Full time
Sidley Austin LLP
Chicago, IL
The Software Engineering Senior Manager is a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operating the firm's cloud-native automation platform. This role requires deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture, distributed systems, and software engineering. This is a technical leadership role first, people management second. The ideal candidate comes from a cloud engineering, platform engineering, or full-stack development background with DevOps expertise. Duties and Responsibilities: Design and evolve the distributed system architecture for the cloud-native automation platform, including Azure Container Apps, Service Bus, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Blob Storage Design event-driven architectures using Azure Service Bus for high-volume asynchronous processing Optimize platform performance, cost, and operational complexity through architectural improvements Lead .NET backend development including ASP.NET Core APIs, CQRS pattern with MediatR, Entity...

