Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture

Vertafore•Denver, CO

2d•$220,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Are you ready to disrupt an industry? We are looking for an experienced thought leader with a passion for delivering forward thinking solutions around enterprise architecture. Reporting directly to our CTO you will be tasked with influencing all aspects of our SaaS based business delivering innovative designs to take Vertafore to the next level. You will often wear multiple hats and get a holistic, multi-faceted career-building experience working with top talent.

Responsibilities

Collaborates with the CTO, members of the Technology Leadership team, Principal Engineers and Business Stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy aligned with Company’s company objectives.
Works with various architects around the business, partners, and our PE firm in delivering successful strategy, planning and implementation of technical capabilities and platforms.
Engage and develop relationships with leaders across the global organization to understand functional business needs and identify opportunities to introduce new technical solutions.
Aligns closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate, derisk roadmaps for our consumer facing experiences and tools.
Drives thought leadership within the organization with presentations and architectural models that show how the current and future technology needs of the organization align to our company mission and the growth of our business.
Define, maintain and evangelize the company’s current and target platform strategy with reference architectures, business-system capability map, solution integration requirements and deployment guidelines.
Drives adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis and ROI.
Create technical requirements and global architecture to govern the security, scalability, sustainability, cost and overall quality of our infrastructure, systems, content and data.
While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on our production systems on a consistent basis, a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help our teams with technical issues
Attract, hire & retain highly skilled architects.
Assessing skills & building career development plans for direct reports.
Performance management through alignment/setting of objectives/deadlines for direct reports and cross-functional teams.
Acts as an expert advisor, coach and mentor across the technology organization on latest architecture principles and practices.
Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges
Other duties as assigned