About the Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will set the architectural vision, raise the bar on engineering quality and velocity, and drive how AI reshapes the way we build and operate software. Our engineers are AI native and engage in and advance the state of the art in the practice of software development flow with AI.
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud architecture across the organization, bringing deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider and the ability to translate those patterns into multi-cloud environments
- Direct DevOps strategy with a relentless focus on quality, efficiency, and flow, treating AI as a core lever for improving how the team ships and operates
- Help shape backend architecture and development, setting standards and making key technical decisions
- Evolve the data engineering practice, applying broad and deep knowledge across pipelines, storage, and processing to keep data infrastructure reliable and scalable
- Provide people leadership for a matrixed team spanning DevOps, infrastructure, and data engineering, mentoring engineers and coordinating across reporting lines
Requirements
- Deep, demonstrated expertise in cloud architecture, with mastery of one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and proven ability to design and reason about multi-cloud environments
- Strong backend development background with a track record of architecting and shipping production systems
- Broad and deep data engineering knowledge spanning ingestion, transformation, warehousing, and the tradeoffs between them
- A DevOps mindset oriented toward measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, and flow, with conviction about where AI accelerates engineering work
- Experience leading engineers, including in matrixed or cross-functional structures where influence matters as much as authority
Skills
- Cloud architecture
- Multi-cloud environments
- DevOps strategy
- AI tooling
- Backend architecture
- Data engineering
- People leadership
Experience Level
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 - $250,000
About the Company
- Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology.
- We solve consumer and business problems and help establish new capabilities for clients.
- We have a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike.
- We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
- The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.
- We work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing.
- We value collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
- The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent.
- We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.
