Senior Product Architect at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA

Join our world-class Cloud Security organization

Our team is part of the Cloud Security organization. We help thousands of the largest enterprises around the world protect their websites and secure their transactions over the internet. As a Fortune 1000 company and Gartner recognized web security market leader, we have a proven record of delivering best in class security products and experiences to our customers.

Have an impact on the future of Internet Security

In this role, you'll create end-to-end architecture for new security products and features, defining both technical and user aspects of the product. Translating customer needs into bold architecture, you will work on a wide range of problem statements, diving deeper than other teams to understand and address complex security pain points.

As a Senior Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Defining the high-level architecture for new product features and functionality, including conception, UX and end-to-end design
• Partnering directly with customers to ensure our products and features are capable of addressing industry pain points
• Sharing designs with software engineering teams to guide them through the design process and product development
• Providing technical guidance to peers on best practices and the latest technology trends
• Presenting design for review to other teams internally as part of the product development process

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, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent
• Have experience working on large-scale, web-based enterprise management systems
• Maintain a big picture approach, capable of keeping the end-to-end vision in mind when designing new features
• Have experience working within a technical team and a detailed understanding of the software development life-cycle
• Have good interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse corporate and client environment
• Be passionate about building features that will be usable for our customers and help solve their problems
• Have passion and aptitude to learn new tools and technologies related to web security

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please discuss your requirements with the recruiter when you apply.