Technology Director – Enterprise Services & Business Platforms

Raymond James; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Hybrid work model

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Raymond James seeks a Technology Director to provide strategic and technical leadership for Enterprise Services and Business Platforms. You will drive architecture, modernization, and production stability across critical applications, leading multiple teams in a hybrid-staff model at the St. Petersburg area.

This role emphasizes AI-enabled engineering and strong collaboration with business leaders. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of general experience with 10–15 years in management, a

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership of multiple engineering teams across locations.
• Experience with architecture, modernization, delivery, and production operations.
• Proven track record building API-first and cloud-ready architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple technology teams across geographic locations.
• Establish technology strategy and roadmaps aligned with business objectives and architecture.
• Own architecture, engineering, delivery, production stability, resilience, and scale.
• Provide technical leadership across full-stack development, APIs, microservices, and cloud technologies.
• Drive modernization toward API-first, event-driven, modular architectures and reduce debt.
• Maintain highly available production environments, including DR and observability.
• Drive engineering excellence via automation, CI/CD, and secure software practices.
• Champion AI-assisted software engineering and apply GenAI/ML opportunities.
• Manage workforce, vendors, priorities, and investments balancing value and risk.
• Develop leaders and foster accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate strategy and investments to senior leaders; participate in on-call duties.

Skills

Technology leadership

SDLC experience

Java/Spring Boot

API-first architectures

Cloud platforms

DevOps/DevSecOps

Observability

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Angular

API gateways

Job description

Job Description Summary
The Technology Director will provide strategic and technical leadership for critical Enterprise Services & Business Platforms. This leader will have end-to-end accountability for technology strategy, architecture, engineering, modernization, delivery, and production stability across a portfolio of business-critical applications.
The Director will lead multiple engineering teams and technology leaders and partner closely with business, product, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data organizations. The role requires strong technical depth, people leadership, and the ability to drive engineering excellence while translating business priorities into scalable, resilient technology solutions.
Job Description
This position follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation to be in the office 3 days per week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office location.
Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.
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, enterprise architecture, modernization priorities, and organizational strategy.
• Own architecture, engineering, delivery, production stability, resiliency, scalability, and technical health across the application portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership across full-stack development, APIs, microservices, integration frameworks, workflow/decisioning platforms, cloud technologies, Angular, Java/Spring and distributed systems.
• Drive modernization toward API-first, event-driven, modular, and cloud-ready architectures while reducing technical debt.
• Maintain accountability for highly available production environments, including incident/problem/change management, disaster recovery, observability, performance, and root-cause remediation.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, resiliency, and measurable engineering standards.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted software engineering and identify opportunities to apply Generative AI, Machine Learning, and agentic technologies to engineering, operations, and business capabilities.
• Manage workforce capacity, vendors, technology priorities, and investment decisions while balancing business value, risk, modernization, and technical debt.
• Develop technology leaders and build a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate technology strategy, risks, incidents, and investment decisions effectively to senior business and technology leaders.
• Participate in production support and executive escalations, including nights, weekends, and on-call responsibilities when required.
  

Skills

• Significant technology leadership experience managing multiple engineering teams supporting large-scale, business-critical enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience across the SDLC, including architecture, engineering, modernization, delivery, and production operations.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale Java/Spring Boot API and microservices platforms including integration frameworks, distributed systems, and full-stack development.
• Strong understanding of modern solution architecture, including API-first and event-driven architectures, cloud platforms, DevOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, and observability.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications and operating highly available production platforms.
• Proven ability to develop technology leaders, manage geographically distributed teams, partner with senior business stakeholders, and influence across organizational boundaries.
  

Preferred Skills

• Financial-services, wealth-management, client-onboarding, or enterprise technology experience preferred.
• Experience with Generative AI/LLMs, Machine Learning, and agentic programming/AI architectures.
• Familiarity with GenAI patterns including RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering to improve development velocity, quality, modernization, testing, troubleshooting, or production operations.
• Financial-services, wealth-management, client-onboarding, or enterprise-services technology experience preferred.
  

Education
Bachelor's (Required)
Work Experience
General Experience - More than 15 years, Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years
Certifications
Travel
Less than 25%
Workstyle
Hybrid
The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.
At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
We Expect Our Associates At All Levels To

• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm
  

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.