Sr. Director & Head of Architecture

📋 Description

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Define and strongly influence the execution of a target-state, AI-native architecture that supports both core software services and advanced AI Agentic behaviors.
• Architectural Governance: Establish global standards for architecture consistency, ensuring all platform components maximize reuse and align with the long-term technology roadmap.
• AI First thinking: Oversee the architectural design of complex AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls. Ensure that these are integrated into a cohesive strategy and implementation.
• Customer Centricity: Everything we do is to serve our customers. Understanding the customers and the business is the only way to build strategies for it’s success.
• Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.
• Security & Compliance: Define and create standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to mitigate data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, building products and platforms with at least 5 years in a senior leadership or directorial capacity managing Architecture teams.
• Extensive Cloud Expertise: Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, especially AWS.
• AI First Product & Tech Strategies: Experience with building AI Native products and technologies.
• Strategic Communication: Demonstrated ability to gain buy-in for large-scale technical shifts from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams.
• Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations within a rapidly growing or unstructured corporate environment.
• Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

🎁 Benefits

• Generous paid parental leave
• Flexible time off
• Spending accounts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Sabbatical after 5 years
• Equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity