Job DescriptionAre you passionate about designing cutting-edge cloud solutions?Do you enjoy working with a diverse, global team of technical experts?Join our Global Technical Solutions Architecture team!As a Senior TSA, you'll be at the forefront of Akamai's cloud and edge computing initiatives. You will work directly with customers to architect and implement transformative solutions. You'll collaborate with sales teams, product managers, and partners to drive innovation and customer success.
As a Senior Technical Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Leading enterprise technical discovery to understand business requirements and guide solution design.
- Architecting cloud, edge, observability, and media streaming solutions across Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Designing and build proof-of-concept solutions using Akamai technologies like LKE, EdgeWorkers, EdgeKV, and mPulse.
- Providing pre-sales engineering support and manage opportunities from discovery through validation and production deployment.
- Partnering with Qualified Computing Partners to deliver integrated solutions and lead joint customer engagements.
- Creating technical enablement content, blogs, and hands-on labs to help field teams position solutions.
- Leading customer workshops, hackathons, and labs focused on EdgeWorkers, APIs, transcoding, and edge computing.
- Influencing product roadmap through customer feedback, advocacy, and documenting engagements via reviews and deal support.
Do what you loveTo be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8yrs experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, or related engineering roles and a Bachelors degree or it's equivalent.
- Demonstrate a deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as a Code.
- Have hands-on experience with edge computing, CDN technologies, and web performance optimization including Core Web Vitals.
- Show excellent understanding of media streaming technologies including live transcoding, VOD workflows, and video players.
- Have proven ability to design and deliver proof-of-concept solutions aligned to customer business requirements.
- Be effective in cross-functional collaboration with sales, product management, and engineering teams to support customer success.
- Have excellent communication skills leading workshops, executive presentations, and creating impactful technical content.
- Be proficient in modern development practices, APIs, databases, observability tools, automation, and mentoring junior engineers.
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/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.
