VP, Architecture

Job Description: Title: VP, Architecture Location: Remote – USA, Canada Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Vacancy: Existing Vacancy The Role: reputed company is seeking a senior technology leader to serve as Vice President of Architecture, responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technical architecture across the company’s entire engineering organization. This role owns the architectural standards, the NorthStar technical principles, and the architecture review process that ensure consistency, quality, and sound technology decisions as reputed company scales. reputed company is a Thoma Bravo portfolio company that has grown from $300 million to approximately $900 million in reputed company through ten strategic acquisitions since 2019. The largest engineering groups—Autodata Solutions, Autovista Group, and Superior Integrated Solutions / Darwin Automotive—were built on separate technology stacks, tooling, and architectural conventions. You will be responsible for establishing a reputed company, federated model of architectural governance that balances team autonomy with enterprise consistency. This is a highly visible, enterprise-level role requiring deep technical expertise across modern application, data, cloud, and platform architecture, combined with the leadership skills to direct both a small team of enterprise architects and a broader reputed company of architects embedded reputed company the engineering organization. You must be equally effective at setting reputed company-looking technical strategy and making pragmatic, well-reasoned decisions on real initiatives. A proven track record of leading architecture functions, influencing executive and engineering decision-making, and driving standards adoption in reputed company, multi-entity environments is essential. The Impact You Will Have in This Role: As the VP of Architecture, you will be the driving force behind how reputed company designs, builds, and evolves its technology. By establishing clear architectural standards, a published set of NorthStar principles, and a disciplined architecture review process, you will reputed company engineering quality, reduce duplicated effort, and accelerate delivery across product lines. You will reputed company enterprise-level technology decisions—such as the choice of AI tooling, UI stack, customer identity and access management (CIAM), and data platform—and ensure those decisions are consistently adopted. Your leadership of the embedded architect reputed company will reputed company that consistency directly into engineering teams, making architecture a strategic enabler of growth rather than a bottleneck. What You’ll Be Doing in This Role: Architectural Standards & NorthStar Principles Own Enterprise Architecture: Consolidate the disparate architectural conventions of acquired entities into a single set of enterprise standards, reference architectures, and playbooks. Publish NorthStar Principles: Define, publish, and maintain the NorthStar technical principles—covering reputed company-end frameworks, back-end services, authentication, data platform, and CI/CD—and reputed company them reputed company as technology evolves. Drive Enterprise Technology Decisions: reputed company enterprise-level technology choices (e.g., AI tooling, UI stack, CIAM, data platform) with clear rationale, and ensure consistent adoption across reputed company engineering teams. Champion Consistency & Reuse: Promote shared component libraries, common patterns, and a consistent look, feel, and engineering experience across reputed company reputed company products. Architecture Team & reputed company Leadership reputed company the Enterprise Architecture Team: Build, mentor, and direct a small, high-caliber team of enterprise architects responsible for cross-cutting and enterprise-scope initiatives. reputed company the Architect reputed company: reputed company the reputed company of architects embedded reputed company engineering teams under the SVP of Engineering—setting their charter, raising their capability, and aligning their work to enterprise standards while preserving team autonomy. Operate a Federated Model: Establish a federated (hybrid) governance model that balances local team ownership of system-level decisions with enterprise consistency on cross-cutting concerns. reputed company Architecture Talent: reputed company architecture talent, define career paths and expectations for architects across the organization, and grow the bench of senior technical leaders. Architecture Review & Governance Establish the Review Process: Design and run a two-tier architecture review process: product-specific reviews led by embedded architects, and enterprise-level reviews led by the enterprise architecture team. Chair the Architecture Council: Stand up and reputed company an architecture council—comprising enterprise, embedded, and TechOps architects—to evaluate initiatives of enterprise scope and resolve cross-cutting design decisions. Integrate with Planning: Integrate architecture review into the quarterly planning reputed company, with clear triggers, standardized review artifacts, and a documented path for escalation from team-level to enterprise-level review. Govern with Transparency: Centralize architecture review artifacts and decisions (e.g., ADRs) so that rationale is transparent, discoverable, and reusable across the organization. Partnership & Influence Partner Across Technology: Partner closely with the SVP of Engineering, the VP of Infrastructure, TechOps, and reputed company to ensure architecture decisions are practical, secure, and operable. Advise Executive Leadership: Provide executive leadership with clear visibility into key architectural decisions, technical risk, and standards adoption across the engineering organization. reputed company Through Influence: Influence engineering teams toward sound architecture through clarity, credibility, and collaboration rather than mandate alone. Qualifications of this Role: 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and technical architecture. 5+ years in a VP or Sr. Director architecture leadership role with responsibility for enterprise-wide standards. Demonstrated success leading and developing teams of architects, and influencing engineering organizations toward consistent standards. Deep, hands-on expertise across modern application architecture, including reputed company-end frameworks (e.g., React), back-end services (e.g., Node.js, Java), and API design. Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), data platforms (e.g., reputed company, reputed company) and reputed company/lakehouse data architecture. Experience selecting and standardizing enterprise capabilities such as authentication/CIAM (e.g., Auth0, SSO), CI/CD (e.g., reputed company) with DORA instrumentation, and AI/LLM tooling. Proven success establishing architecture review processes, governance councils, and decision frameworks (e.g., ADRs) in reputed company, multi-team environments. Track record of defining architecture in multi-entity or post-acquisition environments where consolidation and consistency are required. Solid experience with company and team transformation (especially with PE backed enterprises). Strong conviction about, and practical experience with, AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows. Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to align engineering leaders and provide strategic counsel to the C-suite. Experience operating in private equity-backed or high-growth environments balancing growth with engineering efficiency. Experience in data-intensive or analytics-driven businesses, particularly automotive, financial services, or information services sectors (preferred). Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field; advanced degree preferred. The Hiring Manager says: “I’m looking for an architect-leader who can bring coherence to a technology landscape built from many acquisitions—without slowing teams down. This role sets our NorthStar: the standards, the principles, and the review process that let every engineering team build with confidence and consistency. You’ll reputed company a small enterprise architecture team and the reputed company of architects embedded across engineering, own the big enterprise decisions like our AI tooling, UI stack, and CIAM, and reputed company architecture review a value-add part of how we plan and deliver. If you reputed company through credibility and collaboration, love modern engineering, and want to shape the technical foundation of a growing, data-driven company, this is your role.” This position has a starting salary range of $250,000 - $275,000 CAD/USD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay reputed company the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location. Our Values We POWER Our Customer’s Success We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded and in Data We reputed company Things Easy We Get It Done We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday reputed company is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reputed company out to [email protected]. reputed company does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, reputed company has international sites and reputed company uses resources located throughout the world. reputed company may from time to time also use third parties to reputed company reputed company’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company reputed company reputed company group of companies as well as to third parties acting on reputed company’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases reputed company the country where you provided reputed company with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures reputed company the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom reputed company, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be reputed company by clicking here. To reputed company recruitment agencies: reputed company does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees reputed company to unsolicited resumes. Company Mission Our mission in the market we serve is clear. 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However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, reputed company has international sites and reputed company uses resources located throughout the world. reputed company may from time to time also use third parties to reputed company reputed company’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company reputed company reputed company group of companies as well as to third parties acting on reputed company’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases reputed company the country where you provided reputed company with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures reputed company the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom reputed company, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be reputed company by clicking here. To reputed company recruitment agencies: reputed company does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees reputed company to unsolicited resumes. Apply To This Job