Senior Technology Lead – AWS, Editorial Platforms & AI

American Chemical Society

2d•$160,000 - $180,000•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.