Senior Director, Architecture

Role Overview

We are seeking a leader for the Architecture team to lead the technical architecture strategy across the organization and drive the evolution of scalable, secure, and modern platforms. This leader will partner closely with engineering, product, security, and executive teams to define long term technology direction, establish architectural standards, and accelerate innovation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong business judgment, organizational influence, and an AI-first mindset that shapes how products are built, operated, and experienced.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise and product architecture strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead architectural decisions across cloud, platform, application, data, security, and integration domains.
• Establish architecture principles, governance, reference architectures, and engineering standards.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, APIs, and data architectures.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Champion developer productivity, platform engineering, automation, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and translate innovation into practical business value.
• Lead technical due diligence efforts for acquisitions, including platform evaluation, architecture assessment, scalability analysis, security posture review, technical debt assessment, and integration planning.
• Partner with executive leadership, corporate development, and product teams to assess acquisition targets and integration strategies.
• Build and mentor a high-performing architecture organization and technical leadership community.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on technology investments, roadmaps, and strategic initiatives.
• Influence cross-functional teams through technical leadership, communication, and organizational alignment.
• Embed AI-first thinking into platform, product, and engineering strategies, including the use of AI-assisted development, intelligence.