Senior Technology Lead – AWS, Editorial Platforms

Role Summary

The Senior Technology Lead is a handsâon engineering lead responsible for designing building and guiding the implementation of cloudânative AIâfirst solutions for editorial and digital publishing platforms. This is an hands-on role that leads by exampleactively contributing to architecture code Quality testing and technical decisionâmakingwhile mentoring engineers and ensuring solutions are scalable secure and productionâready on AWS and other platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads handsâon design and implementation of AWSâbased solutions for editorial and AIâenabled platforms.
• Act as the technical lead for engineering teams owning architecture code quality and delivery standards.
• Define and implement cloudânative patterns (microservices EKS/ECS serverless APIâfirst design).
• Design and integrate AIâdriven capabilities such as content intelligence automation personalization and GenAI use cases.
• Collaborate closely with product data DevOps and CloudOps teams to deliver operable and scalable solutions.
• Ensure systems meet security performance reliability and cost optimization requirements.
• Drive adoption of DevOps IaC and CI/CD practices across teams.
• Perform technical reviews troubleshoot complex issues and mentor engineers through handsâon guidance.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering cloud engineering or technical lead roles.
• Strong handsâon AWS experience (EC2 VPC S3 RDS Lambda EKS/ECS IAM).
• Proven experience building cloudânative applications using containers serverless and APIs.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture principles (TOGAF or similar) applied pragmatically.
• Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI integrations including consuming managed AI services or models.
• Experience with IaC and DevOps practices (Terraform CI/CD pipelines GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with editorial or contentâdriven platforms (publishing workflows metadata XML/HTML DOI/indexing).
• AWS Solutions Architect or Developer certification.
• Experience with RAG vector databases and intelligent workflows.

This role is based in our Washington DC officeand a reasonable rate of compensation for this position is between $150000-$160000 per year. ACS employees work a hybrid schedule consisting of working onsite two days per work week as decided by functional area. The balance of the week is open to working remotely though employees are always welcome onsite each day if they choose.

ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave paid sick leave paid holidays health insurance flexible spending account or health care savings account dental insurance life insurance vision insurance retirement benefits short- and long-term disability and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills experience and location.

Any actual offer of employment reflecting the total compensation package and benefits will be made in the sole discretion of ACS. ACS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.

Required Experience:

Senior IC