Tech Director - Enterprise Platforms & Modernization

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking a Technology Director to provide strategic and technical leadership across Enterprise Services & Business Platforms. You will own architecture, modernization, and delivery, leading multiple engineering teams and partnering with business, product, and cybersecurity orgs.

The role requires deep technical depth, people leadership, and a commitment to engineering excellence while translating business priorities into scalable, resilient technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant technology leadership experience across large, business-critical enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience across the SDLC, including architecture, modernization, delivery, and production operations.
• Proven ability to design and operate large-scale Java/Spring Boot API and microservices platforms, with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams across geographic locations, including managers, architects, technical leads, developers, and analysts.
• Establish technology strategy and roadmaps aligned with business objectives and modernization priorities.
• Own architecture, engineering, delivery, production stability, resiliency, and technical health across the portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership across full-stack development, APIs, microservices, and cloud technologies.
• Drive modernization toward API-first, event-driven, modular architectures with reduced technical debt.
• Maintain highly available production environments, including incident/change management and disaster recovery.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, and observability.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted software engineering and GAI/ML opportunities.
• Manage workforce capacity, vendors, priorities, and investments balancing value and risk.
• Develop technology leaders and foster accountability and collaboration across teams.
• Communicate strategy, risks, incidents, and investments to senior leaders.
• Participate in production support and executive escalations as needed.

Skills

Tech leadership

SDLC experience

Java/Spring API

Microservices

Cloud architectures

CI/CD/Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Raymond James is seeking a Technology Director to provide strategic and technical leadership across Enterprise Services & Business Platforms. You will own architecture, modernization, and delivery, leading multiple engineering teams and partnering with business, product, and cybersecurity orgs.

The role requires deep technical depth, people leadership, and a commitment to engineering excellence while translating business priorities into scalable, resilient technology solutions.