Director, Technical Architecture
Overview
kCura is a global company with team members who are driven by our customers to build exceptional software for them to use every day. Our product, called Relativity, handles large volumes of data and helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies solve their own unique data problems.
The way we work together is centered on our core values of collaborating, communicating, pushing to exceed expectations (even our own), being humble, and having fun while we do it. We enjoy ourselves, give back, and work (and play) hard together. If this sounds like the place for you, check out the details of this position below.
The Director of Technical Architecture will be a leader at kCura who is both highly technical but also business savvy. This person will be responsible for leading a team of technical architects and for setting the architectural vision across kCura’s technical landscape. This individual will lead the architecture strategy for the company’s suite of products and work collaboratively across all functional departments in an effort to support the long term product vision.
Responsibilities
The Director of Technical Architecture is responsible for the following:
Standards
- Set, communicate, and govern technical standards throughout the product development organization. This includes the standards for the architecture itself and working closely with our delivery teams in setting standards of how the work gets done (i.e. coding standards, code reviews, security requirements, etc.)
Architecture
- Drive the creation and implementation of architecture standards and artifacts by working collaboratively with the Engineering leadership team
- Collaborate with the Architecture team to develop the architecture, build the backlog, and adjust the design as necessary. Collaborate with the Product Management team to make sure the voice of architecture is part of the Product Roadmap.
- Lead technology evaluations and framework selections to choose the most appropriate technology that meets the current and future business needs.
- Analyze the risks, benefits, and opportunities associated with a technology solution
Planning and Design
- Translate product requirements to system level architecture, creates architecture roadmaps and high-level designs. Work with technical leads [CW1] to develop detailed designs.
- Present, educate, and promote the system architecture in Engineering.
Research and Development
- Maintaine knowledge of and seek to understand current trends in new technology
- Have a progressive vision to look forward for our product in development for 3 years or more in the future.
- Assist in the evaluation of technology for future acquisition
Collaboration across Product Development
- Facilitate negotiation between Product Management and Engineering to advance the development of our product
- Ensure that overall enterprise architecture is inclusive of all stakeholder viewpoints and are vetted to ensure that artifacts support, reflect, advance, and integrate as intended
- Work closely with Engineering in building and governing processes to improve and evolve the software development process at kCura (tooling, standards, code reviews).
- Evaluating the long term product plan and ensuring that we’re anticipating architecture needs.
Lead a team of employees
- Being able to develop raw technical talent into sophisticated technical architects
- Provide personal development, mentorship, and career management to the team members
- Provide coaching and mitigate employee relations issues
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related disciplines
- 10+ years of software development of commercial-grade systems and applications with a proven track record of building and leading successful engineering teams
- Excellent Knowledge of the new technology trends and its applications for the new products in the market place.
- Excellent Knowledge of Software Engineering Discipline, including hands-on knowledge of Latest Programming Languages, Object-Oriented Programming, High-Performance, Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Distributed DBMS and DB modeling and access languages.
- Strong People Management skills
- Strong technical understanding of the Microsoft technology stack
- Proven experience assessing business requirements
- Strong leadership skills, ability to perform under the pressure and deliver complex technical solutions
- Superior communication skills with ability to relate with both technical and business professionals
- Full knowledge of and adherence to Software Development Life Cycle best practices
- In depth knowledge of Agile Project Development Methodologies
About Us
Our software has more than 130,000 active users in more than 40 countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice and more than 190 of the Am Law 200. We have grown significantly over the last several years and continue striving to build software that helps solve our customers’ toughest e-discovery and unstructured data challenges.
If you’re ready to grow with us, we’d love to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.