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About Outseer

At Outseer, we are empowering our customers to liberate the world from digital fraud. Our market-leading enterprise fraud and authentication platform is used by thousands of financial institutions around the world to protect millions of customer accounts and billions of transactions annually. Leveraging proven data science, including our proprietary consortium data, our customers use our risk-based, machine learning platform to deliver the highest fraud detection rates, lowest false positive rates, and lowest customer intervention in the industry. We stop fraud, not customers. See what others can't at outseer.com.

What You'll Achieve

The Director of Architecture is a strategic technology leader responsible for defining, driving, and evolving Outseer's software architecture to meet current and future business needs. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership to ensure our products are scalable, secure, performant, and aligned with the company's product and growth strategies. You will lead architectural governance, guide technical decision-making, and partner closely with product, engineering, and security teams to deliver world-class fraud prevention solutions. A strong passion for and experience with agentic AI and large language model (LLM) development is essential to drive innovation and shape the future of our fraud prevention platform.

Essential Duties

• Team Mentorship and Development: Inspire, and mentor a small team of skilled, tenured Architects, encouraging a collaborative and inclusive work environment. Foster a culture of continuous learning, professional growth, and career development within the software engineering team.
• Architecture Leadership: Define and maintain the enterprise and product architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business goals.
• Technical Governance: Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and best practices across the organization.
• Collaboration & Influence: Partner with product management to translate business needs into technical capabilities.
• Innovation & Scalability: Drive the modernization of platforms toward microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native deployments.
• Agile / SAFe Practices: Lead and champion agile / SAFe development methodologies, promoting efficiency, productivity, and quality in software development processes.
• Culture Building: Lead a positive, inclusive, and equitable culture within the organization, ensuring everyone feels valued and their contributions matter.

Desired Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in an architecture leadership role.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed, cloud-based enterprise software solutions.
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns (microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven, layered architecture).
• Proven passion for and hands-on experience with agentic AI and LLM development.
• Strong background in security, identity management, and fraud prevention or financial services systems.
• Expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in B2B SaaS product companies serving financial services, e-commerce, or payment processing clients.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and data analytics architectures for fraud detection.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Desired Behaviors

• Strategic Alignment: Cascades strategic goals into departmental goals, ensuring alignment between the two.
• Execution Focus: Sets high performance standards and drives execution.
• Change Leadership: Drives change by challenging assumptions, taking responsibility for leading and executing change initiatives.
• Effective Decision-Making: Makes sound and timely decisions using problem-solving, decision-making, and planning tools.
• Employee Development: Recognizes and understands the development needs and aspirations of employees.
• Employee Well-Being: Knows employees individually and cares for their well-being.
• Clear Communication: Over-communicates by clearly translating corporate goals into departmental goals and targets.
• Employee Engagement: Creates an environment that values listening to employees and encourages them to communicate their ideas.
• Ethical Conduct and Competence: Displays ethical character and competence, building trust through actions that align with integrity and intent.
• Role Modelling: Serves as a role model for others by displaying high levels of commitment and energy.

Outseer is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Outseer are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Outseer will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Outseer encourages applicants of all ages.