Sr. Director & Head of Architecture

About The Position:
As the Sr. Director & Head of Architecture at G-P, you will be the visionary leader responsible for defining and executing the long-term technical strategy for our global products and AI platforms and influence technical decisions across the company. This is a high-impact, executive-level role that bridges the gap between complex engineering execution and high-level business objectives. You will oversee the evolution of our cloud-native ecosystem, ensuring our architecture is scalable, secure, and infused with cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities.

Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will lead a high-performing team of Architects. You will work in close lockstep with Product Management, Engineering to harmonize technology decisions across the organization, ensuring our investment in technology translates directly into market-leading customer experiences

What You Will Do:

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Define and strongly influence the execution of a target-state, AI-native architecture that supports both core software services and advanced AI Agentic behaviors.
• Architectural Governance: Establish global standards for architecture consistency, ensuring all platform components maximize reuse and align with the long-term technology roadmap.
• AI First thinking: Oversee the architectural design of complex AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls. Ensure that these are integrated into a cohesive strategy and implementation.
• Customer Centricity: Everything we do is to serve our customers. Understanding the customers and the business is the only way to build strategies for it’s success. 
• Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.
• Security & Compliance: Define and create standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to mitigate data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Technical Trade-offs: Act as a coach and decision maker with technical teams and business stakeholders, translating complex technical trade-offs when creating business impact.
• Innovation & Research: Serve as the ultimate "sounding board" for introducing new technologies, 3rd-party integrations, and open-source solutions to keep the platform at the forefront of the industry.
• Reliability & Performance: Ensure system and infrastructure architecture results in high reliability, low latency, and minimal outages as a primary measure of organizational success.
• Culture Builder: Help create a strong culture of innovation and technical excellence across the organization.

What We Are Looking For:  

Minimum Requirements: 

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, building products and platforms with at least 5 years in a senior leadership or directorial capacity managing Architecture teams.
• Extensive Cloud Expertise: Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, especially AWS.
• AI First Product & Tech Strategies : Experience  with building AI Native products and technologies. 
• Strategic Communication: Demonstrated ability to gain buy-in for large-scale technical shifts from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams.
• Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations within a rapidly growing or "unstructured" corporate environment.
• Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.