Sr. Developer / Solution Architect

Lead Architect

The Lead Architect will establish and guide the architectural foundation for our global MGA's emerging solution development and automation enablement capability. This is a hands-on, technical leadership role responsible for building the frameworks, environments, and standards needed to prototype agent-driven solutions quickly and transition them into MGA's traditional IT ecosystem.

The Lead Architect will define the technical pathways that connect experimentation with enterprise readiness — building a sandbox environment, establishing integration patterns, and ensuring solutions can scale securely across the business. This role blends modern software engineering, cloud-native development, and strong knowledge of traditional IT systems (ERP, data platforms, infrastructure, cybersecurity).

This position is the anchor of MGA's move from a support-focused IT model to a product-centric, innovation-driven technology organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Architecture Leadership

• Establish the architectural vision and standards for automation and agent-enabled product development.
• Define MGA's technical framework for rapid proof of concept, modular development, and scalable integration.
• Build the foundation for an internal product engineering capability operating alongside traditional IT.
• Translate long-term technology strategy into actionable reference architectures and reusable patterns.

Engineering & Platform Ownership

• Design and build the company's automation sandbox environment, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable experimentation.
• Develop the transition pipeline — moving prototypes into enterprise-ready solutions through defined quality, security, and performance gates.
• Own API strategy, integration patterns, microservice architecture, data access frameworks, and cloud infrastructure design.
• Deliver reference implementations, starter templates, and tooling that accelerate product team velocity.

Automation Enablement & Solution Architecture

• Partner with solution designers, data miners, and engineering teams to architect automation enabled features, workflows, and applications.
• Define the standards for model deployment, vector search, data pipelines, and runtime hosting.

Enterprise Alignment

• Serve as the bridge between modern development practices and the existing enterprise IT estate.
• Ensure all new solutions fit MGA's security, governance, compliance, and operational standards.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, ERP, and Data warehouse teams to ensure smooth integration and long-term maintainability.
• Maintain architectural consistency across environments, products, and teams.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Act as the senior-most technical mentor for full-stack developers, ML engineers, and platform engineers.
• Build a culture of pragmatic, hands-on engineering balanced with disciplined architectural thinking.
• Contribute to building MGA's internal product engineering team structure and capability.
• Provide coaching and guidance that grows mid-level engineers into future technical leads.

Key Deliverables (First 18–24 Months)

• Publish MGA's Architecture Framework for AI-enabled solution development.
• Build the business process automation sandbox environment and secure access model.
• Deliver the transition pipeline for promoting prototypes into production.
• Produce reference architectures and reusable components for APIs, integrations, and automation workflows.
• Support the launch of multiple AI-enabled products/solutions or automation across business units.
• Establish core architectural guardrails for ERP, data, integration, and cloud alignment.

Experience & Qualifications

• 7–12 years experience in software engineering or solution architecture.
• Hands-on expertise in cloud-native development (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, and modern application architectures.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems, LLM-based applications, or automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technologies: ERP systems, system integrations, data platforms, Power Platforms, identity management.
• Proficient with DevOps practices (CI/CD, IaC, observability) and secure-by-design engineering principles.
• Prior experience in modernization environments or product engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).