Senior Technology Lead – AWS, Editorial Platforms

ACS • Washington, DC

1d • $150,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Technology Lead is a hands‑on engineering lead responsible for designing, building, and guiding the implementation of cloud‑native, AI‑first solutions for editorial and digital publishing platforms. This is an hands-on role that leads by example—actively contributing to architecture, code, Quality testing and technical decision‑making—while mentoring engineers and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and production‑ready on AWS and other platforms.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, or technical lead roles.
• Strong hands‑on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS, IAM).
• Proven experience building cloud‑native applications using containers, serverless, and APIs.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture principles (TOGAF or similar), applied pragmatically.
• Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI integrations, including consuming managed AI services or models.
• Experience with IaC and DevOps practices (Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with editorial or content‑driven platforms (publishing workflows, metadata, XML/HTML, DOI/indexing).
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification.
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, and intelligent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Leads hands‑on design and implementation of AWS‑based solutions for editorial and AI‑enabled platforms.
• Act as the technical lead for engineering teams, owning architecture, code quality, and delivery standards.
• Define and implement cloud‑native patterns (microservices, EKS/ECS, serverless, API‑first design).
• Design and integrate AI‑driven capabilities such as content intelligence, automation, personalization, and GenAI use cases.
• Collaborate closely with product, data, DevOps, and CloudOps teams to deliver operable and scalable solutions.
• Ensure systems meet security, performance, reliability, and cost optimization requirements.
• Drive adoption of DevOps, IaC, and CI/CD practices across teams.
• Perform technical reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor engineers through hands‑on guidance.

Benefits

• paid vacation leave
• paid sick leave
• paid holidays
• health insurance
• flexible spending account or health care savings account
• dental insurance
• life insurance
• vision insurance
• retirement benefits
• short- and long-term disability
• 4-week work from anywhere

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees