Technical Director
About The Position
The Technical Director combines software engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and FinOps. This role leads multidisciplinary engineering teams, shapes modern software solutions, and helps enterprise clients build secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient digital platforms. The position is open to remote work in the U.S.; Austin or elsewhere in Texas is preferred. The Technical Director guides technical talent and engineering organizations, translates client business and product objectives into architecture strategies and delivery plans, and leads the design and delivery of software and infrastructure solutions. The role also advances modernization, cloud transformation, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and FinOps capabilities, while connecting technical decisions to business value and cost. The position requires client-facing consulting experience, broad technical expertise, commercial judgment, and executive communication skills.
Requirements
- Client-facing technology consulting experience focused on requirements analysis, technical strategy, and solution delivery.
- Extensive software-development experience, including leadership of cross-functional engineering organizations.
- Expertise in application architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of public and hybrid cloud architecture, including compute, network, storage, containers, security, resilience, and operations.
- Experience leading application modernization, cloud migration, platform engineering, infrastructure transformation, and DevSecOps programs.
- Experience designing and operating FinOps programs aligned with FinOps Foundation principles.
- Commercial solutioning experience encompassing delivery estimation, business-case development, and cost modeling.
- Excellent written, verbal, customer-facing, and executive communication skills.
- Experience leading technical organizations of 15 or more people.
- Strong hands-on foundation in software development, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
- Experience managing the full software-development lifecycle from discovery and design through deployment and operations.
- Expertise in modern programming ecosystems, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, and cloud-native architecture.
- Five or more years of public-cloud architecture experience.
- Proven leadership of complex application modernization, digital-product, infrastructure, or cloud-transformation programs.
- Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and organize multidisciplinary teams to deliver them.
- Knowledge of agile product delivery, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, IT service management, and engineering-performance metrics.
- Experience implementing FinOps practices, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and governance.
- Strong commercial judgment, organizational leadership, coaching ability, and executive presence.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop software engineers, architects, engineering managers, platform engineers, infrastructure specialists, DevSecOps practitioners, and FinOps professionals.
- Set engineering goals, delivery expectations, technical standards, and performance metrics.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop technical talent through regular feedback and career planning.
- Translate customer business and product objectives into architecture strategies, technical roadmaps, and delivery plans.
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and cost-efficient software solutions.
- Own application architecture across cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
- Lead application modernization, legacy decomposition, cloud migration, platform engineering, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
- Establish engineering practices for coding, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Implement engineering governance covering design reviews, code quality, technical debt, release management, and architecture assurance.
- Design and mature FinOps capabilities encompassing budgeting, forecasting, allocation, showback or chargeback, optimization, and governance.
- Connect software and infrastructure decisions to cloud consumption, business value, unit economics, and total cost of ownership.
- Perform technical due diligence, identify delivery and operational risks, and recommend mitigation options.
- Collaborate with product, UX, application, data, infrastructure, security, finance, procurement, and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
- Own multidisciplinary delivery plans when required and ensure predictable outcomes.
- Promote reusable platforms, automation, tools, and engineering standards across the organization.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation (12–25 days depending on employee grade), company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada).
- Retirement savings plans, such as a 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
