Remote Senior API & Cloud Architecture Lead

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking a Senior Manager of Application Development to lead enterprise-scale application design and delivery. The role blends hands-on architecture with technical leadership, guiding a team of engineers while collaborating with product, architecture, and business stakeholders.

You will drive cloud-native solutions on AWS, API-first patterns, microservices, and AI-assisted workflows within a large enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering/application development experience.
• 5+ years of technical leadership and/or engineering management experience.
• Strong hands-on architecture and solution design experience.
• Strong development background with Java and Spring Boot.
• Extensive experience with REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on AWS.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed application architectures.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to lead complex technical programs from architecture/design through execution.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and modern software engineering practices.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development, AI agents, or intelligent workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise applications and modernization initiatives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java, APIs, microservices, AWS, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Develop high-level and low-level solution designs and ensure successful technical implementation.
• Lead and mentor a team of approximately 5-7 engineering resources.
• Drive projects and larger technical initiatives from design through production delivery.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Lead development of cloud applications using modern AWS architecture patterns.
• Drive adoption of microservices, event-driven architecture, reusable services, and API-first design.
• Oversee enterprise API and integration design, development, security, and governance.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted development tools and AI-powered applications/workflows.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, and observability best practices.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

APIs & microservices

AWS cloud architecture

Leadership & mentoring

Agile / DevOps

Tools

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

AI tooling exposure

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group is seeking a Senior Manager of Application Development to lead enterprise-scale application design and delivery. The role blends hands-on architecture with technical leadership, guiding a team of engineers while collaborating with product, architecture, and business stakeholders.

You will drive cloud-native solutions on AWS, API-first patterns, microservices, and AI-assisted workflows within a large enterprise setting.