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Posted YesterdaySenior Director – Enterprise Architecture
at Goosehead Insurance – The Flock Agency
On-site
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a comprehensive enterprise architecture strategy that aligns with business goals
- Define and enforce architecture best practices, standards, conventions, and guidelines for technology practices definitions across diverse technology teams.
- Solution Design and Governance (30%):
- Lead the enterprise architecture design and implementation of full-stack development of modern service APIs
- Lead the design and roadmap definition of the migration of mission-critical enterprise solutions, ensuring alignment with business
- Establish governance frameworks for technology decisions that include business stakeholders, owning the non-functional system
- Evaluate and recommend tools, platforms, and technologies to drive continuous improvement across the business
- Collaborate with IT, data, and security teams to align architectural solutions with the company’s technology stack and security requirements
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of enterprise architects and technical leads, with a focus on rigor, scalability, security, performance, availability, observability, and Agentic AI.
- Recruit, train, and retain top talent, fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and high performance.
- Manage offshore resources with diligence Innovation & Continuous Improvement (10%):
- Identify and implement new tools, technologies, and practices to maintain a cutting-edge architecture environment.
- Promote an architecture-centric culture across the technology organization and within the broader Goosehead business
Requirements
- experience to lead the company’s architecture strategy and implementation.
- The ideal candidate will work with IT leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and performant architecture solutions spanning front-end, back-end, Salesforce, and cloud environments.
- These practices include software development with skill-assisted AI, data architecture, machine learning and Agentic AI
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 12+ years of
- experience in software engineering, software architecture, or enterprise architecture, including significant
- experience leading architecture for distributed, high-scale platforms.
- experience managing senior architects, principal engineers, or comparable senior technical individual contributors.
- Experience partnering with Product Management and Engineering leadership to define architecture strategy, roadmaps, and execution plans for complex product portfolios.
- Experience establishing architecture governance, decision frameworks, standards, and review processes that improve consistency and delivery quality across multiple teams.
- Strong knowledge of modern cloud-native architecture, including Agentic AI frameworks and design, AI-assisted code generation, service-oriented APIs, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, SRE, resiliency patterns, observability, and security-by-design.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architectural direction for complex data-intensive and transaction-oriented systems with high
- Proven ability in portfolio management; evaluate tradeoffs across build/buy/customize/deprecate strategies and to communicate technical decisions effectively to executive, product, and engineering audiences. Benefits Summary
Experience
- 10+ years of people leadership
Benefits
- About Goosehead Since 2003, Goosehead Insurance has been disrupting the insurance industry by giving clients the power of choice, utilizing a smarter marketing approach, and delivering world-class service.
- Job Summary Goosehead Insurance is seeking a Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture with strong full-stack development and Salesforce
- Stay current with industry trends in AI and working with LLMs to create predictive models and generate code with human-in-the-loop process, machine learning cloud platforms, and architecture frameworks, ensuring Goosehead Insurance remains at the forefront of technology.
- Background in insurance and high-regulation environments helpful but not required Required Skills and Abilities
- High quality voluntary health, vision, disability, life, and dental insurance programs 401K Matching Plan
- Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave
Additional details
- This is all powered by our focus on hiring and retaining extraordinary people.
- Our clients trust us with their most valuable possessions, so we’re more than just a bit selective when it comes to hiring new team members.
- This role focuses on creating and maintaining architecture standards and roadmaps that enhance technical infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on service-oriented and event-driven architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Responsibilities Architecture Strategy & Leadership (30%):
- Partner with senior leadership to evaluate technology trends and identify business opportunities that support the company’s objectives and promote innovation across our portfolio and technology stack.
- requirements and technical standards for data, infrastructure, and application architecture. This includes integrations with key partners as well as internal and franchise-facing systems
- requirements in all solutions Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement (10%):
- Work with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, and operations to understand business needs and translate them into effective, scalable technical solutions.
- Serve as a technical liaison, advocating for architectural principles and defining and promoting best practices across all departments. Team Leadership & Development (10%):
- Provide coaching and guidance on architectural best practices, project management, and service-oriented API development to enhance team capabilities.