Senior Manager, Solution Architect

Skills

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

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, or 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.