Director of Technology and Architecture
Core
Define and own the multi-year target architecture for a wide-ranging product suite, ensuring coherence, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency across on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS deployments.
Role type
Director of Technology and Architecture (Senior IC + Leadership)
Builds
Enterprise financial services products (fraud detection, compliance, risk management) deployed across heterogeneous environments
Domain
Financial Services / Enterprise Software Architecture
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Multi-year architectural strategy, cross-cutting trade-off resolution, platform and shared-services design, build-vs-buy analysis, abstraction and packaging modeling, reference architecture definition, security-by-design, non-functional requirements definition
Preferred skills
Financial services regulatory knowledge, cloud-native design, modernization leadership
Technologies
Cloud platforms (public/private), SaaS, on-premise infrastructure, identity management, data integration, observability tooling
Responsibilities
Define multi-year target architecture balancing product autonomy with shared platform leverage; Establish architecture strategy for diverse deployment models; Drive platform and shared-services strategy to reduce fragmentation; Advise executives on technology bets and roadmaps; Design abstractions for heterogeneous environments; Establish reference architectures for deployment and release cadence; Embed security, privacy, and compliance into architecture by design; Define guardrails for availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with executive advisory role