Senior Director – Enterprise Architecture

Goosehead Insurance • Westlake, OH

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About The Position

Goosehead Insurance is seeking a Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture with strong full-stack development and Salesforce experience to lead the company’s architecture strategy and implementation. This role focuses on creating and maintaining architecture standards and roadmaps that enhance technical infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on service-oriented and event-driven architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate will work with IT leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant architecture solutions spanning front-end, back-end, Salesforce, and cloud environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, or enterprise architecture, including significant experience leading architecture for distributed, high-scale platforms.
• 10+ years of people leadership experience managing senior architects, principal engineers, or comparable senior technical individual contributors.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define architecture strategy, roadmaps, and execution plans for complex product portfolios.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, decision frameworks, standards, and review processes that improve consistency and delivery quality across multiple teams.
• Excellent leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and organizational influencing skills.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud-native architecture, including Agentic AI frameworks and design, AI-assisted code generation, service-oriented APIs, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, SRE, resiliency patterns, observability, and security-by-design.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural direction for complex data-intensive and transaction-oriented systems with high requirements for performance, availability, and scale.
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, identity, integration, and data architecture patterns relevant to large-scale enterprise and product environments.
• Proven ability in portfolio management; evaluate tradeoffs across build/buy/customize/deprecate strategies and to communicate technical decisions effectively to executive, product, and engineering audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Background in insurance and high-regulation environments helpful but not required

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy that aligns with business goals
• Define and enforce architecture best practices, standards, conventions, and guidelines for technology practices definitions across diverse technology teams. These practices include software development with skill-assisted AI, data architecture, machine learning and Agentic AI
• Partner with senior leadership to evaluate technology trends and identify business opportunities that support the company’s objectives and promote innovation across our portfolio and technology stack.
• Lead the enterprise architecture design and implementation of full-stack development of modern service APIs
• Lead the design and roadmap definition of the migration of mission-critical enterprise solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements and technical standards for data, infrastructure, and application architecture. This includes integrations with key partners as well as internal and franchise-facing systems
• Establish governance frameworks for technology decisions that include business stakeholders, owning the non-functional system requirements across the technology portfolio
• Evaluate and recommend tools, platforms, and technologies to drive continuous improvement across the business
• Consider and design for regulatory, privacy, legal, and industry requirements in all solutions
• Collaborate with IT, data, and security teams to align architectural solutions with the company’s technology stack and security requirements
• Work with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, and operations to understand business needs and translate them into effective, scalable technical solutions.
• Serve as a technical liaison, advocating for architectural principles and defining and promoting best practices across all departments.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of enterprise architects and technical leads, with a focus on rigor, scalability, security, performance, availability, observability, and Agentic AI.
• Provide coaching and guidance on architectural best practices, project management, and service-oriented API development to enhance team capabilities.
• Recruit, train, and retain top talent, fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and high performance.
• Manage offshore resources with diligence
• Stay current with industry trends in AI and working with LLMs to create predictive models and generate code with human-in-the-loop process, machine learning cloud platforms, and architecture frameworks, ensuring Goosehead Insurance remains at the forefront of technology.
• Identify and implement new tools, technologies, and practices to maintain a cutting-edge architecture environment.
• Promote an architecture-centric culture across the technology organization and within the broader Goosehead business

Benefits

• High quality voluntary health, vision, disability, life, and dental insurance programs
• 401K Matching Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave
• Corporate sponsored programs to enhance employee physical, financial, mental, and emotional wellness
• Financial Solution Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior