Sr Manager, Full Stack Engineering & AI Architecture

Job Description

Title: Sr. Manager, Full Stack Engineering & AI Architecture

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Location: Glenview, Illinois - onsite

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Type: Contract to hire

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Rate: $97/hr ; $200k conversion salary

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Duties and Responsibilities:

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• Provide technical direction and leadership for the full-stack development team and contractors, establishing engineering standards, practices, and priorities.

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• Set application architecture, technology decisions, design/code reviews, and resolution of complex technical challenges.

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• Coach and mentor developers, by doing, while promoting collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

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• Partner with Business Analysts so that the technology solutions for the business functions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready.

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• Remain technically engaged through architecture reviews, prototypes, critical development efforts, and evaluation of emerging technologies. Set standards through “hand on” POC creation.

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• Assist in developing the enterprise AI strategy into actionable platform roadmaps and technical priorities.

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• Partner with data, security, and infrastructure teams to define the end-to-end AI architecture framework, including compute, model lifecycle, and deployment strategies.

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• Evaluate emerging technologies, creating POC’s, and recommend platform enhancements to improve model performance, scalability, and sustainability.

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• Define and deliver AI / ML / Agentic operations strategy – including tool suite, standards, and technology / capability roadmap.

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• Establish POV on key evaluations – including, but not limited to "buy v. build”, platform assessments, tool comparisons, cost / performance optimizations.

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• Drive the technical strategy for the platform, balancing short-term needs with long-term scalability and reliability.

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• Design, implement, and scale cloud-based infrastructures (Snowflake, Azure) to support internal and external applications.

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• Oversee platform architecture decisions, ensuring that the platform is robust, efficient, and capable of supporting growing business needs. Create & test out patterns then provide to the team for scale and implementation.

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Qualifications:

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• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

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• 5+ years of professional software development experience and architecture, including production applications.

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• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and direction to software teams.

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• Strong experience with Python, React, TypeScript, C#, .NET/ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, SQL and/or PostgreSQL.

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• Strong understanding of software architecture, security, CI/CD, scalability, and observability.

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• Ability to establish engineering standards, guide technical decisions, and conduct design/code reviews.

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• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

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• Knowledge of AI / ML ecosystems.

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• Knowledge in designing MLOps pipelines and AI Ops frameworks at enterprise scale.

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• Experience setting technical standards and coordinating across distributed engineering teams.

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• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions.

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• Comfortable navigating new, Client technology solutions and managing ambiguity to deliver in evolving domains.

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• Familiarity with security and compliance standards for platform operations.

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• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.

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• Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

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• Comfortable with presenting up to senior leadership (SVP/VP level); able to present technical concepts to non-technical and executive levels.

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This position is eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision