Global Tech Strategy Director: AI & Platform Architecture

Seequent; Canterbury; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Seequent seeks a senior Technology Strategy leader to define and accelerate the company’s technology direction, enabling product teams with clear standards, shared capabilities, and scalable delivery.

You will lead architecture, AI services, HPC, and platform data strategy, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security, Data and Operations to drive impactful outcomes. This role is based in Canterbury, NZ, with a global scope and executive responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of leadership experience in software engineering, architecture, platform strategy, shared services, or enablement functions within a global product organization.
• Proven success defining technology strategy, standards, reference architectures and governance models with broad adoption.
• Strong expertise in modern software architecture, cloud platforms, HPC, platform data strategy, and shared tech services.
• Experience delivering machine learning and generative AI capabilities in production with governance and shared-service approaches.
• Deep understanding of how standards and governance enable scalable delivery and long-term sustainability.
• Executive-level stakeholder management to align with Product, Engineering, Security, Data, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and governance of Seequent's Technology Strategy roadmap, aligning technology investments with business priorities.
• Define and drive software architecture, platform data strategy, and HPC capabilities.
• Establish reference architectures, standards, governance, and reusable patterns across product teams.
• Lead adoption of machine learning and generative AI capabilities with shared platforms and governance.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure strategic technology decisions align with shared capabilities.
• Develop reference implementations, templates, and shared components to improve quality, security and performance.
• Drive adoption through enablement, documentation, training, and architecture engagement models.
• Measure impact of technology investments using adoption, leverage, health, and delivery metrics.
• Build and lead a high-performing global Technology Strategy organization through hiring, coaching and org design.

Skills

Technology strategy

Software architecture

Executive stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

High-performance computing

People leadership

Education

Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering/Computer Science

Job description

Seequent seeks a senior Technology Strategy leader to define and accelerate the company’s technology direction, enabling product teams with clear standards, shared capabilities, and scalable delivery.

You will lead architecture, AI services, HPC, and platform data strategy, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security, Data and Operations to drive impactful outcomes. This role is based in Canterbury, NZ, with a global scope and executive responsibilities.