Senior Director, Architecture

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $190.8k - $272.6k / year

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Ping Identity

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2002

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $35M Series F - Ping Identity on 2014-09

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

Ping Identity is a leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, delivering secure, scalable, and flexible identity services for enterprises and large organizations. The company offers cloud and on-premises platforms (including PingOne and Helix AI-powered capabilities) to manage authentication, access, orchestration, fraud prevention, and decentralized identity across customers, employees, and third parties. Ping Identity focuses on reducing fraud, improving user experiences, and supporting complex deployment needs for sectors like government, financial services, healthcare, retail, and media.

📋 Description

• Define and drive enterprise and product architecture strategy aligned with business goals. • Lead architectural decisions across cloud, platform, application, data, security, and integration domains. • Establish architecture principles, governance, reference architectures, and engineering standards. • Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, APIs, and data architectures. • Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security. • Champion developer productivity, platform engineering, automation, and operational excellence. • Evaluate emerging technologies and translate innovation into practical business value. • Lead technical due diligence efforts for acquisitions, including platform evaluation, architecture assessment, scalability analysis, security posture review, technical debt assessment, and integration planning. • Partner with executive leadership, corporate development, and product teams to assess acquisition targets and integration strategies. • Build and mentor a high-performing architecture organization and technical leadership community. • Collaborate with executive leadership on technology investments, roadmaps, and strategic initiatives. • Influence cross-functional teams through technical leadership, communication, and organizational alignment. • Embed AI-first thinking into platform, product, and engineering strategies, including the use of AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled product capabilities.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles. • Proven experience designing and scaling large distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. • Strong expertise in security, identity, APIs, data architecture, and modern application platforms. • Experience leading architecture across complex enterprise environments. • Experience conducting technical due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, including evaluation of architecture, engineering maturity, security, scalability, operational readiness, and integration complexity. • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and large engineering organizations. • Deep understanding of modern software development practices including DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, and platform engineering. • AI-first mindset with practical experience applying AI technologies to software development, operational efficiency, platform capabilities, or customer experiences. • Strong communication, collaboration, and strategic thinking skills. • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule • Parental Leave • Progressive Healthcare Options • Retirement Programs • Opportunity for Education Reimbursement • Commuter Offset (Specific locations)