Senior Program Manager / Solution Architect

Role Overview

We are seeking a versatile and strategic AI Solution Delivery Lead/Program manager  to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution. You will act as a consultant to business stakeholders to qualify ideas and a technical authority to engineering teams to ensure architectural integrity. Your mission is to take a concept from a "business spark" through rigorous estimation and architectural design, ultimately overseeing a high-quality delivery through QA and deployment.

Core Responsibilities

1. Business Partnership & Strategy (The "Solutioning" Phase)

• Idea Qualification:  Act as the primary point of contact for business units to gather specs and visionary ideas. Evaluate technical feasibility and business value early in the lifecycle.
• Requirements Synthesis:  Translate ambiguous business "asks" into concrete functional and non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance).
• Trade-off Analysis:  Facilitate "Build vs. Buy" decisions and conduct architectural trade-off sessions (e.g., speed-to-market vs. long-term technical debt).
• Estimation & Budgeting:  Provide high-level T-shirt sizing and detailed level-of-effort (LOE) estimates to help business stakeholders prioritize the roadmap.

2. Technical Architecture & Governance

• Blueprint Design:  Create end-to-end architectural designs, including system integrations, data flows, and infrastructure requirements.
• Decision Authority:  Own the selection of the tech stack and frameworks, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Technical Debt Management:  Balance immediate project needs with the long-term health of the system architecture.

3. Program & Execution Management

• Lifecycle Oversight:  Manage the end-to-end program roadmap, identifying critical path dependencies across multiple technical teams.
• Development Steering:  Provide technical leadership to the engineering team. Conduct architecture reviews and unblock developers on complex implementation hurdles.
• Quality Assurance & Validation:  Work with QA leads to define the testing strategy, ensuring that the "specs" gathered at the start are the "realities" delivered at the end.
• Risk Mitigation:  Identify technical and project risks early (e.g., resource gaps, integration bottlenecks) and drive mitigation plans.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Architecture Excellence:  Proven experience in designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP). atleast 3 end to end lifecycle pojects in AI
• Strategic Thinking:  Ability to see the "big picture" and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical C-suite executives.
• Agile Program Mastery:  Expert knowledge of SDLC methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and tools (Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart).
• Financial Acumen:  Comfort with cost-benefit analysis and managing project budgets/allocations.
• Experience:  15+ years in technology, with at least 4 years in a leadership role that combined technical design with project/program delivery. deep expertise in AI architectures and beginning of career with distributed technologoes ( java or .net or laternate)