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This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions that advance client goals.\nAs a senior member of the team, this individual independently leads technical client relationships, facilitates discovery and technical workshops, and drives engineering best practices across projects. They also help evaluate and advance the agency's AI-enabled development capabilities to improve delivery, strengthen client solutions, and increase team effectiveness.\nSavas is a technology-agnostic agency with an AI-first mindset, and success in this role requires curiosity, adaptability, and the ability to work confidently across multiple platforms and frameworks. 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