Sr. Director of Technology

Sr. Director of Technology

We are seeking a senior technical leader to serve as the Enterprise Design Authority and lead the Innovation & Technology organization.

• Own the enterprise architecture strategy across application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security domains. Establish and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and technology decisions across value streams.
• Lead the architecture review process through a tiered model, focusing on significant design decisions and cross-domain strategy.
• Oversee the Director of Engineering Enablement and engineering functions including Principal Engineers, Tech Leads, Dev Ops/Platform, SRE/Observability, and UX. Set engineering standards and ensure consistent execution.
• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to vendor’s Senior Delivery Lead, ensuring quality and performance expectations and managing architecture resources from strategic partners.
• Drive the architecture redesign and microservice decomposition strategy, defining handoff standards for new microservices and ensuring A/B failover design.
• Build and retain deep system knowledge within the teams, documenting, cross‑training, and knowledge sharing to reduce single‑points‑of‑failure.
• Own the long‑term infrastructure diversification strategy, ensuring disaster recovery capabilities meet RTO business requirements.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years in software engineering/architecture roles, with 3+ years in technical leadership.
• Proven track record leading enterprise architecture for complex, multi‑system environments.
• Experience managing onshore and distributed teams in a dedicated or strategic partnership model.
• Deep expertise in application architecture, API/integration design, data architecture, and cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred).
• Experience with microservice architecture, event‑driven design, and monolith decomposition strategies.
• Strong understanding of insurance or financial services technology (rating engines, policy administration, claims, billing).
• Experience establishing architecture review boards, ADR processes, and design governance frameworks.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on technical credibility.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for executives.
• Experience with CI/CD, Dev Ops, SRE, and observability preferred.
• Player/coach leadership style—define strategy and execute directly.

• Dynamic environment: on‑site role with a fast‑paced, collaborative team culture.
• Competitive compensation: base pay and performance bonuses.
• Career growth: mentorship, growth tracks, and professional development.
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401k, paid holidays, PTO and more.

Regularly required to sit, stand, and/or walk around, including stairs. Ability to lift light objects (≤25 lbs), bend, twist, or squat to open cabinets, and use standard office equipment such as computers, printers, and phones.

Orion
180 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process. Applicants who need accommodations may email  to request assistance.