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.*
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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, Dev Sec Ops , 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, Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops , 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.

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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.