Vice President, Chief Architect

PagerDuty

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Lead technology strategy that influences across multiple products, teams, and geographies
Drive and promote reliability engineering strategy and best practices
Lead design reviews to ensure scalable and reliable systems
Stay close to technology with a hands-on approach
Incorporate corporate strategy, customer needs, industry trends, and technology into future-focused plans
Actively participate across engineering, product and corporate strategy teams to achieve operational excellence
Act as coach and mentor to Staff+ engineers
Promote a culture of creativity, learning, and collective success and develop a technology and architecture roadmap that delivers on business outcomes
Bring a pragmatic approach to technology-driven decisions and investments
Participate quickly in teams at both architecture design and implementation
Report to the CTO and work across Engineering and Product organizations
Participate in customer-facing and industry engagements that inform technology vision and strategy

Demonstrated experience in a similar role and capacity with distributed systems operating in cloud environments
Strong leadership skills leading through influence across functional and organization boundaries
Experience in driving architecture throughout a product portfolio across a diverse technology organization
Experience in establishing, driving, and standardizing reliability engineering practices
Excellent communications skills to engage with both business and technical audiences
Proven track record of innovative, creative, and results driven outcomes
Extensive experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems and developing enterprise level technology roadmaps
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience working with team members across various geographies
Experience in evaluating talent and products in mergers and acquisitions