Technical Director, DataEdge Strategy & Architecture

4 days ago

Remote, Canada or Remote, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

Define the DataEdge platform strategy and translate business priorities into a shared cross-product technical roadmap.
Align Product, Engineering, Architecture, and peer technical leaders on platform objectives, investments, architecture decisions, and tradeoffs.
Drive reusable services, APIs, frameworks, shared platform capabilities, and technology consolidation.
Define cloud-native strategies for deployment, configuration, scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
Identify and prioritize AI platform capabilities, intelligent automation, MCP, and agentic systems with Product and Engineering.
Shape ecosystem strategy through customer insight, technology partnerships, industry standards, open APIs, and interoperability frameworks.
Advance AI-enabled development, testing, documentation, modernization, and delivery practices.
Represent the technology vision and mentor Principal Engineers, architects, and senior technical leaders.

12+ years of software engineering, architecture, or technical leadership experience.
Experience defining architecture and technology strategy across multiple enterprise products or platforms and contributing to broader business or portfolio strategy.
Strong expertise in LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, enterprise AI integration, responsible AI patterns, and interoperability standards such as MCP.
Demonstrated delivery of AI-enabled product capabilities and adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices.
Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern software delivery.
Experience building shared platforms, services, APIs, or reusable frameworks and leading technology consolidation.
Experience partnering with Product Management on strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and investment decisions.
Ability to work with senior technical leaders to resolve cross-portfolio tradeoffs, align investments, and influence without direct authority.
Experience shaping ecosystem strategy across enterprise data, analytics, and AI, including customers, technology partners, industry standards, open APIs, and interoperability frameworks.
Exceptional communication and facilitation skills with executive leaders and experience mentoring Principal Engineers, architects, and other senior technical leaders.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

Remote work arrangement is indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
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