Would leading technical thought leadership to stakeholders excite you?
Do you love creatively solving problems for customers?
Partner with the best
Our Advanced Solutions team partners with customers to solve complex challenges as they design, implement, and operate secure cloud-native applications. We provide advisory services around best practices in the areas of performance, scale and security when leveraging the Akamai Connected Cloud.
Become a technical influencer
As a Senior Enterprise Architect focused on AI, you will advise and lead technical design for key decision-makers. You will guide customers' business strategies and help them maximize Akamai's products, emphasizing AI and emerging technologies. You will share your expertise across Akamai, supporting teams with insights on AI and related advancements.
As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying customer AI and enterprise workload opportunities with sales teams, ensuring success through Akamai cloud, delivery, and security adoption.
- Facilitating the design and implementation of Akamai Edge, Compute, and Security solutions, APIs, and architectures for advanced AI workloads.
- Guiding customers in choosing the most suitable AI frameworks, tools and technologies for their needs.
- Collaborating with data scientists, engineers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and ongoing performance of AI solutions.
- Leading innovation by advocating emerging trends, shaping product roadmaps and partnering with Product Management and R&D teams to develop future product direction and strategy.
- Providing technical thought leadership and guidance to educate peers on best practices and current technology trends.
- Establishing technical thought leadership in AI and cloud/edge computing to support Akamai's business growth strategies.
- Partnering with Product Management and Research & Development teams to develop future product direction and strategy.
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, MIS, another related field or its equivalent.
- Be proficient with scripting languages and development to help create automation on our platforms.
- Possess the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Have the ability to be a technical consultant to our customers and build effective and strategic relationships.
- Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to present to various stakeholders.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 - $250,700/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.
Skills Required
- 12 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, a related field, or equivalent
- Proficiency with scripting languages and development for platform automation
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Ability to provide technical consulting and build effective strategic customer relationships
- Ability to analyze data and provide actionable solutions and thought leadership
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for diverse stakeholders
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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