Director Systems Architecture - Digital Products
About The Position
Most people know Penske for our big yellow trucks, but we are also a data company, collecting and analyzing billions of datapoints each year through over 300+ advanced analytical models. We integrate insights from our fleet, maintenance operations, and logistics networks to provide customers with a complete view of their supply chains, anticipating issues, optimizing resources, and delivering reliable outcomes. Penske continues to invest in and grow its digital products, seeking talent to advance and lead the industry. The key to success is our people, working on cool projects to develop technology solutions that keep the company and customers moving forward. This role is within the Digital Products organization, leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting digital platforms and SaaS-based solutions. It oversees key technical functions including infrastructure engineering, data platform engineering, and integration engineering, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and optimized for performance and uptime. The Director partners closely with Enterprise IT teams that own core system functionality, requiring strong architectural awareness and the ability to influence without direct ownership. This position serves as a critical connector between digital product delivery and enterprise platforms, ensuring seamless integration, operational stability, and continuous optimization of systems supporting customer-facing and internal digital experiences. Success in this role requires a balance of strategic architecture leadership, hands-on technical depth, and strong people leadership, with a focus on driving system reliability, performance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, always-on environment.
Requirements
- Strategic architecture leadership
- Hands-on technical depth
- Strong people leadership
- Focus on driving system reliability, performance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, always-on environment
- Experience leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team
- Experience supporting digital platforms and SaaS-based solutions
- Experience overseeing infrastructure engineering
- Experience overseeing data platform engineering
- Experience overseeing integration engineering
- Strong architectural awareness
- Ability to influence without direct ownership
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Digital Products and Enterprise IT to translate business strategy into scalable system and architecture solutions
- Define and maintain a technical systems model aligned to digital product and SaaS strategies
- Establish and evolve architecture roadmaps, including integration patterns, platform capabilities, and shared services
- Provide architectural guidance across infrastructure, data, and integration domains to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
- Act as a key liaison between Digital Product teams and Enterprise IT to ensure alignment, reuse, and scalability
- Lead architecture and solution design efforts across digital platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
- Guide engineering teams on best practices for system design, integration, and application architecture
- Partner with teams to troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions
- Drive standardization and governance across systems while enabling flexibility for product innovation
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise tollgates, standards, and security requirements
- Own system reliability, uptime, and performance across digital product platforms
- Establish and drive strategies for monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue resolution
- Continuously identify opportunities to optimize system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Lead efforts to minimize downtime and improve end-user experience across digital systems
- Promote a culture of operational excellence and accountability
- Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and DevSecOps across teams
- Partner with engineering, operations, and security teams to improve automation and reduce manual processes
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, platforms, and deployment strategies (cloud, hybrid, etc.)
- Drive continuous improvement in Agile practices, engineering standards, and delivery efficiency
- Ensure alignment with enterprise tools, platforms, and technology strategies
- Lead and develop a team that includes infrastructure, data platform, and integration engineers
- Build a high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive team environment focused on innovation and accountability
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members to grow technical and leadership capabilities
- Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and development plans
- Manage vendor and partner relationships as needed
- Oversee delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives supporting digital product platforms
- Ensure clear project planning, prioritization, and execution aligned to business objectives
- Drive accountability for timelines, quality, and outcomes across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Partner with product and business leaders to align technical solutions with customer and operational needs
- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline processes and improve delivery efficiency
- Define and lead application and system performance testing strategies
- Establish best practices for performance, scalability, and reliability across platforms
- Partner with QA and engineering teams to ensure consistent testing frameworks and standards
- Identify and address performance risks proactively
- Other projects as assigned by leadership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
