[Hiring] Senior Manager, Digital Architecture @World Wide Technology

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Digital Architecture within WWT Digital is both a senior technical authority and a people leader responsible for the performance and growth of an experienced team of architects. You will govern solution architecture across multi-team client engagements while serving as the performance manager for your team. This role demands a leader who combines deep hands-on credibility in distributed systems with the coaching mindset needed to develop talent and the executive presence required to advise clients at the highest levels.

If you are energized by leading high-performing architects, shaping technical strategy for marquee clients, and evolving the way WWT Digital delivers transformative solutions, we would love to connect. Join us and help guide the future of our architecture practice.

• Define and govern solution architecture across large, multi-team transformation programs, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Serve as performance manager for a team of senior technologists, providing coaching, feedback, and career development support.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for multiple solution architects, application architects, and technical leads to ensure delivery excellence.
• Partner with strategists, creatives, and researchers to blend customer insight with technical feasibility inside modern digital transformation roadmaps.
• Conduct technology reviews, assessments, and dependency mapping exercises that inform modernization strategies and executive decision-making.
• Lead the creation of custom sales presentations, prototypes, and client roadmaps that translate visionary concepts into actionable plans.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs across technical teams and executive stakeholders, tailoring the message to each audience.
• Lead technical requirements definition and analysis for programs within your portfolio, ensuring architectural decisions are grounded in well-understood business and system requirements.

Qualifications

• 20 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least five years of experience architecting systems, at least five years in a technical leadership or consulting role, and a minimum of two years managing teams of architects or technologists.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated depth across multiple technology stacks, including backend distributed systems, mobile applications, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript web platforms.
• Hands-on experience with emergent AI coding practices using LLM-based coding tools to accelerate design and delivery workflows.
• Proven track record managing and mentoring architects and technologists, including performance management responsibilities.
• Strong consulting background with experience presenting complex technical strategies to executive and C-suite audiences.
• Deep understanding of build vs. buy concepts, with the ability to guide clients toward pragmatic technology decisions.
• Prior experience in native application architecture and deployment in a major cloud environment — Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing practices, and modern DevOps approaches.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to operate effectively at both strategic and tactical levels.

Requirements

• Travel: Up to 25% of the time

Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year) & Holidays (10 per year), Parental Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program