Director - Technology Innovation and Engineering

Job description

The purpose of this role is to lead the technology strategy of a new product by designing and scaling secure, production-grade SaaS platforms within regulated and compliance-driven environments. The role is responsible for leveraging modern AI capabilities to drive innovation in a responsible and practical way. It focuses on building and optimizing systems that combine workflow orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI to improve efficiency, decision-making, and overall product value. This role also ensures that emerging technologies are integrated safely and effectively into production systems. It requires balancing the acceleration that AI can provide with the appropriate constraints needed to maintain compliance, reliability, and trust. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Platform Architecture — Design and build the core permit object model, policy-pack engine, workflow state machines, and multi-tenant infrastructure with audit trails, compliance logging, and explainability as first-class system properties. - AI-Native Engineering — Meaningfully leverage AI development tools (copilots, test generation, documentation, refactoring) to establish AI-augmented workflows...