Associate Director, Application & Product Architecture (AI)

Location: Coppell, Texas, United States; hybrid with 8 office days per month. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a hirify.global office during the recruitment process.

Compensation: $133,400–$238,400 USD annually, plus bonus eligibility.

Company

Business License helps organizations manage business licensing and regulatory compliance through license research, ordering, renewals, workflows, documentation, reporting, and ongoing compliance operations. The product portfolio is being modernized into a scalable cloud-based ecosystem with a focus on integrations, customer self-service, performance, and AI-enabled workflows.

What you will do

• Define and evolve target application and product architecture for the Business License portfolio.
• Translate licensing workflows and product strategy into scalable capabilities, services, APIs, domain models, and integration patterns.
• Create modernization roadmaps and incrementally decompose legacy applications using domain-driven design, bounded contexts, and strangler-style approaches.
• Establish service ownership, contracts, architectural guardrails, non-functional requirements, and service-level objectives.
• Architect enterprise-scale performance, resilience, observability, testing, security, diagnostics, and cloud cost awareness.
• Lead architecture reviews, resolve complex technical challenges, communicate trade-offs, and mentor technical leads and senior engineers.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and evolving complex enterprise applications, SaaS, or product architectures.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, modern web applications, APIs, service-oriented or microservice patterns, integration architecture, and cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated success modernizing large legacy applications while maintaining active customer delivery.
• Strong understanding of domain-driven design, service decomposition, data modeling, relational databases, performance engineering, resilience, observability, and secure architecture.
• Practical knowledge of generative AI patterns including retrieval-augmented generation, tool-enabled agents, evaluation, grounding, and human oversight.
• Ability to lead complex architecture initiatives across multiple teams and influence decisions without formal authority.
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills for explaining complex architecture to business and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers, technical leads, or architects.
• Architecture must support independently delivered customer capabilities, clear service boundaries and ownership, measurable performance and reliability, progressive legacy retirement, reusable APIs and intelligent capabilities, and improved delivery speed and system simplicity.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with 8 days per month onsite.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k), FSA/HSA, commuter benefits, and tuition assistance.
• Vacation, sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Architecture practices emphasize measurable reliability, safe change, security, human oversight, and practical governance.

Hiring process

• Candidates must participate in interviews without AI tools, AI-generated responses, external prompts, or third-party support; violations may result in disqualification.
• Virtual backgrounds must be removed, and in-person interviews are included in the process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a hirify.global office.