Would leading technical thought leadership to stakeholders excite you?
Do you love creatively solving problems for customers?
Partner with the best
Our Advanced Solutions team partners with customers to solve complex challenges as they design, implement, and operate secure cloud-native applications. We provide advisory services around best practices in the areas of performance, scale and security when leveraging the Akamai Connected Cloud.
Become a technical influencer
As a Senior Enterprise Architect focused on AI, you will advise and lead technical design for key decision-makers. You will guide customers' business strategies and help them maximize Akamai's products, emphasizing AI and emerging technologies. You will share your expertise across Akamai, supporting teams with insights on AI and related advancements.
As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying customer AI and enterprise workload opportunities with sales teams, ensuring success through Akamai cloud, delivery, and security adoption.
- Facilitating the design and implementation of Akamai Edge, Compute, and Security solutions, APIs, and architectures for advanced AI workloads.
- Guiding customers in choosing the most suitable AI frameworks, tools and technologies for their needs.
- Collaborating with data scientists, engineers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and ongoing performance of AI solutions.
- Leading innovation by advocating emerging trends, shaping product roadmaps and partnering with Product Management and R&D teams to develop future product direction and strategy.
- Providing technical thought leadership and guidance to educate peers on best practices and current technology trends.
- Establishing technical thought leadership in AI and cloud/edge computing to support Akamai's business growth strategies.
- Partnering with Product Management and Research & Development teams to develop future product direction and strategy.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, another related field or its equivalent.
- Be proficient with scripting languages and development to help create automation on our platforms.
- Possess the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Have the ability to be a technical consultant to our customers and build effective and strategic relationships.
- Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to present to various stakeholders.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 - $250,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
