Akamai Enterprise Architect- 

United States 

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Become a technical influencer

Working within an integrated team, you'll provide technical advisory services and technical development designs to key decision-makers, influencing your customers' business strategies and maximizing the value they receive from our products. You'll be an expert lead on cutting-edge and emerging technologies. You will also show high standards of leadership- provide subject-matter-expertise for new products to the rest of the organization, research, establish, and disseminate industry trends, and actively support other teams within the Akamai Global Services organization through training and one-on-one mentorship.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Working with customers to define a technical strategy for business-critical web applications, mobile expansion, and network infrastructure
• Analyzing performance and security observability data and other metrics to identify critical issues and opportunities for improvement
• Providing guidance to peers on best practices and latest technology trends, such as Dev-ops and Web performance
• Partnering with Product Management and Research & Development teams to develop future product direction and strategy
• Ensuring smooth running of customer engagements and act as final technical escalation point for internal stakeholders
• Acting as a customer advocate by confidently and proactively raising issues and concerns with customers before they can impact business

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field, or its equivalent
• Have experience working in a customer-facing role focused on delivering technical products or services to diverse audiences of stakeholders
• Understand how the internet and its networks and protocols (IP, DNS and routing, HTTP, TCP, and other web architectures) work
• Be a trusted, independent technical consultant to our customers and build solid and strategic relationships based on the customer's best interests
• Be capable with popular scripting languages and development tools to help create automation on our platforms
• Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership through engaging storytelling to both internal & external stakeholders
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to present to various stakeholders, from technical to operational to executive audiences

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.