Senior Technical Architect: Strategy & AI Delivery

Appnovation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead the technical strategy for a global division, shaping target architectures and guiding complex technical challenges.

You will embed with delivery teams as a Forward Deployed Engineer, ensuring secure, scalable, and reusable digital capabilities aligned with enterprise standards. Strong leadership and hands-on technical excellence are required.

Qualifications

• Experience defining the technical strategy, architecture, or landscape for a significant business area or product.
• Hands-on technical expertise in modern engineering practices, cloud, data and integration patterns, APIs, security, and reliability.
• Experience acting as a technical advisor or design authority, guiding teams through influence rather than authority.
• Experience partnering with business and Digital stakeholders to shape technical direction and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the divisional technology strategy and target-state architecture.
• Own the division’s technical landscape, standards, and reference architectures.
• Represent the division in the Architecture Review Board and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Map divisional needs to enterprise platforms and shared capabilities for reuse.
• Identify opportunities for reusable patterns and delivery efficiencies at scale.
• Partner with senior leaders as a trusted technical advisor.
• Define responsible AI, automation, and modern engineering practices within the division.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and delivery teams.
• Uphold reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence across the landscape.

Skills

Technical architecture

Cloud platforms

APIs & integration

Security & reliability

Advisory & influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Advanced degree in technology/engineering

Job description

Appnovation is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead the technical strategy for a global division, shaping target architectures and guiding complex technical challenges.

You will embed with delivery teams as a Forward Deployed Engineer, ensuring secure, scalable, and reusable digital capabilities aligned with enterprise standards. Strong leadership and hands-on technical excellence are required.