Sr. Developer / Solution Architect

MGA Entertainment, Inc.•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

7–12years 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).

Responsibilities

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.
Design and build the company’sautomation 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.
Partner withSolution designers,Data miners,and Engineeringteams to architectautomationenabled features, workflows, and applications.
Define the standards for model deployment, vector search, data pipelines, and runtime hosting.
Ensure solutions integrate properly with core enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, eCommerce, Data Warehouse).
Serve as the bridge between modern development practices and the existing enterprise IT estate.
Ensure all new solutionsfit MGA’s security, governance, compliance, and operational standards.
Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, ERP, and Data warehouseteams to ensure smooth integration and long-term maintainability.
Maintain architectural consistency across environments, products, and teams.
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.