Architecture & Design Director - Digital Products

Oversee the development and application of architecture strategies and frameworks across domains, ensuring end-to-end coherence and alignment with enterprise guardrails.Manages architectural reviews and technical decision-making processes, providing oversight on critical design choices and ensuring alignment across multiple projects and teams.Ensures solutions are designed to meet business objectives inclusive of user experience through architecture principles and governance, enabling scalability, security by design, and adaptability to changing business needs.Collaborates with leadership to align architecture initiatives with business goals, ensuring solutions are designed for long-term sustainability, reuse, and experience quality.Establishes and governs architecture decision frameworks and review processes, ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment with enterprise standards across initiatives and value streams.Drives innovation by evaluating and guiding adoption of emerging technologies with a focus on architectural fit, business value, and reduction of technical debt, operating efficiency and cost.Leads, coaches, and develops a team of Solution and System Architects fostering a high-performing culture centered on design excellence, governance, and continuous improvement.Education and Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.Twelve (12) or more years of diversified IT experience required.Five (5) or more years directly managing professional staff required.Five (5) or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, including defining and enforcing architecture principles and standards preferred.Experience leading architecture reviews and making technical decisions across multiple projects required.Experience in developing user-centered design processes.Deep understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing preferred.Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve performance, security, and maintainability preferred.Experience managing APIs, microservices, and data platform interfaces to enable seamless enterprise-wide data exchange preferred.Proven track record of monitoring and optimizing software performance, reliability, and security preferred.Familiarity with secure coding practices, monitoring, and alerting systems preferred.ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, SAFe, PMI, Organization Change Management, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.Skills Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.Energizing the Organization - Creates a purposeful, engaged, optimistic workforce.Ongoing Learning & Self-Development - Regularly determines new areas for learning and acquires strategies and best practices for gaining/improving knowledge, behaviors, and skills.Selecting and Developing People - Recognizes and selects high caliber talent, accurately assesses abilities and potential, coaches to develop capabilities and builds high- performing teams.Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.Data-Driven Decision Making - Applies data to make informed decisions with a priority on using real-time data, analytics, and insights to optimize operations, improve safety, and enhance the company's competitive edge.Digital Awareness - Actively explore, learn, and implement emerging digital tools, technologies, and trends. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.Twelve (12) or more years of diversified IT experience required.Five (5) or more years directly managing professional staff required.Five (5) or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, including defining and enforcing architecture principles and standards preferred.Experience leading architecture reviews and making technical decisions across multiple projects required.Experience in developing user-centered design processes.Deep understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing preferred.Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve performance, security, and maintainability preferred.Experience managing APIs, microservices, and data platform interfaces to enable seamless enterprise-wide data exchange preferred.Proven track record of monitoring and optimizing software performance, reliability, and security preferred.Familiarity with secure coding practices, monitoring, and alerting systems preferred.ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, SAFe, PMI, Organization Change Management, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth. 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