Director of Tech Strategy Labs, Office of the CTO

We are looking for a Director of Tech Strategy Labs to lead a group of architects to investigate and implement next-generation technologies, focusing on AI-native development, AI security, and enterprise SDLC, challenge existing solutions and standards, and harness your technology acumen to influence business strategy, innovation, and product roadmaps critical to the future of the Platform.
As a Director of Tech Strategy Labs, your work will influence thousands of companies using the Platform to drive their software release pipeline to create better value.
As a Director of Tech Strategy Labs at the CTO Office, you will...
Directly manage the CTO Office architects
Manage selected software development projects end-to-end with the highest quality
Explore, evaluate, and prototype new and differentiating products and capabilities enabled through emerging technologies, leading techniques, and contemporary patterns to create our next world-class solutions and experiences
Help identify research opportunities and drive innovation, coming from understanding our vision, the problems we are set to solve, the pain of our customers, the voice of market analysts and partners
Partner with community working groups and initiatives, such as those led under the CNCF
Maintain a deep understanding of the architecture of new and existing solutions under the Platform and how they interoperate
Work closely with the CTO, Product, Developers, Sales Engineers, Security, and Business Strategy teams to achieve common goals
Challenge existing architecture and solutions to improve customer experience, increase efficiency, reduce risk, increase resiliency, and improve performance
Provide technical leadership by synthesizing and communicating complex information being researched, and advance the topics mentioned above
Advocate clean code and clean architecture principles, and ensure documentation with proper technical specifications.