Director, Enterprise Architecture

Great America Financial Services is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth.

We are looking to add a key member to our Technology Team!

The Director, Enterprise Architecture serves as the end-to-end solution architecture authority for the enterprise and provides strategic and hands-on leadership for the Solution Architecture function. This role leads and manages a team of Solution Architects while overseeing the design and delivery of scalable, reusable, and secure technology solutions across Great America’s products and platforms.

This leader is responsible for connecting product-level and platform-level solutions into a cohesive enterprise architecture, ensuring consistency, integration, and reuse across domains. The role engages across the full solution lifecycle from ideation and evaluation through implementation and ongoing optimization, partnering closely with product teams, platform teams, and technology leadership.

The Director, Enterprise Architecture works collaboratively with solution architects, technical leaders, business systems analysts, engineers, security, infrastructure, and external partners to ensure solutions align with business outcomes, architectural standards, and long-term strategy. In addition, this role provides guidance to business and technology leaders on critical investment and trade-off decisions, balancing near-term operational needs with the organization’s future-state vision.

This position plays a key role in shaping and translating Great America’s strategic vision into executable technology and business capabilities, enabling alignment across business, product, and platform teams.

• Research and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, tools, and best practices to improve the quality and efficiency of the technology solutions.
• Foster a test and learn mentality and processes to innovate through proof-of-concept and prototype delivery, enabling the engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions quickly.
• Architect high-quality software applications and data solutions using various products, services, and platforms, such as Salesforce, Azure, API third party and in-house built software, Info Lease and Databricks.
• Create and maintain the architecture artifacts, including architecture reference diagrams and architecture patterns.
• Collaborate with other solution architects and engineers to ensure alignment and integration of the solutions across different products and business domains.
• Partner with engineers in solving issues through scalable solution architecture and patterns, ensuring optimal performance, security and availability.
• Identify and drive aggressive reduction of technical debt.
• Own application rationalization process to significantly reduce number of applications.
• Lead, mentor and coach a team of Solution Architects.

• Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of technology architectures across the product release train.
• Develop business and technology architecture standards, procedures, and policy in conjunction the other solution architects and engineers.
• Lead the enterprise architecture review board and ensure that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models, security, risk, compliance and innovative techniques.
• Assist in new product and vendor evaluations, proof-of-concept and prototypes.
• Architect cloud based, application/product architectures with reusable patterns like microservices and event driven techniques.
• Align architecture strategy with business goals.
• Consult with product/platform teams to fit solution designs to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Conduct research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Lead the refactoring of applications for cloud deployment and building cloud native applications.
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