Sr Director, Architecture

ABOUT US

Hirex Hire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client's everyday operations to understand their people goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan.

We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth which need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.

OUR CLIENT

Headquarters:
Chicago, IL
Industry: Legal/AI SaaS
Company Size: 1000+
What They Do:
Our client is a PE-backed SaaS company at the forefront of legal technology, specializing in productivity and risk management software for small to large law firms and their employees globally. They offer a connected ecosystem of solutions to drive innovation across many aspects of a firm.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Director, Architecture who will demonstrate technical leadership and as well as strong communication and presentation skills to join our client's dynamic and innovative technology team. The position requires not only rock-solid programming skills, but also the capacity to lead all aspects of technical design reviews and quality culture.

The right candidate will have the ability to teach, coach, and mentor more junior engineers. As a senior leader on the team, you will be responsible for defining the requirements, designing, and shaping technology innovation for our client. This is a unique opportunity to play a key technical strategy role within a growing and ever-changing ecosystem. The role works closely with both the Engineering and Product teams and spans both products and the underlying technology platform.

Our client's customers rely on them to deliver innovative, strategic and forward-looking solutions. This is your chance to be a key member of a global software company.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Develop innovative architectural solutions in a wide variety of problem sets and domains.
• Create and share architectural designs, best practices and technology roadmaps with cross-functional teams.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical requirements, models and software architectures.
• Focus on non-functional requirements, including deployment needs, scalability, performance and reliability when developing architectures and best practices.
• Develop "proof of concept" solutions to help demonstrate and communicate technical designs and desired architectures.
• Develop architecture and guidelines to move on-perm systems to SAAS based multi-tenant solutions on Azure Cloud.
• Drive adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis and ROI.
• Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Mentor the team to work towards a common platform architecture across the organization.

ROLE PROGRESSION

Within 1 month, you will:

• Learn the functional areas of the products and intended uses.
• Establish relationships with key members of the leadership and architecture teams.
• Participate and contribute to assigned work activities and meetings (planning, daily standups, etc.).
• Acclimate to the environment and begin to gain insights into the technology and innovation opportunities that exist in the company.
• Contribute thoughts, ideas, relevant expertise in at least one key strategic initiative. Goal: expand to multiple initiatives over time.
• Review and learn key architecture team artifacts and ways of working - Product Inventory, Reference Architecture.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Contribute reference architecture and proof of concept improvements regularly.
• Develop subject matter expertise in more than one product area.
• Translate product vision into technical requirements, designs, and plans. Help shape the future.
• Active technical leadership - sharing new ideas and architectural insights with the teams…