Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

| Greater Denver Area | Hybrid
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ABOUT THIS ROLE

Are you ready to disrupt an industry? We are looking for an experienced thought leader with a passion for delivering forward thinking solutions around enterprise architecture. Reporting directly to our CTO you will be tasked with influencing all aspects of our SaaS based business delivering innovative designs to take Vertafore to the next level. You will often wear multiple hats and get a holistic, multi-faceted career-building experience working with top talent. 
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Architecture / Strategy

  • Collaborates with the CTO, members of the Technology Leadership team, Principal Engineers and Business Stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy aligned with Company's company objectives.
  • Works with various architects around the business, partners, and our PE firm in delivering successful strategy, planning and implementation of technical capabilities and platforms.
  • Engage and develop relationships with leaders across the global organization to understand functional business needs and identify opportunities to introduce new technical solutions.
  • Aligns closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate, derisk roadmaps for our consumer facing experiences and tools.
  • Drives thought leadership within the organization with presentations and architectural models models that show how the current and future technology needs of the organization align to our company mission and the growth of our business.

Delivery and Execution

  • Define, maintain and evangelize the company's current and target platform strategy with reference architectures, business-system capability map, solution integration requirements and deployment guidelines.
  • Drives adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis and ROI.
  • Create technical requirements and global architecture to govern the security, scalability, sustainability, cost and overall quality of our infrastructure, systems, content and data.
  • While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on our production systems on a consistent basis, a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help our teams with technical issues

Team Building and Management

  • Attract, hire & retain highly skilled architects.
  • Assessing skills & building career development plans for direct reports.
  • Performance management through alignment/setting of objectives/deadlines for direct reports and cross-functional teams.
  • Acts as an expert advisor, coach and mentor across the technology organization on latest architecture principles and practices.
  • Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • 15+ years of experience in application development, software & solution architecture with increasing responsibilities, with at least 5 of those managing teams of 5+ architects or engineers.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
  • Prior experience in SaaS platforms generating over $100M in software revenue
  • A passion for mentoring and building strong technical leaders.
  • Demonstrated ability to transform teams and technology in a rapidly growing environment.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects using Agile development practices.
  • Experience with Continuous Delivery tools and DevOps practices.
  • Experience with Data Technologies: Spark, Tableau, AWS EMR, S3 and other AWS Data Tech.
  • Experience with Java, Python SQL, Ruby, .Net, C++,
  • Experience with Serverless & microservices architecture.
  • Experience with Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Strong API design and implementation skills.
  • Strong presentation skills and written & spoken communication skills.
  • Abreast of the latest and greatest technology advancements in web and native mobile platforms.
  • Understanding of Big Data architectures, data science / Machine Learning platforms and Business Intelligence Visualization tools.
  • Experience with the implementation and integration of business systems across the Accounting, Supply Chain and Manufacturing domains is a plus.
  • Experience with physical retail technology solutions is a plus.
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Technology we use

  • Engineering
    • C#Languages
    • C++Languages
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • ASP.NETFrameworks
    • Microsoft SQL ServerDatabases
    • MySQLDatabases
    • OracleDatabases
    • AWS (Amazon Web Services)Services

Location

Great location in the heart of downtown Denver just a block away from the RTD lightrail.

What are Vertafore Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Vertafore offers employees 1 paid day to volunteer at the non-profit of their choice.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
President's club
Employee awards
Remote work program
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and team buildin
Diversity
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Vertafore employees can contribute up to $2750 annually to their FSA.
Disability insurance
Disability insurance covers 100% of annual salary for up to 90 days of disability.
Dental insurance
Our dental plan covers $1500 of expenses per person.
Vision insurance
The vision benefits plan covers 100% for annual eye exams with $175 for glasses or contact lenses.
Health insurance
Vertafore offers three different health plans to meet the needs of our employees.
Life insurance
Pet insurance
We offer a Pet Insurance plan through Nationwide.
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Vertafore's team fitness initiatives include in-office yoga, a partnership with Planet Fitness, and other recreational team sports.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Vertafore provides employees with a 401(k) matching plan managed by [provider]. We match up to 50% of contributions up to 3% of an employee's annual gross pay.
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Vertafore provides up to 6 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. We also provide 6 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
We reimburse up to $2,500 for eligible adoption expenses and 6 weeks of paid leave.
Company sponsored family events
Vertafore sponsors family oriented events semi-annually.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
Every year on the second Friday in April, our company shuts down for "Refresh & Recharge Day." It's a day to unplug and get back to what you love outside of work.
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Vertafore hosts company outings annually.
Free snacks and drinks
In various areas of the office, Vertafore provides weekly fresh fruit services, bagels and donuts on specified days, as well as snacks and drinks.
Some meals provided
We provide free breakfast on Mondays and Fridays.
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Vertafore sponsors recreational clubs that include sports, board games, video games, book clubs, etc.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Our tuition reimbursement plan offers an annual max of $5,250.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Vertafore's mentorship framework is an independently led experience between a mentee and a mentor. Resources are ongoingly provided to start this relationship and keep it successful & valuable.
Online course subscriptions available
Personal development training

Additional Perks + Benefits

We felt like the stretch of no three day weekends from Feb - May was too long, so we added our own holiday! We celebrate Vertafore Rest and Recharge day in April, and the whole company has a long weekend.

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