Sr Director Architecture and AI Enablement

Florida Blue (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida)•Jacksonville, FL

8h•$180,000 - $292,500

About The Position

This critical leadership role sets technology strategy and architecture direction for Engagement Technology. The position drives cloud migration, architectural simplification, and AI adoption across products and engineering practice, partnering with Enterprise Architecture, the AI COE, Data COE, Security, and peer engineering leaders. The successful candidate is credible with engineers and persuasive with executives. The role leads and grows a high-caliber team, mentors senior engineers and architects, and serves as a member of the Engagement Technology leadership team. It also owns AI SDLC transformation and cloud migration strategy and execution, while establishing architecture governance and influencing technical direction across the organization.

Requirements

7+ years of related work experience in software engineering and architecture, including enterprise-wide scope for the Senior Director level.
Deep hands-on technical skills across web and mobile, API and event-driven integration, iPaaS, identity, and cloud-native architecture.
Demonstrated ownership of target-state architecture in a multi-product environment.
Experience leading cloud migration and modernization programs.
Practical experience applying AI to the software development lifecycle.
Proven ability to influence across Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Infrastructure organizations.
Credibility with engineers and persuasiveness with executives.
5+ years of direct supervisory or management experience.
Related bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
15+ years of software engineering and architecture, including enterprise-wide scope for the Senior Director level.
5+ years leading architecture or technical transformation at scale.
10+ years of hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), including cloud-native, web/mobile, API and event integration, iPaaS, and identity.
Healthcare, insurance, or other regulated industry experience.
AI/ML platform and GenAI solution architecture experience.
Experience with AWS Bedrock and Snowflake Cortex.
FinOps practices and cloud cost management.
Business or platform transition and integration experience.

Responsibilities

Drive target-state architecture across product, platform, and integration domains; lead solution architecture for major initiatives; simplify architecture and retire legacy systems; establish architecture governance and design reviews; translate business strategy into technical direction.
Serve as the primary interface to Enterprise Architecture; partner with AI Engineering, Data, Security, and Infrastructure COEs; represent the group in enterprise architecture forums; and build relationships with peer leaders to secure alignment.
Own AI SDLC transformation within Engagement Technology; select, pilot, and scale AI engineering tools; establish standards, guardrails, and secure usage patterns; define and track adoption and productivity measures; and drive enablement, training, and change management.
Own the cloud migration strategy and execution roadmap; define migration patterns and target cloud architecture; partner with Infrastructure, Security, and FinOps; and provide executive visibility into progress and cost.
Lead and grow a high-caliber team, mentor senior engineers and architects, and participate as a member of the Engagement Technology leadership team.
Travel occasionally to multiple locations for work, including meetings, events, and conferences.