Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture, Media, Entertainment and Sports

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture to lead our Solutions Architecture team supporting one of the biggest customers within the Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports (MEGS) vertical. This role combines deep industry expertise with people leadership to drive customer success and business growth for our most strategic accounts in the rapidly evolving media and entertainment ecosystem.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead and develop a team of Solution Architects for key MEGS accounts
• Drive performance management, hiring, and team member career growth
• Provide technical coaching with deep MEGS industry expertise

Strategic Account Management

• Develop and execute technical strategy for major MEGS accounts
• Partner with Sales to align solutions with customer objectives
• Build technical relationships with customer executives and decision makers
• Lead complex engagements across content production, broadcast, streaming, gaming, and sports analytics
• Measure and optimize team effectiveness through defined KPIs

Technical Leadership & Innovation

• Guide digital transformation initiatives including cloud migration and content delivery optimization
• Work with AWS media teams on feature prioritization and roadmap development
• Support executive briefings and technical deep-dive sessions
• Establish training programs focused on media workflows

Industry Impact & Development

• Create thought leadership content including whitepapers and case studies

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• AWS Associate level certification
• Experience working with Media & Entertainment industry customers