Solutions Architect Manager

Meta • Austin, TX

31d

About The Position

Meta is seeking a strategic and technical solutions architect to join the Global Operations Systems team. You will be responsible for strategy definition, design, delivery, and adoption of internal tooling necessary for different lines of business (e.g. Product Data Operations; Product Operations; Integrity and Support Operations) to achieve their organizational objectives, in collaboration with product and engineering teams. We are in the midst of a fundamental transformation of our tooling. As a leader in a high impact team, you will be at the heart of driving this transformation focusing on strategy definition and key technical developments. In close partnership with engineering, product and other cross-functional teams, you will lead working teams to translate tooling problem statements into strategy, technical requirements, design solutions with product and engineering, and deploy key solutions that meet current and future business needs. Doing so will require aligning and leading large cross-functional teams and programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of software industry experience, including systems engineering, solutions architecture, or technical product/program management experience
• Experience in organizational coordination and establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and partners in different time zones
• Experience in analytical thinking and problem-solving with large-scale systems, proven track record in delivering technology programs or products from inception to delivery, understanding user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Experience operating across multiple teams, demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership
• Experience communicating and collaborating with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Experience leading AI-driven technical workstreams

Responsibilities

• Mentor other solution architects and foster a healthy, and productive team environment
• Define strategic tooling direction and optimize tooling stack
• Drive end-to-end execution and delivery of technical programs from ideation, technical and data analysis, system design, development, testing, and implementation and post-implementation
• Implement scalable systems that align with business objectives, mapping supporting data structures to drive informed decision-making and measurable customer outcomes
• Develop a technical understanding of system architecture and data flows to identify opportunities for optimization, ensuring seamless integration and effective measurement of key performance indicators
• Craft technical programs where none existed, pulling disparate and often complex components together
• Drive strategy and execution of the program by building alignment, managing dependencies, mitigating risks, and communicating clearly
• Forge partnerships with technical and business leaders across the company, ensuring that team resource investments align with company priorities. This requires navigating conflicting priorities, competing resources, quickly evolving business needs, and the AI landscape
• Lead from the front by leveraging your technical proficiency to proactively identify and analyze complex, long-term, critical tooling challenges with engineering leaders and stakeholders
• Structure and optimize cross-functional working groups for effective execution
• Lead programs centered on customer focus and effective communication, emphasizing decisive, fast-moving solutions, quick and constructive conflict resolution

Benefits

• bonus
• equity
• benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees