Director, Enterprise Architecture

Main Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Enterprise Architecture team aligned to HERE’s platform and product strategy.
Contribute to the advancement of architectural and technical leadership practices across HERE R&D Enterprise & Platform Architecture.
Define and maintain enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
Ensure architectural alignment across Compute Foundation services, platform components, and product-facing capabilities.
Drive architectural consistency across developer platforms, shared services, APIs, and internal tooling.
Own enterprise reference architectures, standards, and guardrails for platform and AI capabilities; partner with Solution Architects and delivery teams who design and implement project-specific solutions using these patterns.
AI & Data Architecture Leadership
Lead architectural strategy for AI/ML and Generative AI across HERE, including:
Data platforms and pipelines
Model integration and inference services
Model lifecycle management
Responsible AI, governance, and compliance
Define reference architectures and reusable patterns for AI-enabled workflows, agentic systems, and automation
Partner with platform engineering, security, privacy, and data teams to ensure AI systems are secure, scalable, compliant, and observable
Establish patterns for agent orchestration, tool access governance, human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and security protections (e.g., prompt injection and data exfiltration controls) for action-taking AI systems
Define and govern the end-to-end AI/GenAI lifecycle, including LLMOps/MLOps, evaluation, observability, incident response, and model/prompt/version controls
Define enterprise patterns for retrieval and knowledge systems (RAG), including content curation, lineage, freshness, semantic access controls, and integration with systems of record.
Partner with FinOps to define cost attribution and budgets for AI workloads (token economics, model routing, usage caps), ensuring predictable unit economics at scale.

Governance & Decision Making

Define the EA engagement model, decision thresholds, and governance routes to ensure architecture accelerates delivery while managing risk.
Chair or actively participate in architecture review boards and technical governance forums.
Guide build/buy/partner decisions for major platforms, AI capabilities, and foundational technologies.
Balance speed and innovation with long-term sustainability, cost (CPM), and operational efficiency.

Metrics, Outcomes & Continuous Improvement

Define and track key metrics such as:
Platform and service adoption
Architecture health and technical debt
AI utilization and productivity impact
Cost efficiency (CPM) and operational scalability
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance developer experience, delivery speed, and platform reliability.

Strategic Leadership

Strategic leadership role influencing large, business-critical platforms and shared services.
Makes decisions impacting large, strategic products or small sets of related products.
Ensures decisions are cascaded through impacted engineering teams and product owners.
Drives fundamental innovation that may result in entirely new products or significant changes to existing products.
Scope Leadership role with people management responsibilities.
Manages headcount, costs of team and operating costs of associated tools/services.
Accountable for architecture direction across multiple domains and platforms.
Influences significant technology investments and long-term platform evolution.

Decision Making

Guided by group strategy, has broad impact on the results of a major or strategic area, small sub-group, or region.
Makes and governs architectural decisions impacting multiple HERE internal services, applications and platforms.
Ensures architectural decisions are cascaded to architects, engineers, and product teams and executed effectively.
Drives foundational innovation that enables new AI-driven capabilities and platform differentiation.
Acts as a primary architectural advocate in portfolio planning and strategic initiatives.

Who are you?

15+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12+ years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8+ years experience; or equivalent experience.
Leading AI transformation and evolving Enterprise Architecture into a high impact function.
Defining and executing enterprise-scale architecture strategies.
Strong background in cloud platforms, distributed systems, DevOps, and platform engineering.
Demonstrated leadership in AI/ML and Generative AI architectures, including governance and responsible AI practices.
Experience working closely with product management, engineering, security, finance, and operations.
Ability to influence senior technical and business leaders through clear, pragmatic, and outcome-focused architecture.
Experience operating in large-scale, global, multi-product environments.

Compensation & Benefits

The expected base salary range for this position is $195,000 to $270,000 per year. Actual compensation will be based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
This role is also eligible for a target annual performance bonus, based on company and individual performance.
Life at HERE includes a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health and well-being, including:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement savings plans
Paid time off and leave programs.

About Us

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us. Watch Video