Director, Enterprise Architecture & Engineering

Enterprise Architecture and Technical Leadership:

• Set enterprise architecture strategy, principles, decision rights, and reusable reference patterns across client portfolio.
• Lead complex architecture decisions and design reviews balancing business value, security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
• Define how Salesforce, Apex, Python, APIs, data, integration, cloud services, and analytics work together.

Engineering Systems, AI, Security, and Compliance:

• Build and drive adoption of a standardized engineering operating system spanning source control, CI/CD, and incident learning.
• Establish Kicksaw's production AI and agentic engineering approach with grounded data, guardrails, and lifecycle management.
• Embed security, privacy, and compliance into architecture including encryption, audit logging, and vulnerability management.

Team Leadership and Organizational Scale:

• Directly manage engineers and technical leaders with accountability for hiring, performance, coaching, and career development.
• Build Principal and Lead-level bench strength to scale technical quality beyond one expert.
• Create clear expectations, capability paths, and communities of practice to help the team grow through friction and ambiguity.

Client and Business Partnership:

• Build trusted relationships with client CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, and security leaders.
• Partner with Sales and Delivery on qualification, solution shaping, estimation, and executive presentations.
• Connect technical decisions to client outcomes, revenue, margin, and account growth through differentiated offerings.