Senior Director, Architecture – Innovation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate a multi-tiered organization of architecture leaders and senior architects throughout CBS

• Establish standards for technical excellence, customer impact, pace, accountability, and executive presence

• Attract, nurture, retain, and develop architectural talent along with succession opportunities

• Create architectural viewpoints encompassing AI, data, security, governance, integration, platform strategy, emerging technologies, and digital experiences

• Convert technical advancements into frameworks, reference architectures, patterns, and recommendations

• Act as a trusted architecture executive for key strategic customers

• Facilitate discussions with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, and other technology leaders

• Lead and engage in customer on-site visits, SICs, workshops, and conferences

• Ensure architecture teams articulate business outcomes, use cases, target architecture, data, integrations, guardrails, dependencies, and production pathways

• Collaborate with Builder leadership to synchronize architecture and implementation efforts

• Identify and address architectural obstacles

• Partner with Sales, Solutions, Builders, Success, Product, Engineering, and specialized organizations

• Transform field insights into executive narratives, perspectives, reusable assets, and scalable enablement

• Relay customer signals, architectural trends, risks, priorities, and opportunities to senior leadership

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading leaders and senior technical talent through periods of change

• Profound understanding of enterprise architecture and contemporary technology landscapes

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, data, AI, integration, identity, security, governance, APIs, and modern application and experience architectures

• Exceptional capability to convey complex technical subjects to senior customers and internal executives

• Ability to relate technical decisions to business value, risk, speed, adoption, and long-term platform strategy

• Intellectual curiosity and a proactive perspective on technology and customer requirements

• Capacity to operate with urgency and make headway in uncertain situations

• Outstanding collaboration and organizational influence across various boundaries

• Ability to manage a complex portfolio upwards and communicate effectively with senior leaders

• Passion for cultivating leaders and empowering exceptional technical talent

🏝️ Benefits

• Time off programs

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Mental health support

• Paid parental leave

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• 401(k)

• Employee stock purchasing program

• Incentive compensation, where applicable

• Equity, where applicable

• Reasonable accommodations during the application or recruiting process