Director, AFB Technologies

AccuWeather is seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Director AFB Technologies to provide technical leadership for the platforms applications services and data that power AccuWeather for Business (AFB).

This role will be responsible for the technology strategy and evolution of the AFB web mobile app API and data capabilities. The Director will develop a strong understanding of existing systems and business needs work across Technology Product Security Operations and other teams to establish a modernization strategy and lead its execution while continuing to support the needs of AccuWeathers enterprise customers.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth people leadership strategic thinking and a pragmatic approach to modernization. This leader will help simplify and modernize AFB technologies

strengthen security and operational practices drive progress toward SOC 2 compliance expand the use of AI across engineering and product capabilities and identify opportunities for AFB technology investments to be reused across other AccuWeather platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical and organizational leadership for the AFB web portal mobile applications APIs and AFB-specific data capabilities
• Develop a deep understanding of existing AFB systems integrations dependencies data flows technical debt and operational processes to establish a clear baseline for future investment
• Define and execute a technology strategy and modernization roadmap that balances new capabilities customer commitments reliability security technical debt and sustainability
• Partner closely with Product Technology Security Operations and business stakeholders to translate AFB business and customer needs into scalable technical solutions and priorities
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve software development testing troubleshooting documentation and overall productivity
• Identify and lead opportunities to incorporate AI into AFB platforms and workflows where it can create meaningful customer value improve operational efficiency simplify complex data or enable new enterprise capabilities while maintaining appropriate security and governance
• Modernize applications services APIs and data capabilities using approaches that improve maintainability scalability observability developer productivity and speed of delivery
• Identify opportunities to create shared services APIs data capabilities components and platforms that can be reused across AFB and other AccuWeather products
• Drive AFB technology toward SOC 2 readiness and compliance partnering with Security and other teams to establish appropriate controls and practices around access change management delivery monitoring incident response data protection SLAs and processes
• Ensure AFB platforms are reliable secure performant scalable monitorable and supportable for AccuWeathers enterprise customers
• Establish and continuously improve software engineering testing API data and delivery practices across the AFB technology ecosystem
• Lead mentor and develop engineers and technical contributors establishing clear ownership expectations priorities and opportunities for professional growth
• Define and monitor meaningful measures of platform health engineering effectiveness reliability security modernization progress and delivery performance

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related discipline or equivalent experience
• 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering technology leadership enterprise applications digital platforms or related disciplines
• 5 years of experience leading and developing software engineering or technology teams
• Demonstrated experience defining technology strategy and leading the modernization of existing applications services APIs or data platforms
• Strong technical understanding of modern web applications mobile applications APIs cloud technologies distributed systems data platforms and software delivery practices
• Experience supporting business-critical or enterprise-facing technology platforms with demanding reliability security performance and customer requirements
• Experience with security compliance and technology control frameworks; direct experience supporting SOC 2 readiness or compliance is strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of API design integration patterns data architecture and approaches that enable capabilities to be shared and reused across products
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools and a strong understanding of the opportunities risks and practical applications of AI within software engineering and digital products
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate legacy systems technical debt and competing priorities and develop pragmatic incremental modernization strategies
• Ability to operate effectively across organizational boundaries influence technical direction and lead complex initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders
• Strong critical-thinking problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts risks tradeoffs and recommendations to technical business and executive audiences
• Self-driven adaptable collaborative and comfortable taking ownership of complex technology challenges

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the worldhas saved over 12000 lives prevented injury to over 100000 people and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeathers proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage in 700 newspapers are heard on over 400 radio stations and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV Charter Communications - Spectrum Verizon Philo Frndly TV Comcasts Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream Roku Xumo Rockbot LG and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers Founder and Executive Chairman established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the father of modern commercial meteorology. Myers a leading creative thinker and visionary has been called the most accurate man in weather by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneurs Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race creed color national origin sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression) sexual orientation age ancestry physical or mental disability marital status political affiliation religion citizenship status genetic information veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal state or local law.

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