Director - SaaS Technical Lead

Job Requisition ID: 41236 

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Technical director owning platform architecture, engineering delivery, and AI strategy for a multi-pillar enterprise SaaS product in supply chain risk intelligence. Leads 7–8 engineers. Serves as technical advisor to account leadership and client stakeholders. Consulting/professional services environment. 

What will your typical day look like?

Platform & Architecture 

Owns architecture across frontend, backend, data, infra, and AI agent systems as one product. Sets technical roadmap. Designs for human and AI agent consumers. Produces formal architecture artifacts for compliance and security gates. 

Engineering Delivery & Operations 

Owns DevSecOps: deployment strategy, security gates, release governance. Defines engineering standards and operating models. Drives vendor integration across third-party pipelines. Tracks deployment frequency, defect escape rate, production stability. 

Client & Commercial Engagement 

Solution architect in pre-sales and engagement shaping. Scopes feasibility, writes proposals, represents engineering in steering committees. Owns technical narrative to non-technical executives. Contributes to practice growth. 

Team Leadership 

Hires, mentors, manages performance, grows engineers to independence. Distributed cross-disciplinary team. 

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

Baseline 

• 8–10 years in application development, with substantial technical leadership experience 

Architecture & Technical Depth 

• Proven architectural ownership spanning frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure — not siloed expertise 

• Hands-on — writes production code, leverages AI agents as development tools, reviews PRs, debugs production, and prototypes personally 

• Integration — multi-protocol API design and patterns (scatter-gather, adapter, batch enrichment, event-driven) applied by problem context 

• Platform operations — DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, database architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and security/compliance 

Leadership & Governance 

• Engineering governance and team scaling — operating models, hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers to independence 

• Principal decision-maker with minimal oversight 

Client & Communication 

• Communicates architecture to non-technical executives with clarity and conviction 

• Direct client/stakeholder engagement in advisory or solution architecture capacity 

Desirable 

• Supply chain, procurement, or trade compliance domain knowledge 

• Enterprise risk, ESG, or sanctions/screening data platforms 

• Consulting or professional services delivery 

• Built or grown a technical practice from zero 

• AWS cloud platform experience; infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent) 

• Databricks or equivalent analytics platform 

• Graph-based data modelling or relationship intelligence 

Why Deloitte?  

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   
  
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  
   
We prioritise flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.  

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.  
 
Next Steps 

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