Director, Senior Technical Architect

Responsibilities:
- Shape architecture and technology strategy for ELT-level AI programs; translate ambiguous ambitions into clear target-state roadmaps.
- Define target/reference architectures, technical standards, integration patterns, and guardrails for enterprise scale.
- Align AI programs with enterprise platforms and standards; ensure reuse of shared capabilities (agent, data, memory, security) and integration with the platform spine.
- Act as trusted technical advisor to ELT/senior business and Digital leaders; deliver measurable outcomes.
- Architect responsible AI, automation, and modern engineering practices with governance, controls, and verification.
- Provide technical guidance/mentorship to engineering teams; raise standards through influence.
- Establish reliability, security, documentation, and operational-excellence expectations; ensure compliance, observability, and resilience.

Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s + 8 years (or Master’s + 7 years, or PhD + 5+ years).
- Proven experience defining architecture/technology strategy for significant AI/data-intensive programs or domains.
- Hands-on expertise in modern engineering, cloud, data/integration patterns, APIs, AI/ML services, security, and reliability.
- Experience serving as a design authority/technical advisor.
- Experience partnering with senior business/Digital stakeholders to shape technical direction.

Preferred:
- Regulated enterprise experience (compliance/privacy/security/risk).
- Experience architecting AI/agentic/automation and applying platform reuse.

Compensation/Benefits (as stated):
- Base salary: $162,900–$271,500; bonus target 20%; participation in long-term incentive.
- Comprehensive benefits incl. 401(k) match, paid leave, and medical/dental/vision.

Work Location: On-premise; on-site strongly preferred.