Head of Architecture

Role Description As the Sr. Director & Head of Architecture at G-P, you will be the visionary leader responsible for defining and executing the long-term technical strategy for our global products and AI platforms and influence technical decisions across the company. This is a high-impact, executive-level role that bridges the gap between complex engineering execution and high-level business objectives. You will oversee the evolution of our cloud-native ecosystem, ensuring our architecture is scalable, secure, and infused with cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will lead a high-performing team of Architects. You will work in close lockstep with Product Management and Engineering to harmonize technology decisions across the organization, ensuring our investment in technology translates directly into market-leading customer experiences. What You Will Do Strategic Technical Leadership: Define and strongly influence the execution of a target-state, AI-native architecture that supports both core software services and advanced AI Agentic behaviors. Architectural Governance: Establish global standards for architecture consistency, ensuring all platform components maximize reuse and align with the long-term technology roadmap. AI First thinking: Oversee the architectural design of complex AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls. Customer Centricity: Everything we do is to serve our customers. Understanding the customers and the business is the only way to build strategies for its success. Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning. Security & Compliance: Define and create standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to mitigate data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance. Technical Trade-offs: Act as a coach and decision maker with technical teams and business stakeholders, translating complex technical trade-offs when creating business impact. Innovation & Research: Serve as the ultimate "sounding board" for introducing new technologies, 3rd-party integrations, and open-source solutions to keep the platform at the forefront of the industry. Reliability & Performance: Ensure system and infrastructure architecture results in high reliability, low latency, and minimal outages as a primary measure of organizational success. Culture Builder: Help create a strong culture of innovation and technical excellence across the organization. Qualifications 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, building products and platforms with at least 5 years in a senior leadership or directorial capacity managing Architecture teams. Extensive Cloud Expertise: Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, especially AWS. AI First Product & Tech Strategies: Experience with building AI Native products and technologies. Strategic Communication: Demonstrated ability to gain buy-in for large-scale technical shifts from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams. Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations within a rapidly growing or "unstructured" corporate environment. Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI. Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Requirements The annual gross fixed pay range for this position is €160,800 - €201,000 plus variable compensation. Actual compensation for this position may vary and will depend on multiple factors such as relevant qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. For Full-Time Regular Employees, this position is also eligible for additional compensation as follows: Sales Roles: This position is eligible for a commission structure in addition to base salary. Non-Sales Roles: This position is eligible for an annual bonus which is paid dependent on various factors, including and without limitation, individual and company performance in addition to base salary. Benefits Generous paid parental leave. Flexible time off. Spending accounts. Medical insurance. Dental insurance. Vision insurance. Sabbatical after 5 years. And more.