Sr Manager, Full Stack Engineering & AI Architecture

Addison Group · Glenview, Illinois

FULL TIME$2,00,000 – $2,00,000 / yr

Job Description

Title:

Sr. Manager, Full Stack Engineering & AI Architecture

Location

Glenview, Illinois - onsite

Type:

Contract to hire

Rate:

$97/hr ; $200k conversion salary

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical direction and leadership for the full-stack development team and contractors, establishing engineering standards, practices, and priorities.

Set application architecture, technology decisions, design/code reviews, and resolution of complex technical challenges.

Coach and mentor developers, by doing, while promoting collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Partner with Business Analysts so that the technology solutions for the business functions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready.

Remain technically engaged through architecture reviews, prototypes, critical development efforts, and evaluation of emerging technologies. Set standards through “hand on” POC creation.

Assist in developing the enterprise AI strategy into actionable platform roadmaps and technical priorities.

Partner with data, security, and infrastructure teams to define the end-to-end AI architecture framework, including compute, model lifecycle, and deployment strategies.

Evaluate emerging technologies, creating POC’s, and recommend platform enhancements to improve model performance, scalability, and sustainability.

Define and deliver AI / ML / Agentic operations strategy – including tool suite, standards, and technology / capability roadmap.

Establish POV on key evaluations – including, but not limited to "buy v. build”, platform assessments, tool comparisons, cost / performance optimizations.

Drive the technical strategy for the platform, balancing short-term needs with long-term scalability and reliability.

Design, implement, and scale cloud-based infrastructures (Snowflake, Azure) to support internal and external applications.

Oversee platform architecture decisions, ensuring that the platform is robust, efficient, and capable of supporting growing business needs. Create & test out patterns then provide to the team for scale and implementation.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

5+ years of professional software development experience and architecture, including production applications.

Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and direction to software teams.

Strong experience with Python, React, TypeScript, C#, .NET/ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, SQL and/or PostgreSQL.

Strong understanding of software architecture, security, CI/CD, scalability, and observability.

Ability to establish engineering standards, guide technical decisions, and conduct design/code reviews.

Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Knowledge of AI / ML ecosystems.

Knowledge in designing MLOps pipelines and AI Ops frameworks at enterprise scale.

Experience setting technical standards and coordinating across distributed engineering teams.

Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and deliver enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Comfortable navigating new, Client technology solutions and managing ambiguity to deliver in evolving domains.

Familiarity with security and compliance standards for platform operations.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.

Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Comfortable with presenting up to senior leadership (SVP/VP level); able to present technical concepts to non-technical and executive levels.

This position is eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision

Company	Addison Group
Location	Glenview, Illinois
Type	FULL TIME
Niche	Full-time
Salary	$2,00,000 – $2,00,000 / yr

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