Director, Platform Modernization & AI Strategy

AccuWeather Careers; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Director, AFB Technologies to guide the technical strategy for AccuWeather for Business (AFB). You will lead modernization across the web, mobile apps, APIs, and data capabilities, partnering with product, security, and operations to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

The role focuses on strengthening security, expanding AI usage across engineering, and driving SOC 2 readiness while aligning investments with enterprise customer needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, technology leadership, enterprise applications, digital platforms, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years of experience leading and developing software engineering or technology teams.
• Demonstrated experience defining technology strategy and leading the modernization of existing applications, services, APIs, or data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and organizational leadership for the AFB web portal, mobile applications, APIs, and AFB-specific data capabilities.
• Develop a deep understanding of existing AFB systems, integrations, dependencies, data flows, technical debt, and operational processes to establish a clear baseline for future investment.
• Define and execute a technology strategy and modernization roadmap that balances new capabilities, customer commitments, reliability, security, technical debt, and sustainability.
• Partner closely with Product, Technology, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate AFB business and customer needs into scalable technical solutions and priorities.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve software development, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and overall productivity.
• Identify and lead opportunities to incorporate AI into AFB platforms and workflows where it can create meaningful customer value, improve operational efficiency, simplify complex data, or enable new enterprise capabilities while maintaining appropriate security and governance.

Skills

Tech leadership

AI in software engineering

Security & SOC 2

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Director, AFB Technologies to guide the technical strategy for AccuWeather for Business (AFB). You will lead modernization across the web, mobile apps, APIs, and data capabilities, partnering with product, security, and operations to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

The role focuses on strengthening security, expanding AI usage across engineering, and driving SOC 2 readiness while aligning investments with enterprise customer needs.