• Define and own the long-term technical architecture and platform strategy • Establish architectural principles, standards, and reference patterns • Ensure architectural decisions align with organizational, operational and finance goals • Serve as the final architectural authority for major platform and infrastructure decisions • Balance near-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability • Own cloud architecture strategy with a primary focus on AWS • Drive cost efficient, scalable, and resilient cloud designs • Partner with engineering and cloud operations to optimize infrastructure spend • Standardize core platform capabilities such as networking, identity, data, and observability • Guide decisions around build vs buy for platform services • Define approved architectural patterns for AI and machine learning capabilities • Ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, cost effective, and production ready • Partner with engineering and product teams to embed AI into the platform intentionally • Avoid fragmented or experimental AI implementations that create long term risk • Stay current on AI platform capabilities and guide responsible adoption • Align architectural decisions across engineering teams to avoid duplication • Review and guide major design decisions and technical proposals • Ensure reuse of shared services and platform capabilities • Reduce architectural drift as teams and products scale • Establish lightweight governance that enables speed without bureaucracy • Partner with the CTO on technology strategy and investment decisions • Lead senior engineers and architects across the organization • Mentor senior engineers across the organization • Influence without direct ownership by building trust and technical credibility • Communicate architectural direction clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Plan and design large technology systems that are secure, reliable, and easy to maintain • Create and maintain clear system plans, diagrams, and technical standards • Guide technology teams on best practices, tools, and modern platforms such as cloud services • Design scalable solutions, including cloud-based systems, APIs, and connected services • Work with business partners to understand needs and turn them into technical requirements • Ensure systems follow company standards, policies, and security guidelines • Help improve system performance and reduce technical issues • Mentor and support junior architects and engineers by sharing knowledge and guidance

• Own the data-to-value motion for Mediafly’s strategic customers, starting with a top-account focus, by mapping customer objectives to measurable KPIs, analyzing structured and unstructured data, and producing defensible value narratives that increase adoption, retention and expansion. • Ensure insights and frameworks scale into our broader digital success motion through repeatable data definitions, templates, and playbooks.

• Lead cyber resilience assessments of clients including requesting and analyzing evidence of recovery program maturity, recovery technology configurations, cloud environment implementations, backup processes, network segmentation, and access controls. • Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to the programs. • Draft detailed architecture designs including key recovery technology (Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault) configurations. • Proactively advise clients on Isolated Recovery Environment design principles including but not limited to network segmentation, least privilege access, and time synchronization. • Perform highly technical business impact analysis including infrastructure dependency mapping for development of bill of materials. • Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and development of Cyber Recovery Plans, Procedures, Runbooks, and Playbooks. • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium-sized engagements, anchoring discussions in architectural principles, security patterns, and measurable outcomes. • Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed. • Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks and milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful, on-time delivery aligned to business objectives. • Lead or contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including the development of secure, segregated, and resilient technology architectures that support clients' business continuity, cyber resilience, and recovery objectives. • Consult on solution designs that employ strong security controls, constrained trust boundaries, restricted access models, and operational separation from primary production environments. • Create and finalize project deliverables, to include peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team. • Present deliverables to client executive management. • Apply knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project. • Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings. • Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients. • Provide consultative input during sales cycles related to secure architecture, recovery strategies, and solution feasibility. • Apply knowledge of AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal. • Assist Principal Consultants and Security Sales Specialists with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral. • Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of four security domains or three security solutions. • Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of in-practice service offerings, primarily services related to cyber resilience, secure recovery, and architecture design. • Enable more than one service capability. • Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards. • Lend support and mentorship to junior consultants and peers. • In addition to leading multiple projects, Managers will have direct reports and be responsible for annual reviews, ongoing mentoring, and guidance.