Technical Director

Ampcus Inc.•Austin, TX

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Director combines technology leadership, enterprise architecture, and customer engagement to develop and deliver enterprise solutions. This business-oriented technology leader engages with customers, understands their business requirements, and designs solutions aligned with enterprise technology portfolios. The role calls for a background in technology consulting, enterprise architecture, public cloud, infrastructure, networking, applications, and service delivery. Hybrid architecture, cybersecurity, and FinOps experience are desirable. The Technical Director leads and develops a team of technical consultants while providing architectural oversight and supporting customer engagements from requirements gathering through solution design and implementation. The role assesses customer technology environments and processes, recommends improvements, leads change initiatives, and ensures solutions balance business objectives, technical feasibility, operational resilience, security, and cost efficiency. The position is remote in the United States, with candidates located in or near Austin, Texas, preferred. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or Green Card holders.

Requirements

Client-facing technology consulting experience, particularly in business requirements gathering, analysis, and technology enablement.
Demonstrated enterprise architecture design and consulting expertise across multiple technology domains, including infrastructure, networking, public cloud platforms, and applications.
Experience managing business requirements gathering and architecture design activities as part of customer engagement teams.
Ability to analyze technology environments and processes and recommend strategies to improve service delivery, reduce costs, and prevent operational issues.
Experience delivering transformational projects and change programs for enterprise clients.
Strong commercial and solution-design capabilities, including developing solutions from limited information and assumptions while maintaining cost-model considerations.
Experience designing, implementing, and managing FinOps programs based on FinOps Foundation principles.
Experience building and managing an Enterprise Architecture team.
Strong knowledge of cloud and enterprise architectures, virtual infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, security, compliance, and multi-tenant environments.
Familiarity with next-generation collaboration, end-user computing, backup, disaster avoidance and recovery, and IT operations.
Strong public cloud expertise, including at least 5 years of architectural experience.
Experience managing direct teams of 15 or more individuals.
Significant familiarity with at least five technology or business domains, such as cloud platforms, security, infrastructure, technology strategy, and business strategy.
Proven experience leading large, complex technical cloud initiatives.
Ability to design complex architectures and identify the technical roles required to deliver solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, organizational, and customer-facing skills.
Strong leadership, professional credibility, self-awareness, and social acumen.
Proven ability to lead large teams of highly skilled technical consultants.
Strong technical presence and a track record of successful technology service delivery.
Excellent stakeholder management and customer relationship skills.
Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical solutions.
Commitment to customer satisfaction, professionalism, and continuous improvement.
U.S. citizenship or Green Card holder status.

Nice To Haves

Experience in hybrid cloud architecture and cybersecurity.
Knowledge of cloud financial management, cost optimization, and FinOps governance.
Experience with cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps practices, and enterprise transformation programs.
Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, security, compliance, and operational governance.
Experience shaping commercial solutions and supporting complex customer engagements.
Candidates located in or near Austin, Texas, are preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of technical consultants, establishing goals and expectations and aligning work with organizational performance metrics.
Mentor team members, provide technical guidance, and support career development.
Build and manage the team through hiring, regular feedback, performance management, and people-development processes.
Engage with customers to define enterprise solutions and connect business requirements with technology capabilities.
Assess customer technology environments, organizational structures, and processes to identify optimization opportunities and recommend industry best practices.
Recommend and lead change initiatives to improve operational efficiency through cloud and DevSecOps operating models.
Provide architectural oversight and quality assurance for technology programs.
Collaborate with customer teams to shape solutions and advance them through design and implementation.
Work with technology, application, security, and business stakeholders to gather, validate, and document requirements according to agreed plans.
Develop and manage delivery plans and, when required, assume delivery management responsibilities for teams comprising multiple resources.
Conduct due diligence on proposed architectures, identify execution and operational risks, and recommend mitigation options.
Collaborate with other technology groups to promote standardized tools, practices, and architecture principles across global environments.
Conduct impact assessments of major proposed changes to customer processes and technology landscapes.
Maintain strong working relationships with customer enterprise architecture teams and other key stakeholders.
Ensure solutions balance business objectives, technical feasibility, operational resilience, security, and cost efficiency.