Technology Director – Enterprise Services & Business Platforms

This position follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation to be in the office 3 days per week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams across geographic locations, including managers, architects, technical leads, developers, and analysts.
• Establish technology strategy and roadmaps aligned with business objectives, enterprise architecture, modernization priorities, and organizational strategy.
• Own architecture, engineering, delivery, production stability, resiliency, scalability, and technical health across the application portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership across full-stack development, APIs, microservices, integration frameworks, workflow/decisioning platforms, cloud technologies, Angular, Java/Spring and distributed systems.
• Drive modernization toward API-first, event-driven, modular, and cloud-ready architectures while reducing technical debt.
• Maintain accountability for highly available production environments, including incident/problem/change management, disaster recovery, observability, performance, and root-cause remediation.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, resiliency, and measurable engineering standards.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted software engineering and identify opportunities to apply Generative AI, Machine Learning, and agentic technologies to engineering, operations, and business capabilities.
• Manage workforce capacity, vendors, technology priorities, and investment decisions while balancing business value, risk, modernization, and technical debt.
• Develop technology leaders and build a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate technology strategy, risks, incidents, and investment decisions effectively to senior business and technology leaders.
• Participate in production support and executive escalations, including nights, weekends, and on-call responsibilities when required.

Skills

• Significant technology leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams supporting large-scale, business-critical enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience across the SDLC, including architecture, engineering, modernization, delivery, and production operations.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale Java/Spring Boot API and microservices platforms including integration frameworks, distributed systems, and full-stack development .
• Strong understanding of modern solution architecture, including API-first and event-driven architectures, cloud platforms, DevOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, and observability.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications and operating highly available production platforms.
• Proven ability to develop technology leaders, manage geographically distributed teams, partner with senior business stakeholders, and influence across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Skills

• Financial-services, wealth-management, client-onboarding, or enterprise technology experience preferred.
• Experience with Generative AI/LLMs, Machine Learning, and agentic programming/AI architectures .
• Familiarity with GenAI patterns including RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and guardrails .
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering to improve development velocity, quality, modernization, testing, troubleshooting, or production operations.
• Financial-services, wealth-management, client-onboarding, or enterprise-services technology experience preferred.