Sr. Director & Head of Architecture

div class= content-intro p style= line-height: 1.5; strong span style= font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); About Us /span /strong /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; Our leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables clients to expand into over 180 countries quickly and efficiently, without the complexities of establishing local entities. At G-P, we’re dedicated to breaking down barriers to global business and creating opportunities for everyone, everywhere. /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; Our diverse, remote-first teams are essential to our success. We empower our Dream Team members with flexibility and resources, fostering an environment where innovation thrives and every contribution is valued and celebrated. /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; The work you do here will positively impact lives around the world. We stand by our promise: Opportunity Made Possible. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, we invite you to join us in expanding your skills and helping to reshape the future of work. /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; At G-P, we assist organizations in building exceptional global teams in days, not months—streamlining the hiring, onboarding, and management process to unlock growth potential for all. /span /p /div p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; strong About The Position: /strong strong br /strong As the Sr. Director amp; Head of Architecture at G-P, you will be the visionary leader responsible for defining and executing the long-term technical strategy for our global products and AI platforms and influence technical decisions across the company. This is a high-impact, executive-level role that bridges the gap between complex engineering execution and high-level business objectives. You will oversee the evolution of our cloud-native ecosystem, ensuring our architecture is scalable, secure, and infused with cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities. /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will lead a high-performing team of Architects. You will work in close lockstep with Product Management, Engineering to harmonize technology decisions across the organization, ensuring our investment in technology translates directly into market-leading customer experiences /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; strong What You Will Do: /strong /span /p ul li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Strategic Technical Leadership: Define and strongly influence the execution of a target-state, AI-native architecture that supports both core software services and advanced AI Agentic behaviors. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Architectural Governance: Establish global standards for architecture consistency, ensuring all platform components maximize reuse and align with the long-term technology roadmap. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; AI First thinking: Oversee the architectural design of complex AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls. Ensure that these are integrated into a cohesive strategy and implementation. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Customer Centricity: Everything we do is to serve our customers. Understanding the customers and the business is the only way to build strategies for it’s success. nbsp; /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Team Management amp; Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Security amp; Compliance: Define and create standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to mitigate data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Technical Trade-offs: Act as a coach and decision maker with technical teams and business stakeholders, translating complex technical trade-offs when creating business impact. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Innovation amp; Research: Serve as the ultimate sounding board for introducing new technologies, 3rd-party integrations, and open-source solutions to keep the platform at the forefront of the industry. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Reliability amp; Performance: Ensure system and infrastructure architecture results in high reliability, low latency, and minimal outages as a primary measure of organizational success. /span /li li style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Culture Builder: Help create a strong culture of innovation and technical excellence across the organization. /span /li /ul p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; strong What We Are Looking For: nbsp; nbsp; /strong /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; strong Minimum Requirements: /strong nbsp; /span /p ul li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, building products and platforms with at least 5 years in a senior leadership or directorial capacity managing Architecture teams. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Extensive Cloud Expertise: Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, especially AWS. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; AI First Product amp; Tech Strategies : Experience nbsp; with building AI Native products and technologies. nbsp; /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Strategic Communication: Demonstrated ability to gain buy-in for large-scale technical shifts from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations within a rapidly growing or unstructured corporate environment. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. /span /li /ul p nbsp; 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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); Our ranges are established using objective market benchmarking data for this level of work. Final placement within the range is determined by gender-neutral criteria, including the candidate's relevant skills, experience, and specific qualifications for the role. /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); Actual compensation for this position may vary and will depend on multiple factors such as relevant qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. For Full-Time Regular Employees, this position is also eligible for additional compensation as follows: br /span /p ul li style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); Sales Roles: This position is eligible for a commission structure in addition to base salary. /span /li li style= line-height: 1.5; span style= font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); Non-Sales Roles: This position is eligible for an annual bonus which is paid dependent on various factors, including and without limitation, individual and company performance in addition to base salary. /span /li /ul p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; strong Benefits nbsp; /strong /span /p div style= line-height: 1.5; p class= x_MsoNormal span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; G-P values its employees and offers excellent benefits and perks including generous paid parental leave, flexible time off, spending accounts, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, sabbatical after 5 years and more. /span /p /div div style= line-height: 1.5; nbsp; /div div style= line-height: 1.5; p class= x_MsoNormal span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt; em Individuals residing, or applying to work, in the span class= Apple-converted-space nbsp; /span strong United States: California or Philadelphia /strong , span class= Apple-converted-space nbsp; /span strong Pennsylvania, span class= Apple-converted-space nbsp; /span /strong please review the following additional information: br br G-P will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Act Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Act Ordinance. 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Any consideration of a candidate’s background check with arrest or conviction records will include an individualized assessment based on the factors required by applicable law, including the candidate’s specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job. /em /span /p /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div /div p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; strong G-P. Global Made Possible. /strong /span /p p style= line-height: 1.5; span style= color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; em G-P is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to building and maintaining a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. 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