Senior Director, Solution Architecture

The Senior Director, Solution Architecture leads the solution and domain architects who design the architecture for programs and projects across Sherwin-Williams' business portfolios and technology platforms. The role owns the people, the practice and the capacity: who is hired and developed, how architects are assigned and prioritized, and the quality and consistency of the designs they deliver. It operates within the target states set by the Principal Portfolio Architects and the standards set by the Principal Practice Architects, and makes sure both land in every design. Its first-year priority is bringing architects from several ETG organizations into one operating model without disrupting work in flight.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution and domain architecture organization: hiring, development, performance and succession for the architects and the leaders of its groups
• Own architect assignment and capacity: allocate architects to programs and projects by priority, balance load across groups and surface capacity gaps before they stall delivery
• Own the quality and consistency of solution architecture: deliverable standards, peer review and conformance to portfolio target states and practice standards
• Bring architects arriving from other ETG organizations into one operating model: common roles, expectations, engagement model and career paths, with minimal disruption to in-flight work
• Partner with the Principal Portfolio and Practice Architects so that target states and standards reach every design, and resolve conflicts between delivery pressure and architecture direction
• Own the engagement model with portfolio and platform delivery leaders: how work reaches architects, how it is prioritized and what delivery can expect from them
• Raise the hands-on technical bar: architects prototype, use AI code assist and agentic tooling in their work and stay current in their platforms
• Report architect capacity, utilization and delivery outcomes to the Enterprise Architecture leadership team, and represent solution architecture in architecture governance

This is a remote position.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years in technology
• 5+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering
• 8+ years in architecture roles
• 5+ years as a people manager of architects or senior engineers, including leading leaders, with ownership of hiring, performance and development
• Experience running a solution architecture function at enterprise scale across multiple business areas: assignment, capacity, quality and the engagement model with delivery
• Experience integrating or consolidating technical teams from separate organizations without disrupting delivery
• Working knowledge of the enterprise application and platform landscape across business and technology portfolios, or the ability to build it quickly
• Track record of holding architecture quality under delivery pressure and of partnering with delivery leaders as a peer

Travel: 20%

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

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