[Hiring] Senior Director, Solution Architecture @Sherwin-Williams

Role Description

The Senior Director, Solution Architecture leads the solution and domain architects who design the architecture for programs and projects across Sherwin-Williams' business portfolios and technology platforms. The role owns the people, the practice and the capacity: who is hired and developed, how architects are assigned and prioritized, and the quality and consistency of the designs they deliver. Its first-year priority is bringing architects from several ETG organizations into one operating model without disrupting work in flight.

• Lead the solution and domain architecture organization: hiring, development, performance and succession for the architects and the leaders of its groups.
• Own architect assignment and capacity: allocate architects to programs and projects by priority, balance load across groups and surface capacity gaps before they stall delivery.
• Own the quality and consistency of solution architecture: deliverable standards, peer review and conformance to portfolio target states and practice standards.
• Bring architects arriving from other ETG organizations into one operating model: common roles, expectations, engagement model and career paths, with minimal disruption to in-flight work.
• Partner with the Principal Portfolio and Practice Architects so that target states and standards reach every design, and resolve conflicts between delivery pressure and architecture direction.
• Own the engagement model with portfolio and platform delivery leaders: how work reaches architects, how it is prioritized and what delivery can expect from them.
• Raise the hands-on technical bar: architects prototype, use AI code assist and agentic tooling in their work and stay current in their platforms.
• Report architect capacity, utilization and delivery outcomes to the Enterprise Architecture leadership team, and represent solution architecture in architecture governance.

This is a remote position. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

• Must be eighteen years or older.
• This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1, etc.).
• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years in technology.
• 5+ years of hands-on software or systems engineering.
• 8+ years in architecture roles.
• 5+ years as a people manager of architects or senior engineers, including leading leaders, with ownership of hiring, performance and development.
• Experience running a solution architecture function at enterprise scale across multiple business areas: assignment, capacity, quality and the engagement model with delivery.
• Experience integrating or consolidating technical teams from separate organizations without disrupting delivery.
• Working knowledge of the enterprise application and platform landscape across business and technology portfolios, or the ability to build it quickly.
• Track record of holding architecture quality under delivery pressure and of partnering with delivery leaders as a peer.
• Travel: 20%.

Benefits

• Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being.
• Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution.
• Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities.

At Sherwin-Williams, part of our mission is to help our employees and their families live healthier, save smarter and feel better. This starts with a wide range of world-class benefits designed for you. From retirement to health care, from total well-being to your daily commute—it matters to us.

A general description of benefits offered can be found at http://www.myswbenefits.com/ . Click on “Candidates” to view benefit offerings that you may be eligible for if you are hired as a Sherwin-Williams employee.