Sr. Director, Platform & Architecture

Job Description

As the Senior Director, Platform & Architecture, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our platform strategy and ensuring the alignment of architecture direction with Epsilon auto’s vision to bring customer-valued innovation to market faster. Your expertise and leadership will be crucial in maintaining the scalability, performance, and security of our software systems.

You will oversee end-to-end product architecture including database, software, and system; define, implement, and communicate processes that assure alignment to architectural standards. You will collaborate closely with peers in Engineering and Product Management and other key stakeholders to ensure the right technology approaches are being implemented across development teams that set us up for success in the future and create and drive business value.

You will partner effectively across Epsilon to infuse platform-centric and domain-centric thinking while enabling OEM customized solution with modern data and platform vision. You will help drive the transformational change in technology with the ability to effectively prioritize and perform in a high-pressure environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Architectural & Platform:

• Define and drive the long-term software and data architecture strategy. Create principles, policies and a governance approach that ensure the architecture aligns with the business and technology strategy.
• Establish and communicate architectural standards, best practices, and data management process to ensure software quality and maintainability.
• Lead strategic technology domains starting with data management. Create and align data platform, design and optimize data models, schemas, and data pipelines to support efficient data ingestion, storage, and retrieval.

2. Technical Oversight and Transformation:

• Collaborate with development teams to solve complex technical challenges and provide technical direction. Partner closely with cross functional teams to identify opportunities for improvements to our technology stack and platform.
• Review and contribute software design decisions to ensure alignment with architectural principles. Influence and evangelize modular, modern software architectures across the broader ecosystem.
• Act as a subject matter expert in technical transformations such as: legacy to modern technology, application platform creation, and cloud migration. Drive and lead incubation of new technology and solutions.
• Develop and maintain security best practices and ensure adherence to relevant industry standards and compliance requirements. Conduct regular audits and assessments of data architecture to identify areas for improvement and implement necessary changes. 

3. Leadership & Collaboration:

• Work closely with project managers and cross-functional teams to define project requirements and ensure architectural alignment.
• Work closely with other architects to create holistic technology solutions for our customers. This requires an equal part collaboration with the product management and engineering management.
• In addition to building and running an industry-leading platform, you will also work closely with engineering leadership team to focus on the business aspects of the platform, most notably the ability to drive our gross margin through responsible owner-mentality infrastructure cost management.

  4. Documentation and Communication:

• Create and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including diagrams, guidelines, and standards.
• Communicate architectural decisions and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers on architecture best practices and standards.
• Build a strong architecture community, actively understanding and participating in the improvement of the broader architecture and engineering practice in Epsilon Auto. Promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or closely related discipline. Advanced degree is preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in solution or software architecture role. Experience as chief architect or principal level enterprise architect role for an entire organization or a large portfolio.
• Experience in building applications, solutions, and reusable capabilities as well as integration with SaaS solutions using superior security, standard methodologies, and leading technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to think analytically and independently, providing the thought leadership necessary to introduce incremental and evolutionary change. 
• Experience in building platforms, preferably any data platform, at an enterprise level. Proven experience in defining data architectures o