Sr. Director of Technology

What You'll Do

• Enterprise Design Authority: Own the enterprise architecture strategy across application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security domains. Establish and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and technology decisions across all value streams.
• Architecture Oversight: Lead the architecture review process through a tiered model - domain architects handle day-to-day reviews while you focus on significant design decisions, new technology introductions, and cross-domain strategy.
• Engineering Enablement: Oversee the Director of Engineering Enablement and the engineering functions including Principal Engineers, Tech Leads, DevOps/Platform, SRE/Observability, and UX. Set engineering standards and ensure consistent execution across all streams.
• Vendor Technical Partnership: Serve as the primary technical counterpart to vendor’s Sr Delivery Lead. Ensure dedicated resource model resources meet quality and performance expectations. Manage architecture resources from both strategic delivery partners through a unified review board.
• Microservice Strategy: Drive the architecture redesign and microservice decomposition strategy. Define handoff standards for new microservices entering production. Ensure every service is designed for A/B failover
• Institutional Knowledge: Build and retain deep system knowledge within the architecture and engineering teams. Reduce single-points-of-failure through documentation, cross-training, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• DR & Infrastructure Strategy: Own the long-term infrastructure diversification strategy. Ensure disaster recovery capabilities meet the RTO business requirement.

What We're Looking For

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 8+ years in software engineering or architecture roles, with 3+ years in a technical leadership position.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise architecture for complex, multi-system environments.
• Experience managing both onshore and distributed technical teams in a dedicated resource model or strategic partnership model.
• Deep expertise in application architecture, API/integration design, data architecture, and cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred).
• Experience with microservice architecture, event-driven design, and monolith decomposition strategies.
• Strong understanding of insurance or financial services technology (rating engines, policy administration, claims, billing).
• Experience establishing architecture review boards, ADR processes, and design governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical credibility.
• Excellent communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for executive audiences.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, SRE, and observability is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated player/coach leadership style - you set the strategy AND roll up your sleeves to execute. You’re comfortable building the first version of a process, template, or deliverable yourself rather than waiting for your team to be in place.