Senior Manager, Solution Architect
PwC · Baltimore, MD · 3 wk ago
HybridEngineering$124k–$280k/yrFull-time
About the role
As a Senior Manager in our Digital Integration & Architecture practice, you’ll be an enterprise-scale change agent—shaping vision with executives, governing complex delivery, and building the capabilities clients need to sustain change.
Responsibilities
- Lead assessment, planning, and execution of full stack application migrations to AWS.
- 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.
- Design AWS-native architectures using Lambda, EC2, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, and IAM.
- 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.
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.