Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & Engineering

Job Description

This is an exceptional opportunity to take the lead in shaping and advancing our enterprise architecture, integration, and software engineering efforts. You will play a pivotal role in our technology transformation, driving innovation and defining the technical strategy in close collaboration with both business and technical teams. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead a talented team of 25 professionals, steering our technological evolution and ensuring the implementation of best-in-class standards across the organization.

Who You Are

• A Strong Leader: You effectively lead cross-functional teams, providing clear direction to help both direct and indirect team members achieve goals and collaborate cohesively.
• Intellectually Curious: You are driven by a natural curiosity, always seeking to understand the "why" behind challenges in order to uncover unconventional solutions.
• Detail-Oriented and Process-Focused: You excel at enhancing and enforcing control processes to ensure operational efficiency and consistency.
• A Trusted Team Player: You thrive in collaborative environments, building constructive relationships that foster teamwork and deliver outstanding results. You take ownership of your commitments and hold yourself accountable to your colleagues.
• Organized and Composed: You are adaptable, confident, and able to prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines while maintaining composure in high-pressure situations, interacting seamlessly with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• A Strong Communicator: You are articulate, persuasive, and effective in both verbal and written communication, enabling you to connect with and influence others with ease.
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Guide the evolution of EQR’s technical architecture, integration and engineering capabilities.
• Provide future state recommendation for go-forward capabilities, team alignment, and skills needed for success. Develop and execute a workforce strategy, including talent recruitment and development, resource utilization and allocation. Identify emerging capabilities and skills needed, develop and execute on plan.
• Guide teams through change management, supporting adoption of technical transformation and scaling of new architecture, integration and engineering practices.
• Provide leadership, management and mentorship to a team of architects and engineers, fostering horizontal leadership in a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Serve as the key technical advisor for our technical teams, business teams and our ecosystem of software providers to develop technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, opinion papers, and architecture decision frameworks that guide technology solutions, especially those requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems, and applications across the business.
• Serve as the key technical advisor for EQR’s major applications initiatives (such as modernizing the company’s legacy ERP, an on-premise solution to a cloud-based, scalable, modern architecture).
• Lead the implementation of a new integration platform and API strategy to modernize EQR’s capabilities. Design roadmap and standards.
• Implement and manage metrics, reporting and benchmarks for architecture, integration and engineering performance measurement.
• Deliver proof-of-concepts, provide advice on coding practices, attend meetings with vendors, evaluate vendors and technology, attend industry conferences, and perform architecture and code reviews.
• Build strong relationships with leaders across IT and the overall company to ensure alignment and goal achievement to execute on product roadmaps.
• Champion best practices and modern architecture, integration, and software development methods. Support and facilitate innovative and experimental practices to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.
• Work with the Cybersecurity leader and team to ensure architecture and software is effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.
• In collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations leaders, oversee DevOps processes and practices, including automating the handoff of code releases from development to operations, production performance, and other SLAs.
• Develop and maintain an Enterprise Architecture repository with current state architecture, standards, reference architectures, and capability maps.
• Represents the Company in a professional manner at all times. Consistently maintains a professional courteous attitude when dealing with residents, coworkers and the general public.
• Performs other duties as necessary.
  
  

Requirements & Experience

• 7 years of prior work experience, including 3 years in technical management. Prior experience as an Enterprise Architect or equivalent required.
• Bachelor's Degree, preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership and talent management skills.
• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Adaptable and innovative, with a drive for continuous improvement. Demonstrated ability to manage rapid change through digital transformation.
• Strong mentoring and change management skills.
• Strong understanding of cloud services, integration architectures and software development methodologies, tools, and platforms (cloud, web, client-server, etc.).
• Knowledge of AI, IoT, and advanced analytics is a plus.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with various levels and across the organization.
• Well-organized with an ability to multitask as needed and prioritize effectively.
  
  

Salary: $206,363 - $252,221 per year; in addition to base salary, a discretionary annual bonus is provided.

The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and qualifications.

Highlights Of The Wellbeing Benefits For Full-time Employees Include

• Physical Wellbeing: Medical, dental, vision care and wellness programs
• Social Wellbeing: Paid holidays, annual vacation time, paid sick leave, new parent benefits, adoption assistance
• Financial Wellbeing: Competitive Compensation, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Rent Discounts, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life & disability insurance
• Community Wellbeing: Paid Community Service Hours
• Career Wellbeing: Leadership Development, Tuition Assistance
  
  

Learn more about our Total Wellbeing program here.