A professional services organization is seeking an experienced professional to join their staff as their new Director, Advisory Architecture, Embedded Solutions. This role focuses on building sound architecture, improving development processes, and enabling embedded prototype-first solutions that move efficiently into production.
About the Opportunity:
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Hours: Standard business hours with flexibility for a global role
- Setting: Hybrid
- Locations: New York City, Chicago, or Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture strategy, standards, and roadmap for advisory solutions
- Improve tools, templates, and workflows that accelerate delivery from idea to production
- Define and support the use of AI-assisted and agentic development practices
- Guide an embedded team that builds rapid prototypes and iterates with business stakeholders
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Business Analysis, and other architecture leaders to promote solutions into production and align on roadmap priorities
Qualifications:
- 10 or more years of experience in solution architecture, software architecture, or engineering, including production delivery in a large organization
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on experience architecting cloud-based business solutions, including a CRM platform such as Salesforce
- Working knowledge of integration, data, security, and governance architecture disciplines
- Experience prototyping with business users and showing working software early
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools
- Strong communication skills with non-technical and senior stakeholders
- Ability to prioritize, set boundaries, and explain trade-offs clearly
Desired Skills:
- Experience in commercial real estate, professional services, or another advisor-driven business
- Background as a forward deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or similar customer-embedded role
- Salesforce depth beyond the basics, such as Flow, Lightning Web Components, Apex, or certifications
- Experience partnering with UX and design teams on broker-facing tools
- Familiarity with CI/CD and source control practices for CRM platforms
- Experience building a new team or capability inside an established enterprise
