Director of Architecture and Engineering
About The Position
The Director of Architecture and Engineering is a senior leader and manager within Glenmede’s technology team. The role leads technologists—including managers, individual contributors, and third-party resources—responsible for foundational technology relied on by all business lines and employees. The role operates in a hybrid work environment, with three days per week in the Philadelphia, PA office. First-year priorities include envisioning modernization roadmaps for the CRM and internal transaction/workflow platform, designing the data foundation required for the firm’s artificial intelligence capabilities, and enabling data strategy and governance. The Director oversees architecture and technical roadmaps, establishes structured engineering delivery accountability, evaluates platform modernization options, and works with technology and business leaders on data governance. The role also develops team growth paths, documentation, cross-training, and an effective organization structure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
- 10 or more years of technology experience, including 5 or more years leading software development or platform engineering organizations.
- Experience leading a technology organization of 10 or more people.
- Strong hands-on architecture and engineering background across enterprise applications, cloud services, SaaS platforms, APIs, middleware, integrations, automation, data services, and document platforms.
- Experience evaluating third-party software and presenting buy-or-build recommendations supported by total cost of ownership analysis.
- Experience establishing data governance, including data ownership, authoritative definitions, lineage, and quality standards.
- Experience in financial services.
- Demonstrated ability to explain technology tradeoffs, cost, and risk to executives.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a bank, trust company, investment manager, or wealth management firm.
- Experience modernizing or replacing a legacy custom application in a regulated environment.
- Experience with Opus EDM, previously known as S&P Global EDM, IHS Markit EDM, and Markit EDM, or similar systems.
- Experience with Salesforce, including Financial Services Cloud, and Salesforce Architect-level experience such as Application or System Architecture certification.
- Experience delivering an enterprise document repository, data lakehouse, or knowledge graph in support of artificial intelligence capabilities.
- Experience with fiduciary transaction processing, including disbursements, transfers, and corporate actions.
Responsibilities
- Oversee target-state architecture and technical roadmaps for Salesforce, Gresham Opus EDM, the internally built transaction and workflow platform, and supporting data, middleware, and document storage services.
- Partner with colleagues responsible for vendor strategy, application management, cybersecurity, and infrastructure to maintain a cost-effective, risk-controlled technology ecosystem.
- Create structured accountability for delivery across engineering teams.
- Establish capacity planning, delivery commitments, and reporting metrics to support initiative planning and ongoing management.
- Lead analysis of the firm's internal transaction and workflow platform to determine its best long-term modernization path.
- Design and deliver the data foundation needed for the firm's artificial intelligence capabilities, including strategic decisions about an enterprise document repository and data lakehouse.
- Evaluate buy-versus-build options, comparing commercial products with custom development using a total cost of ownership framework.
- Partner with the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Product Officer, and business partners to establish data strategy and governance.
- Maintain authoritative definitions for core data elements and document lineage.
- Deliver stakeholder reporting and dashboards that enable business users to own their assigned data domains.
- Evaluate career growth paths and strengthen the organization through a talent strategy.
- Expand documentation and cross-training so expertise is shared and team members can grow into new roles and responsibilities.
- Review team roles and responsibilities to ensure a coherent organizational structure that enables team members to meet their annual goals.
Benefits
- Competitive health and welfare benefits, including company HSA contributions
- Numerous voluntary benefit choices
- Superior 401k match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Company subsidized commuter benefits
- Generous paid time off, including parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
