Technical Director

Role: Technical Director
Location: position can sit anywhere in the US as it is remote but there is a preference if they are in/near Austin, TX
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

The role combines technology and leadership with customer focus. The role requires a business and technology capable individual to engage with customers to develop enterprise solutions with a core focus on Client’s Portfolio.

This role is suitable for people who have:

·         A client facing technology consulting background focusing on business requirement gathering and analysis and technology enablement

·         Demonstrable experience and deep knowledge in enterprise architecture design and consulting for a broad range of technologies towers such as Infrastructure, networking, Hyper scalers (Public Cloud) and Applications.  Ideally a background in Hybrid Architecture & Cyber Security would be desirable too

·         Experience of developing and managing business requirements gathering and architecture design work as part of a customer engagement team

·         Experience of managing and performing critical analysis of technology and associated processes, with a view to recommending strategies that will improve service, lower costs and prevent unforeseen operational issues.

·         Experience of delivering transformational projects or change programs within enterprise clients

·         Good commercial approach to New Business solutioning, with the ability to drive solutions based on limited information and assumptions, whilst observing cost models

·         Experience with designing, implementing and running FINOPS programs based on the FINOPS Foundation

·         Experience in building and managing an Enterprise Architecture team

·         Excellent written and verbal communication and customer facing skills

The successful individual must have a passion for the customer and the technology supporting their business demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the Client customer experience.

The successful candidate should have a strong background in the following areas:

Cloud and Enterprise architectures, virtual infrastructure (compute, network and storage), security, compliance, isolation in multi-tenant environments, next-generation collaboration and end-user computing, backup, disaster avoidance and recovery and IT operations.

·         The candidate must possess strong communication skills, technical presence, and leadership, and be able to demonstrate solid services delivery experience.

Key Responsibilities

·         Lead & manage a team of technical consultants including setting goals, expectations, and ensuring team alignment to corporate metrics

·         Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development to resources

·         Grow and manage the team through establishment of appropriate people development processes – hiring, frequent feedback loops, and appropriate adjustments

·         Engage with customers to define overall solution being able to bridge the business to technology conversation

·         Analyze customer technology, organization & processes and recommend optimization and best practice improvements

·         Analyze and make recommendations for a change program in order to drive operational efficiencies based on moving to a cloud /DevSecOps operating model

·         Provide architecture overview and quality assurance for programs

·         Shape overall solution with customer teams and progress to design and implementation stage

·         Work with customer technology, application, security and business stakeholders to ensure that all requirements are gathered and documented to the agreed plan

·         Potentially own the delivery plan and assume delivery manager role for team of multiple resources

·         Perform due diligence on proposed designs, identifying potential issues with the execution and operational architectures and recommend possible options

·         Interface with other technology groups to promote common tools and standards at a global level

·         Perform impact analysis of proposed major changes to the process / technology landscape of customer systems

·         Maintain a close relationship between with customers’ architecture teams

Mandatory & Desired Skills

·         Demonstrated strong organizational skills and ability to lead a large team of strong technical consultants

·         Experience managing direct teams of 15+ individuals

·         Significant familiarity with 5 or more domains (e.g cloud platforms, security, infrastructure, tech strategy, business strategy, etc)

·         Strong public cloud experience with 5+ years of architectural expertise

·         Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and understand the technical roles needed to organize a team to develop technical solution

·         Proven experience in leading large complex technical cloud initiatives

·         Excellent skills in the areas of interpersonal communication, self-awareness, social acumen and personal credibility