Responsibilities
- Define and lead the architectural vision for large-scale client initiatives, establishing modernization roadmaps, target architectures, implementation sequences, and governance frameworks that ensure alignment with business objectives
- Collaborate with strategic leadership to develop statements of work, engaging executive stakeholders such as C-suite, CTOs, CIOs, and Chief Architects to align technology planning with enterprise goals
- Lead design and decision-making across key technical areas including full-stack development, cloud-native systems, and AI integration, while continuously refining organizational perspectives in response to industry evolution
- Design enterprise-grade solutions that reduce technical debt by navigating tradeoffs between delivery timelines, budget constraints, risk tolerance, and organizational capacity, clearly articulating implications to leadership
- Proactively identify future challenges and opportunities within client engagements, enabling early strategic adjustments before issues escalate
- Engage in scoping discussions and contribute to the technical structure of statements of work for both new and ongoing client relationships
- Develop strong, trusted advisory relationships with senior technology executives, becoming a go-to resource prior to major technical decisions
- Support clients through high-stakes modernization initiatives by resolving organizational friction, aligning diverse stakeholders, and maintaining momentum during difficult phases
- Share forward-looking insights on technology trends and position the firm as a thought leader in digital transformation
- Drive lasting change by influencing engineering culture and practices, enabling clients to maintain progress independently after engagement concludes
- Provide technical leadership across concurrent delivery streams, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic coherence of all deliverables
- Incorporate artificial intelligence and large language model capabilities—such as agentic processes, intelligent automation, and AI-enhanced software development—into modernization plans with an emphasis on operational reliability and long-term maintainability
- Collaborate with internal and client-based architects and engineers to elevate technical execution across projects
- Assist sales teams in expansion discussions by evaluating the technical viability of proposed initiatives
- Apply institutional knowledge to develop reusable tools, methods, and intellectual assets that improve future project outcomes
- Oversee the engagement experience for internal team members, supporting their motivation, professional health, and technical development
- Mentor engineers and technical leads through regular one-on-one sessions, immediate feedback, and formal evaluations, with an emphasis on cultivating future technical leadership
Responsibilities
- Set and own the architectural direction for major client engagements — defining the modernization strategy, target architecture, sequencing, and guardrails that keep delivery aligned to business outcomes
- Partner with the Strategic Principal to shape SOWs, working directly with C-suite, CTO, CIO, and Chief Architect stakeholders to align technical strategy with organizational goals
- Lead architectural design across one or more technical domains — full-stack application development, cloud-native platforms, AI integration — and evolve Liatrio's point of view as the industry changes
- Architect enterprise solutions that reduce technical debt while balancing constraints of time, budget, risk, and organizational readiness — and communicate those tradeoffs clearly to executive stakeholders
- Anticipate where engagements are heading before others do — surfacing risks, identifying opportunities, and proactively shaping strategy before problems become crises
- Participate in scoping discussions and SOW architecture for new and existing customers
- Build and maintain deep, trusted relationships with CTO, CIO, Chief Architect, and VP-level technical stakeholders — the kind of relationships where clients call you before making major technical decisions
- Guide clients through complex, politically charged modernization efforts — removing organizational impediments, building consensus across competing stakeholders, and keeping transformation on track when it gets hard
- Share industry insight, anticipate technology shifts, and position Liatrio as a forward-thinking partner
- Influence organizational culture and engineering practices at client organizations, helping them build the internal capabilities to sustain transformation after Liatrio is gone
- Provide technical oversight across multiple workstreams — accountable for the quality, coherence, and strategic alignment of everything your team delivers
- Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into client modernization strategies — agentic workflows, intelligent automation, AI-augmented engineering — ensuring those capabilities are production-grade and maintainable
- Guide and collaborate with both Liatrio and client architects and engineers, elevating the technical quality of the engagement as a whole
- Support the sales team in client expansion conversations and validate the technical feasibility of proposed work
- Leverage Liatrio's accumulated insights to create accelerators, methodologies, and intellectual property that benefit future engagements
- Accountable for the morale, well-being, and technical growth of the Liatrio team on your accounts
- Coach and mentor engineers and leads through 1:1s, real-time feedback, and formal reviews — with a focus on growing the next generation of technical leaders at Liatrio
