Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture (AI/ML)

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)

Position Type: Direct Hire / Perm

The Sr Director, Enterprise Architecture will work closely with the CTO to set vision, strategy, and provide overall leadership to the Architecture capability across the organization.

You'll focus on creating, developing and further enhancing the technology landscape by infusing next-gen technologies i.e., ML / AI / GenAI / Microservices / Cloud Computing with existing technologies and processes to drive critical business improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the ML / AI / GenAI transformation to drive business impact that differentiate capabilities and performance in the marketplace.
• Direct and inspire engineering leadership to design high-volume, high availability microservices in AWS, Azure, and GCP to meet the business requirements and drive tribe-level development methodology on a global scale.
• Provide thought leadership in the development and execution of enterprise and architecture domain-specific strategies, standards, and guidelines to define the Enterprise Architecture Target State and Roadmaps.
• Chair Enterprise Architecture Review Board ensuring that enterprise applications and solutions are designed, developed, and maintained in alignment with the organization's strategic goals, standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Provide architecture support to craft enterprise architecture (server, storage, networks etc.) for select solutions or applications (e.g., Snowflake, Data Lake, Salesforce) for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Identify, publish, and communicate strategic technology frameworks, principles, and roadmaps to be used throughout the IT organization to guide technology decisions and leverage efficiency opportunities.
• Partner with information security teams to incorporate and enforce technical security best practices into the designs of solutions across the company.

Requirements:

• Experience with AI, Machine Learning, Automation, Technology Modernization, Generative AI and a heavy Cloud background
• 7+ years in a management role leading a team of technical, software, and solution engineers/architects.
• Sophisticated understanding/exposure to overall API-Management concepts. Hands-on experience in building APIs, proxies, security practices, and policies development.
• Professional technical experience delivery software as part of a development team utilizing tools like React, Node.JS and/or Java in a cloud environment.
• Understanding and practical application of development methodologies, test automation, and continuous integration strategies.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification (preferred)