Senior Manager, Solution Architect

• 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,establishingstandards 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.

AI-Native Engineering Expectations

• Use AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Kiro) as your default development workflow and define the AI-native engineering strategy for the organization.
• Evaluate emerging AI development tools and platforms; set adoption strategy and measure ROI.
• Establish organization-wide standards for AI-assisted development, code review, testing, and deployment.
• Drive measurable efficiency gains through AI tool adoption and report metrics to leadership.
• Architect applications with AI agent integration points,leveragingagentic AI frameworks (LangChain, Claude Agent SDK, Bedrock Agent SDK).
• Mentor engineering leaders and teams on AI-native practices as the standard operating model.

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm., * Bachelor's orMaster'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.
• Dailyproficiencywith AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or Kiro) witha track recordofestablishingAI-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 includingLangChain, 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.
• Proficiencyin 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.
• Proventrack recordleading cloud migration or modernization projects.
• Knowledge of Agilemethodologyand practices.
• Prior experience withmicroservicesarchitecture, serverless patterns, and event-driven design., * 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.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• 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 your 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., The salary range for this position is: $124,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

PwC provides services to 420 out of 500 Fortune 500 companies. The firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse.