Director of Architecture

EagleView

2d•Remote

About The Position

Eagleview, a leader in aerial imagery and derived geospatial content, is hiring a Director of Architecture as part of the Global Engineering organization. The Director will lead a global group of Enterprise and Solution architects in the design, governance, and evolution of Eagleview’s enterprise architecture. This is a hands-on managerial and functional role that will partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and Operations. You will define architectural standards & reference architectures, identify & drive next-generation technology frameworks, and govern the evolution of our overall technology footprint. Our technology ecosystem spans continental-scale geospatial content acquisition, production, and distribution capabilities as well as SaaS, DaaS, and Agentic go-to-market capabilities. This role requires deep expertise and broad experience in guiding the evolution of at-scale geospatial content production, data quality & distribution architectures that are performant & highly available to serve our breadth of geospatial content customers spanning virtually all industries. This is a full-time, remote role, with a salary range of $177,200-$244,000, with bonus potential.

Requirements

10+ years as a hands-on Enterprise or Platform Architect in a technology company setting with 15+ total years of technology delivery experience.
3+ years leading an architecture function including people management.
Track record of driving architectural transformation while establishing strong architectural governance models preferably in a large geospatial platform organization.
Expertise in cloud-based data platform evolution, at-scale geospatial content production & distribution, event-driven architecture transformation, and/or data quality framework implementation will be critical to your success.
Experience playing a lead Architect role on multiple high-volume SaaS, DaaS, and Agentic technology deployments is required, preferably in the Geospatial domain.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other STEM field, Master’s degree preferred.
Excellent written, diagrammatic, and verbal skills.
Ability to balance strategic vision with practical and realistic architectural evolution.
Architectural governance process design and implementation.
Team and personnel leadership of both direct and indirect reports.
Hands-on PoC and/or prototyping capabilities.
Demonstrated geospatial domain expertise, preferably in the context of large-scale geospatial content production and platforms.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the enterprise technology architecture strategy, principles, standards and evolutionary roadmap supporting long-term business outcomes.
Act as a trusted advisor to R&D leadership, influencing short- and long-term strategic technology investment decisions while stewarding mission critical architectural evolutions.
Passionately promote and demonstrate a culture of accountability, continuous innovation, and measured risk taking across the architecture function.
Directly manage and lead our existing team of Platform & Enterprise Architects while indirectly governing our global staff of local Solution & System Architects.
Identify architectural talent gaps and mentor rising and high-potential architectural talent across the R&D organization.
Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and ADR best practices including the creation and stewardship of the organization’s reference architecture(s).
Define and deploy an architectural governance model that helps unify our technology decision making and institutionalizes strong adherence to architectural guidelines.
Lead architecture review boards that drive adoption of both logical and physical architectural standards while ensuring compliance with security best practices.
Partner with Cloud Engineering to help guide the scaling and optimization of cloud infrastructure while driving advancements in automated software deployment pipelines.
Guide the evolution of key cloud platform capabilities including observability, cost management, API governance, intelligent provisioning, and storage optimization.
Provide requirements for Internal Developer Platform (IDP) evolution to improve developer productivity, increase release velocity, and ensure high initial delivered quality.
Partner with the Head of AI to accelerate the deployment of advanced CV/ML and Agentic AI platform capabilities.
Help lead the R&D organization’s pivot to a human-in-the-loop AI-driven software factory model.
Actively guide the annual technology roadmapping efforts across our application, distribution, and content factory ecosystems in partnership with senior R&D leaders.
Relentlessly pursue an API-first, event-based architectural evolution across the overall technology landscape.
Partner with the IT organization to guide the evolution of highly reliable data integration architectures that facilitate billing, CRM, and other enterprise IT capabilities.