Director, Technology Architecture, Design & Delivery

Focus Financial Partners•Saint Louis, MO

About The Position

The Director, Technology Architecture, Design & Delivery leads the Technology Architecture function within Infrastructure & Operations (I&O). This role partners with I&O Service Owners to design and deliver scalable, secure, standards-aligned infrastructure and integration capabilities that support the firm’s long-term technology strategy. The role owns and operates the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and provides clear technology architecture guidance, standards, and partner/technology recommendations to ensure solutions are supportable, compliant, and built for scale. This role is expected to directly enable delivery across multiple Technology OKRs by translating strategy into executable architecture decisions, delivery-ready designs, and measurable outcomes, while maintaining transparency of progress, risks, and dependencies through standard delivery governance practices.

Requirements

Senior-level experience in technology architecture across infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, and integration domains, producing scalable and supportable designs.
Experience building and operating an architecture governance forum (e.g., ARB) that balances delivery speed with risk reduction and supportability.
Demonstrated ability to define and enforce technology standards, patterns, diagrams, and repository practices.
Proven capability assessing and guiding partner/technology selection based on standards alignment, security/risk, resiliency, and operational support model readiness.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Technology Integration and Cybersecurity Engineering & Risk Management to deliver consolidated, secure, standards-aligned outcomes.
Ability to partner with the Technology PMO and align work to PMO oversight practices, including consistent project tracking and status visibility in Asana.

Responsibilities

Partner with Service Owners to Design and Deliver Strategy-Aligned Capabilities
Formal Partnership with Technology Integration (M&A and Consolidation)
Formal Partnership with Cybersecurity Engineering & Risk Management
Formal Partnership with Technology PMO (Launch Enablement, Oversight & Reporting)
Own and Operate the Architecture Review Board (ARB)
Define and maintain technology architecture standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures for infrastructure and integration solutions (including required diagramming and repository practices).
Govern architecture exceptions through documented review, approval/rejection, and explicit risk acceptance where appropriate.
Develop, maintain, and govern technology architecture policies that drive adherence to approved standards, patterns, and reference designs including defining compliance expectations, monitoring/validating adherence, and managing exceptions through documented ARB review, decisions, and assigned remediation actions.
Partner and Technology Guidance (Selection, Fit, and Standards Alignment)
Delivery Enablement and Operational Readiness Alignment
Resiliency and DR Alignment