Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture

Vertafore•Denver, CO

1d•$220,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India. 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.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in application development, software & solution architecture with increasing responsibilities, with at least 5 of those managing teams of 5+ architects or engineers.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
Prior experience in SaaS platforms generating over $100M in software revenue
A passion for mentoring and building strong technical leaders.
Demonstrated ability to transform teams and technology in a rapidly growing environment.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects using Agile development practices.
Experience with Continuous Delivery tools and DevOps practices.
Experience with Data Technologies: Spark, Tableau, AWS EMR, S3 and other AWS Data Tech.
Experience with Java, Python SQL, Ruby, .Net, C++
Experience with Serverless & microservices architecture.
Experience with Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
Strong API design and implementation skills.
Strong presentation skills and written & spoken communication skills.
Abreast of the latest and greatest technology advancements in web and native mobile platforms.
Understanding of Big Data architectures, data science / Machine Learning platforms and Business Intelligence Visualization tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the implementation and integration of business systems across the Accounting, Supply Chain and Manufacturing domains is a plus.
Experience with physical retail technology solutions is a plus.

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.
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