Architect, Product Development

Lever, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

TTEC Digital, part of TTEC Holdings, is seeking an Architect of Product Development in Austin to lead engineers and oversee AI-powered CX solutions across the portfolio. You will guide solution design, coordinate complex deployments, and drive cross-team initiatives with Product Management, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and Professional Services.

The ideal candidate has extensive leadership experience, strong communication, and expertise in Google AI technologies, GCP, and cloud-native

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership, or product development.
• Experience delivering complex software implementations across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with Google AI technologies or AI-powered CX solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leads, fostering accountability, growth, and technical excellence.
• Drive delivery of product initiatives, platform enhancements, and customer deployments of TTEC Digital products.
• Coordinate execution across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product Management, Architecture, and Professional Services teams.
• Develop solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation approaches using tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, or similar platforms.
• Lead technical design reviews, implementation planning activities, and delivery readiness efforts.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and implementation challenges.
• Research and evaluate emerging AI, customer experience, and contact center technologies.
• Assess integration opportunities across AI platforms and CCaaS solutions to support product innovation and customer needs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

APIs

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

At TTEC Digital, we coach clients to ensure their employees feel valued, and fully supported, because an amazing customer experience is an employee first process. Our vision is the same, a place where employees know they can thrive.

The Architect, Product Development is a technical leadership role within TTEC Digital's Product Development organization, responsible for delivering AI-powered Customer Experience (CX) and contact center solutions across the company's proprietary product portfolio. This role combines people leadership, solution architecture, and implementation oversight to drive successful product initiatives and customer deployments. The Architect will lead engineers and technical leads while partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and Professional Services to ensure successful delivery and operational readiness.
The ideal candidate is a technically strong leader who can guide solution design, coordinate complex implementations, evaluate emerging technologies, and develop high-performing teams. This role provides opportunities for continued leadership growth and increased organizational responsibility over time.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leads, fostering accountability, growth, and technical excellence.
• Drive delivery of product initiatives, platform enhancements, and customer deployments of TTEC Digital products.
• Coordinate execution across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product Management, Architecture, and Professional Services teams.
• Develop solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation approaches using tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, or similar platforms.
• Lead technical design reviews, implementation planning activities, and delivery readiness efforts.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and implementation challenges.
• Research and evaluate emerging AI, customer experience, and contact center technologies.
• Assess integration opportunities across AI platforms and CCaaS solutions to support product innovation and customer needs.

What You'll Bring to the Role

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership, or product development.
• Prior experience managing engineers, technical leads, or software development teams.
• Proven experience delivering complex software implementations across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with Google AI technologies, conversational AI, virtual agents, Agent Assist, or AI-powered customer experience solutions.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience creating and presenting architecture diagrams and technical solution designs.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google CCAI, Vertex AI, Gemini, Dialogflow, Agent Assist, or related Google AI technologies.
• Experience with contact center and customer experience platforms such as Genesys Cloud, Amazon Connect, NICE CXone, Five9, Cisco Webex Contact Center, or similar CCaaS solutions.
• Experience evaluating, designing, or implementing integrations between AI platforms and customer experience technologies.
• Familiarity with telephony concepts, SIP-based communications, voice routing, and contact center ecosystems.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and SaaS product operations.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with modern AI platforms and services such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI/Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar enterprise AI technologies.

$125,000 - $170,000 a year

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This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based upon geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill levels.

Benefits available to eligible employees include the following:

• - Medical, dental, vision
• - tax-advantaged health care accounts
• - financial and income protection benefits
• - paid time off (PTO) and wellness time off.

This job posting will remain open until we have identified an adequate applicant pool.

About Us

TTEC Digital and our 1,800+ employees, pioneer engagement and growth solutions that fuel the exceptional customer experience (CX). Our sister company, TTEC Engage, is a 60,000+ employee service company, with customer service representatives located around the world. TTEC Holdings Inc. is the parent company for both Digital and Engage. When clients have a holistic need, they can draw from these independently managed centers of excellence, TTEC Digital and TTEC Engage.

We are also delighted to share that TTEC has been awarded the Great Place To Work 2024-2025 certification based on outstanding employee experience across 14 countries.

TTEC is a proud equal opportunity employer where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability. TTEC has fully embraced and is committed to expanding our diverse and inclusive workforce. We strive to reflect the communities we serve while delivering amazing service and technology centered around humanity.

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