Senior Engineering Manager

Vonage; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Group Pension Plan

Life Insurance and Group Personal Accd

Ericsson Care Line (EAP)

Discretionary Time Off (DTO)

Volunteer Time (VTO)

Job summary

Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, seeks a senior architect to drive a lean architecture practice within a central team. You will provide architectural clarity, define reference models, and set patterns that enable distributed teams to move fast and confidently.

You’ll lead strategy across networks and platforms, push standardization, mentor engineers, and partner with product leaders to translate business needs into scalable, AI-enabled solutions in a fast-moving, agile environment.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in a senior architecture role with cross-team scope.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable solutions and reduce costs.
• Expertise in cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS.
• Strong Java experience.
• Experience with SaaS APIs and developer-facing platforms.
• Proficiency with microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, DevSecOps and IaC.
• Ability to apply ADRs and C4 diagrams in practical ways.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with stakeholders.
• Experience balancing architecture with team autonomy in fast-moving agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture strategy and target states across networks and platforms.
• Shape technology direction through standardisation, simplification, and platform investments.
• Coordinate cross-domain architectural initiatives (resilience, security, observability).
• Champion architecture governance (ADRs, Well-Architected practices).
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
• Provide hands-on support in solving complex architectural challenges.
• Communicate architectural vision to technical and business stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and architects and contribute to internal communities.
• Treat AI-assisted engineering as a core part of modern software practice and guide adoption patterns.

Skills

Senior architecture

AWS cloud

Java

Cloud-native

Microservices

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

DevSecOps

IaC

ADR / C4

Stakeholder influence

Agile execution

Job description

Join the company and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!Why this role matters:the company's API Business Unit is building a modern, lean architecture practice in a small central architecture team that empowers distributed teams to make fast, sound decisions independently. This is a high-impact individual contributor role at the heart of that practice.You will work across product and platform boundaries, providing the architectural clarity, shared patterns, and strategic direction that connects engineering decisions to business outcomes.You'll bring structure to complexity, help teams navigate trade-offs, and build the architectural capability that lets the organisation move faster with confidence.

Your key responsibilities:

• Define and evolve architecture strategy, reference models, and target states across the Network Power Solutions
• Shape technology direction through standardisation, simplification, and platform investments
• Co-ordinate cross-domain architectural initiatives (resilience, security, compliance, observability, developer experience)
• Champion architecture practices and governance (ADRs, Well-Architected practices)
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions
• Provide hands-on support in solving complex architectural challenges
• Communicate architectural vision and decisions to both technical and business stakeholders
• Mentor engineers and architects while contributing to internal communities and best practices
• Treats AI assisted engineering as a core part of modern software practice, leveraging AI tools to enhance design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, while guiding the team in adopting effective patterns and evolving best practices for AI enabled ways of working

What you’ll bringRequired:

• Demonstrable skills and experience in a senior architecture role with scope across multiple teams, products, or shared platforms
• Demonstrable experience of leveraging architectural practice to steer and deliver measurable business value and reduce unnecessary costs.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed systems architectures on AWS
• Strong Java experience
• Strong experience with SaaS, API-based, and developer-facing platforms — CPaaS or communications domain experience is a plus
• Proficiency across modern technologies and practices: microservices, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures (Kafka), CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code
• Proven ability to apply structured architectural techniques — capability mapping, ADRs, C4 diagrams, in practical, proportionate ways
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align stakeholders and drive decisions without formal authority
• Experience balancing architectural consistency with team autonomy in fast-moving, agile engineering organisations

Experience we consider a plus:

• Experience with Network API's
• AWS, Kubernetes, or related cloud certifications
• Knowledge and experience of working within an Agile methodology.

How you’ll benefit:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Plan
• Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident
• Ericsson Care Line (EAP)
• Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
• Volunteer Time (VTO)

There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at the company, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who we are:the company is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.