Director, Digital Consulting | Enterprise Architecture

Who is Trace3

Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate Automate Innovate.

Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it!

Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine California. We employ more than 1200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver Indianapolis Grand Rapids Lexington Los Angeles Louisville Texas San Francisco.

Ready to discover the possibilities that live in technology

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Street-Smart-Thriving in Dynamic Times

We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the big picture. We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems.

Juice -The Stuff it takes to be a Needle Mover

We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal mentallymapping outevery checkpoint on the pathway to success and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like.

Teamwork -Humble Hungry and Smart

We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the companys mission. We treat others with respect admit mistakes give credit where its due and demonstrate transparency. We bring the weather by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials struggles and failures not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Trace3 is expanding its team of Enterprise Architecture leaders across complementary specialties; successful candidates may be very deep in one primary domain such as Security Cloud Data AI Platform Engineering Resilience or Enterprise Applications while demonstrating the judgment and curiosity to stretch across adjacent addition to driving account growth executive relationships and delivery quality this Director serves as a technical-continuity owner across the account and as part of a broader architecture bench that collectively covers Trace3s key domains.

The role connects architecture and technology decisions to business strategy and funded outcomes ensures solution coherence across Cloud Data AI Security and related domains and gives Trace3 credibility with CIOs CTOs CISOs architects and engineering teams. This is a hands-on leadership role: the Director remains close enough to the work to review infrastructure-as-code platform configurations and engineering designs directly stabilize accounts under pressure and lead through influence technical judgment and commercial awareness.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Provide the accounts architecture point of view: reference architectures target-state design and technology decisions tied to business cases.
• Ensure multi-domain solution coherence and non-functional integrity across engagements.
• Originate and shape technically credible pursuits and multi-domain programs.
• Elevate Trace3s standing with technical executives and engineering stakeholders.
• Operate as part of a complementary Enterprise Architecture team bringing a distinctive domain spike while collaborating with other architect sub-types to provide full-stack coverage across Trace3s priority domains.
• Serve as the named Digital Account Lead for assigned flagship and enterprise accounts when designated or as the senior architecture lead within another Directors account strategy and governance model when a different Digital Account Lead owns the overall client outcome.
• Build and maintain the account strategy executive relationship plan stakeholder and initiative maps engagement history account roadmap opportunity priorities and cross-domain expansion thesis.
• Originate qualify shape and advance pursuits that align to client priorities Trace3s right-to-win and available delivery capabilities.
• Orchestrate account sales domain practice business-unit partner and delivery leaders around one integrated account strategy and client experience.
• Maintain sufficient proximity to every active engagement to independently understand delivery health client sentiment scope financial position major dependencies risks solution integrity and progress toward the business case.
• Bring in peer Directors and specialists when another domain is required. On accounts led by another Director operate as the domain lead within the named Digital Account Leads account strategy and governance model.

Enterprise Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Own account-level architecture continuity: current-state assessment target-state and reference architectures technology selection and non-functional requirements across the Directors primary domain and adjacent Trace3 domains including Cloud Data AI Security Platform Engineering Resilience Enterprise Applications and Integration where relevant.
• Review and provide substantive feedback on key technical and architectural areas (or work with SMEs to do so)
• Ensure solutions across engagements to integrate coherently and align to Trace3 well-architected and resilience standards.
• Serve as the senior technical authority in client and internal forums; guide engineers architects and practice teams without owning line management of them.
• Connect architecture decisions to business strategy cost risk and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with peer Enterprise Architecture Directors to assemble the right architecture team for each account balancing deep domain expertise with cross-domain integration and commercial relevance.
• Author architecture decision records reference patterns and standards as a normal part of the workcapturing the decision constraints alternatives and rationale so the reasoning survives beyond the engagement and the individual.

Delivery Excellence and Value Realization

• Champion delivery quality governance risk management and benefits realization on complex multi-workstream programs.
• Guide solution quality across transformation initiatives; ensure adoption and value tracking.
• Own escalations and account recovery. Step into engagements that are blocked degraded or off-planincluding access and environment failures platform and integration blockers delivery or reporting gaps and disputes over scope hours or commercial termsand drive them to resolution with the client and internal teams.
• People Leadership and Practice Maturity
• Mentor and develop technical consultants and architects; build architecture leverage across the account team.
• Productize the accounts success model. Where an approach or methodology demonstrably works drive into a documented transferable playbook that other account teams can adopt without the original author present.
• Contribute reference architectures accelerators and frameworks to the relevant product lines and Guilds.

QUALIFICATIONS & INTERESTS:

• Bachelors degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or related field.
• 12 years in enterprise or solution architecture technology strategy principal engineering or technical advisory with demonstrated client-facing leadership and measurable outcomes.
• Deep technical depth in one or more relevant enterprise architecture domains with practical fluency across adjacent domains such as Cloud Data AI Security Platform Engineering Resilience Enterprise Applications and Integration.
• AI-native working fluency: uses AI tooling as a normal part of the job to accelerate analysis generate client-grade artifacts and prototype ideas quickly with the judgment to validate outputs before they reach a client. This is about how the candidate works not only what they architect.
• Demonstrated ability to connect architecture to business strategy and funded roadmaps and to influence CIOs CTOs architects and engineers.
• Ability to work in a team-of-architects model where coverage specialization reference architectures and quality standards are coordinated across accounts rather than owned by one individual alone.
• Experience shaping technically credible pursuits and multi-domain solutions; ability to grow accounts without needing to be a traditional salesperson.
• Executive presence with strong communication; sufficient digital-account-lead breadth and delivery accountability to be effective beyond architecture alone.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Architecture credentials such as TOGAF and platform certifications across cloud data AI or security.
• Experience with well-architected reviews resilience and reliability engineering or reference-architecture development at enterprise scale.
• Depth in one of the target architect sub-types such as enterprise security cloud infrastructure data and AI platform engineering resilience enterprise applications integration or regulated-industry architecture.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development and content tooling to compress delivery cycles and a point of view on where it is and is not appropriate in client work.
• Experience designing or securing agentic AI workloads or establishing governance and guardrails for AI platforms in an enterprise environment.
• Prior experience operating in a two-in-the-box or account-team model with sales and delivery partners.

The Perks

• Comprehensive medical dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match 529 College Savings Plan Health Savings Account Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Competitive Compensation
• Training and development programs
• Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages
• Collaborative and cool culture
• Work-life balance and generous paid time off

Our Commitment

At the core of Trace3s DNA is our people. We are a diverse group of talented individuals who understand the importance of teamwork and demonstrating leadership character and passion in all that we do.

Were committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected valued and empowered to grow. We recognize that embracing diversity drives innovation improves outcomes fosters collaboration boosts teammate satisfaction and builds a more inclusive culture.

As an equal opportunity employer Trace3 bases all employment decisions based on individual qualifications merit and business requirements. We do not engage in discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex (including gender identity sexual orientation and pregnancy) national origin age (40 or older) disability genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

Any demographic information provided is strictly voluntary kept confidential in accordance with Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations and will not be used in employment decisions including hiring promotions or mentorship programs. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all.

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