain architecture and migration documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• 6+ years of hands-on AWS experience including modernization or migration.
• Daily proficiency with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Kiro) with a track record of establishing AI-native engineering practices across teams.
• Experience evaluating and adopting new AI development tools and platforms for engineering organizations.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks including LangChain, Claude Agent SDK, and Bedrock Agent SDK.
• Experience designing applications with AI agent integration points and understanding how agentic AI intersects with the application layer.
• Ability to measure and report AI-driven efficiency metrics to leadership.
• Proficiency in front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Strong back-end development skills with Node.js, Java, Python, or equivalent.
• Experience migrating legacy applications to AWS using methodologies like lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and refactoring.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, Cognito, IAM.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).
• Strong understanding of application security, identity management, and cloud governance in AWS.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record leading cloud migration or modernization projects.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and practices.
• Prior experience with microservices architecture, serverless patterns, and event-driven design.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Professional or Associate certifications.
• DevOps experience (CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with AWS migration tools (DMS, SCT, Migration Hub).
• Experience working in enterprise multi-account AWS environments.