Sr. Director, Architecture, Engineering, & Innovation

**The starting base pay range for this position is $175,000-$190,000. Individual compensation will be commensurate with candidate's experience. This position is eligible for full benefits, as well as the Sr. Director level annual incentive bonus program.** **Title:** Sr. Director, Architecture, Engineering & Innovation **FLSA Status:** Exempt **Reports To:** Sr. Vice President, Information Technology **Department:** Information Technology **Location:** U.S.-based (remote eligible) **Alt Work Eligibility:** CWW-Yes, Remote-Yes **Level:** Senior Director ### **Summary of Position** The Sr. Director, Architecture, Engineering & Innovation is a working technical leader — someone who sets architectural direction for AVIXA's entire technology ecosystem and contributes directly to building it. This is not a governance-only or oversight role. It is a hands-on leadership position where strategy and execution live in the same person. You will own the architecture and engineering direction across a Microsoft Azure cloud environment, Salesforce platform ecosystem, and .NET application portfolio. You will make the calls that matter — on system design, integration patterns, platform tradeoffs, and technology adoption — and then partner closely with a lean, trusted team to bring them to life. This role is for a senior technologist who is energized by real ownership, values working without unnecessary layers, and wants their technical judgment to have direct and visible impact on an organization that means something. You'll serve as the most senior technical voice between business strategy and engineering reality — shaping what gets built, how it fits together, and whether it holds up over time. **Major Duties & Responsibilities** *Hands-On Architecture & Engineering* • Design and contribute directly to solutions across Azure infrastructure, Salesforce integrations, and .NET applications — writing, reviewing, and guiding code at a level that earns the team's technical trust. • Own integration architecture across platforms including CMS, CRM, LMS, identity, analytics, events, and commerce — defining patterns, approving approaches, and resolving issues when they arise. • Build and maintain reference architectures, technical standards, and integration guardrails that give the team a clear, shared foundation to work from. • Engage directly in high-stakes technical decisions rather than delegating them upward or downward. *Enterprise Architecture Strategy* • Own the long-term technology platform vision and ensure that individual systems fit together into a coherent, scalable, and sustainable whole. • Make and arbitrate architectural tradeoffs across speed, cost, capability, and long-term maintainability — with full accountability for those decisions. • Prevent architectural fragmentation and the accumulation of unmanaged technical debt across the portfolio. • Maintain accountability for platform scalability, reliability, security, and evolvability — not just as principles, but as outcomes. *Small Team Leadership & Enablement* • Lead a lean, high-trust team of engineers with clarity of expectation, directness of feedback, and genuine investment in their growth. • Cultivate a culture where technical craftsmanship, ownership, and honest communication are the norm. • Remove blockers, resolve cross-team constraints, and ensure the team can operate at its best — without bureaucratic overhead slowing them down. • Set standards for technical maturity, documentation, testing, and system ownership that the team can actually live by. *Product & Business Translation* • Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate roadmaps and desired outcomes into architecturally sound, executable approaches. • Provide early architectural guidance during discovery and planning to reduce rework, surface risk early, and make tradeoffs explicit. • Ensure technology strategy serves business outcomes — and push back constructively when it risks doing the opposite.…