Sr. Director & Head of Architecture

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<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.5;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">About Us</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">Our leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables clients to expand into over 180 countries quickly and efficiently, without the complexities of establishing local entities. At G-P, we’re dedicated to breaking down barriers to global business and creating opportunities for everyone, everywhere.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">Our diverse, remote-first teams are essential to our success. We empower our Dream Team members with flexibility and resources, fostering an environment where innovation thrives and every contribution is valued and celebrated.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">The work you do here will positively impact lives around the world. We stand by our promise: Opportunity Made Possible. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, we invite you to join us in expanding your skills and helping to reshape the future of work.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">At G-P, we assist organizations in building exceptional global teams in days, not months—streamlining the hiring, onboarding, and management process to unlock growth potential for all.</span></p></div><p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><strong>About The Position:</strong><strong><br></strong>As the Sr. Director &amp; 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.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">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, Engineering to harmonize technology decisions across the organization, ensuring our investment in technology translates directly into market-leading customer experiences</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><strong>What You Will Do:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Architectural Governance: Establish global standards for architecture consistency, ensuring all platform components maximize reuse and align with the long-term technology roadmap.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">AI First thinking: Oversee the architectural design of complex AI systems, AI enablement strategies, data engineering, and governance controls. Ensure that these are integrated into a cohesive strategy and implementation.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Customer Centricity: Everything we do is to serve our customers. Understanding the customers and the business is the only way to build strategies for it’s success.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Team Management &amp; Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Security &amp; Compliance: Define and create standards and governance mechanisms for software platform and infrastructure security to mitigate data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Innovation &amp; 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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Reliability &amp; Performance: Ensure system and infrastructure architecture results in high reliability, low latency, and minimal outages as a primary measure of organizational success.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Culture Builder: Help create a strong culture of innovation and technical excellence across the organization.</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><strong>What We Are Looking For:&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><strong>Minimum Requirements:</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Extensive Cloud Expertise: Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed, cloud-native architectures, especially AWS.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">AI First Product &amp; Tech Strategies : Experience&nbsp; with building AI Native products and technologies.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Strategic Communication: Demonstrated ability to gain buy-in for large-scale technical shifts from both executive leadership and hands-on engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Change Management: Experience leading architectural digital transformations within a rapidly growing or "unstructured" corporate environment.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze technology trade-offs through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">The annual gross base salary range for this position is $220,800 - $276,000 plus variabl