Enterprise Tech Director: Platforms, AI & Modernization

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James Financial, Inc. seeks a senior technology leader to guide multiple engineering teams across locations from the St. Petersburg office. You will define technology strategy, roadmaps, and ensure production stability, security, and agile delivery across the portfolio.

The role emphasizes API-first, event-driven architectures, cloud readiness, and driving modernization while reducing technical debt. Occasional off-hours and on-call duties may apply.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams across geographies.
• Proven track record in API-first, event-driven architectures.
• Strong background in cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability.
• Experience modernizing legacy apps and production systems.
• Ability to develop technology leaders and align with business leaders.
• Experience managing vendors and technology budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams across geographic locations, including managers, architects, tech leads, developers, and analysts.
• Establish technology strategy and roadmaps aligned with business objectives and enterprise architecture.
• Own architecture, engineering, delivery, production stability, resiliency, and technical health.
• Provide technical leadership across full-stack development, APIs, microservices, integration frameworks, cloud technologies.
• Drive modernization toward API-first, event-driven, modular architectures.
• Maintain highly available production environments, including incident/change management and disaster recovery.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability.
• Champion Generative AI, ML, and agentic technologies in engineering and operations.
• Manage workforce capacity, vendors, priorities, and investment decisions.
• Develop technology leaders and foster accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate strategy, risks, incidents, and investments to senior leaders.
• Participate in production support and executive escalations, including nights and on-call.

Skills

Tech leadership

SDLC & modernization

Java/Spring Boot API

Full-stack development

Distributed systems

Cloud & DevOps

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

APIs

Microservices

Job description

Raymond James Financial, Inc. seeks a senior technology leader to guide multiple engineering teams across locations from the St. Petersburg office. You will define technology strategy, roadmaps, and ensure production stability, security, and agile delivery across the portfolio.

The role emphasizes API-first, event-driven architectures, cloud readiness, and driving modernization while reducing technical debt. Occasional off-hours and on-call duties may apply.