Staff Technical Architect

appnovation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation seeks a Senior Technical Architect (Director level) to lead the technical strategy and oversee architecture for a global division. You will translate business priorities into a target architecture and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders while embedding with delivery teams to unblock complex challenges.

You will shape technology choices to be modern, secure, scalable, and reusable, guiding governance, reliability, and innovation across the division.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• Proven experience defining the technical strategy, architecture, or landscape for a major area.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in modern software engineering and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the division's technical strategy and target architecture.
• Own the division's technical landscape, standards, and reference architectures.
• Represent the division in the Architecture Review Board and align with enterprise standards.
• Ensure divisional tech needs map to enterprise platforms and reuse shared capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for new standards and reusable patterns at scale.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to divisional engineering teams.
• Define how AI, automation, and modern engineering practices are applied responsibly.

Skills

Technical architecture

Engineering

Technology strategy

Leadership

Enterprise architecture

AI-enabled delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Job description

About us

Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth. Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.

Technology is foundational to all of Appnovation's offerings, from consulting to digital innovation, to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms.

Inherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships.

Senior Technical Architect (Director level)

As a Senior Technical Architect (Director level), you will join a highly motivated and experienced team as the technical leader accountable for crafting the technical strategy and overseeing the technical landscape and architecture for one of our business divisions. You will shape the division's technical direction - ensuring its technology choices are modern, secure, scalable, reusable and aligned to enterprise architecture standards - translate divisional business priorities into a clear target architecture, and act as a trusted technical advisor to senior business and Digital leaders, enterprise architects and platform teams. While you operate at a strategic leadership level, you will also frequently wear the hat of a Forward Deployed Engineer, embedding yourself within delivery teams to navigate complex technical challenges, unblock execution and bridge the gap between architectural vision and operational reality. We are looking for a senior, hands-on technical expert who can create clarity from complexity, make sound architecture and technology choices, guide teams through influence, and set the technical direction that delivers faster, safer and more reusable digital capabilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Divisional Technology Strategy: Create and maintain the technical strategy for an ELT-level global division, connecting divisional business priorities, enterprise architecture standards, and emerging technology into a clear, actionable roadmap and target-state architecture.
• Architecture and Technical Landscape: Own and oversee the division's technical landscape and target architecture, defining key technical standards, integration patterns, and reference architectures, and ensuring technology decisions are sound, sustainable, and fit for scale.
• Architecture Review Board Decision-Making: Represent the division in the Architecture Review Board, evaluating proposed digital solutions, making informed architecture decisions, and approving or rejecting architecture requests alongside the ARB chair to ensure solutions align to divisional priorities, enterprise standards, platform strategy, security expectations, and long-term technical sustainability.
• Enterprise and Platform Alignment: Ensure divisional technology needs are mapped to enterprise platforms and standards, so the division reuses shared capabilities and integrates cleanly into the broader platform spine.
• Reusable Standards and Scaled Efficiencies: Identify opportunities to establish new technical standards, reusable patterns, and delivery efficiencies that solve divisional needs while creating approaches that can be adopted and scaled across other divisions and enterprise platforms.
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Partner with global senior divisional business and Digital leaders as a trusted advisor, translating ambiguous needs into practical technical choices, delivery models, and measurable outcomes.
• AI-Enabled Delivery: Define how AI, automation, and modern engineering practices are responsibly applied within the division to increase speed, improve quality, strengthen decision-making, and maintain appropriate governance and verification.
• Technical Guidance and Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to divisional engineering and delivery teams, raising technical standards and building capability through influence rather than direct authority.
• Reliability, Security, and Governance: Establish and uphold expectations for reliability, security, documentation, and operational excellence across the division's technical landscape, ensuring it is compliant, observable, and resilient.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, with proven experience in technical architecture, engineering, or technology strategy.
• Demonstrated experience defining the technical strategy, architecture, or technical landscape for a significant business area, product, or technology domain.
• Deep, hands‑on technical expertise in m