Director, Enterprise Architecture & Engineering Acceleration

• Build & Lead the Team: Build, mentor, and lead the Engineering Acceleration team, fostering a culture of excellence and evangelizing best practices across Bentley's enterprise technology teams
• Advise Executive Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor to the C-suite, translating business strategy into actionable technology roadmaps and influencing our strategy on emerging tech like AI
• Define the Engineering North Star: Systematically define and communicate the architectural patterns and operational practices that empower our enterprise technology teams to build with speed and confidence
• Guide Foundational Replatforming: Assume pivotal architectural leadership for the ongoing transformation of our mission-critical Marketing and Sales technology stack, ensuring its successful delivery
• Govern the Enterprise Portfolio: Take ownership of rationalizing our complex portfolio of business systems, maximizing the value of our investments through data-driven architectural decisions

• Proven experience advising C-level executives and building high-performing teams
• Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and modern agile/process frameworks (SAFe, ITIL)
• Deep expertise architecting core business systems, including platforms such as Optimizely, Marketo, Salesforce, SAP, and Workday
• Extensive experience delivering large-scale solutions on cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)
• Strong grasp of enterprise security and identity management solutions (Microsoft Entra ID, Ping)
• Proven track record accelerating engineering velocity and quality through modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience with modern integration patterns (API design: REST, GraphQL
• event-driven architecture) and both relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Cosmos DB, MongoDB) databases

Experience applying AI/ML to business processes is a significant plus, as is familiarity with major platforms (Gemini, Google Cloud AI, Databricks)

• A great Team and culture
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction
• An attractive salary and benefits package
• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups
• A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world