Director, Enterprise Architecture – Engineering

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $175k - $275k / year

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Kicksaw

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • B2B • Enterprise

Kicksaw is a Salesforce-focused consulting firm that uses a fractional operations model to deliver implementation, data migration, process optimization, tool integration, contract & revenue operations (as a Conga + Salesforce partner), and hands-on training. They design scalable, user-friendly Salesforce solutions to simplify processes, connect data, and improve team productivity. Kicksaw serves clients across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Technology, and Financial Services, emphasizes flexible, remote-first engagements, and highlights 500+ clients, 350+ Salesforce certifications, and strong customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Set enterprise architecture strategy, principles, decision rights, and reusable reference patterns across Kicksaw's client portfolio • Lead complex architecture decisions and design reviews, balancing business value, security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost • Define how Salesforce, Apex, Python, APIs, data, integration, cloud services, and analytics work together • Turn recurring delivery risks into reusable standards and accelerators • Build and drive adoption of a standardized engineering operating system covering source control, branching, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, environments, release management, observability, rollback, and incident learning • Establish Kicksaw's production AI and agentic engineering approach • Create reusable AI development patterns for grounding, model access, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring • Evaluate Salesforce, integration, data, cloud, and AI technologies based on business fit and architectural evidence • Embed security, privacy, and compliance into architecture and delivery • Directly manage engineers and technical leaders, including hiring, performance, coaching, career development, succession, staffing, capacity, and team health • Build Principal and Lead-level bench strength and create capability paths, communities of practice, architecture reviews, and reusable examples • Lead through friction and red tape while making tradeoffs, exceptions, decisions, and escalation paths explicit • Build trusted relationships with client CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, security leaders, data leaders, and platform owners • Partner with Sales and Delivery on qualification, discovery, solution shaping, estimation, technical risk, executive presentations, and commitments • Connect technical decisions to client outcomes, delivery quality, operating cost, speed, resilience, revenue, margin, pipeline, retention, and account growth • Develop differentiated offerings, reference architectures, accelerators, and technical points of view

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, engineering, or technical consulting, including leadership across complex client programs or technical capabilities • Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification is highly preferred • Deep Salesforce architecture and engineering expertise, including Apex, Lightning, platform limits, data and sharing design, integration, security, environments, packaging, and release management • Strong engineering fluency beyond Salesforce, including Python, APIs, events, SQL, JavaScript or TypeScript, testing, automation, and application-design patterns • Enterprise technology breadth across Salesforce Data 360/Data Cloud, Informatica, MuleSoft or comparable integration platforms, cloud data platforms, AWS/Azure/GCP services, DevOps, and observability • Production AI or agentic-system experience covering grounding, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, observability, security, cost, human oversight, and lifecycle management • Experience designing secure systems in regulated environments and translating HIPAA, HITRUST, FedRAMP, NIST, SOC 2, privacy, or comparable obligations into practical controls • Experience standardizing CI/CD, automated quality and security controls, environment and release strategy, deployment evidence, rollback, and operational feedback across teams • Significant people-management experience leading engineers and technical leaders, developing successors, and raising quality without creating fear or dependency • A record of scaling an engineering organization and its contribution to business growth through talent, operating systems, reusable technology, disciplined investment, and delivery-led growth • Strong client, executive, and commercial judgment, with the initiative to explain complex tradeoffs, make decisions through ambiguity and friction, and remain accountable for outcomes

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work – Flexibility to do your best work from anywhere • Unlimited PTO • Learning & development stipend – Certifications, training, or conferences • Wellness support – Stipends and initiatives • Collaborative, values-driven culture • Clear growth path – Opportunities to advance into senior roles