Director - Technology Innovation and Engineering
This role also ensures that emerging technologies are integrated safely and effectively into production systems. It requires balancing the acceleration that AI can provide with the appropriate constraints needed to maintain compliance, reliability, and trust.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Platform Architecture — Design and build the core permit object model, policy-pack engine, workflow state machines, and multi-tenant infrastructure with audit trails, compliance logging, and explainability as first-class system properties.
- AI-Native Engineering — Meaningfully leverage AI development tools (copilots, test generation, documentation, refactoring) to establish AI-augmented workflows and maximize engineering throughput.
- Compliant AI Product Integration — Design AI-assisted compliance validation workflows that are strictly assistive, never authoritative, and always bounded by policy constraints and regulatory requirements.
- Security, Scale & Interoperability — Build SOC-aligned infrastructure with robust logging, monitoring, secure data handling and clean APIs for future integration with SIS, LMS, HR, and EMR systems.
- Cross-Functional & Strategic Alignment — Translate partner needs and operational challenges into a disciplined product roadmap that balances engineering, domain expertise, and regulatory requirements.
- Technical Leadership — Lead from the front with hands-on systems thinking and supporting recruiting and retaining high-performing talent.
Job Skills:
- Demonstrates hands-on technical capability with a strong willingness to build and contribute directly to systems and solutions.
- Applies systems thinking to design, integrate, and optimize complex technical architectures and workflows.
- Possesses a solid understanding of regulatory and compliance-driven environments and how they impact technology design and delivery.
- Effectively leverages AI technologies to enhance productivity, scalability, and innovation.
- Provides technical leadership by leading from the front, setting direction through active involvement and example.
Work Experience:
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 6+ years of experience with leading engineering teams (Hands-on experience in the field while leading)
- Experience with compliance structures
- Experience with leading/working in a start-up environment (Preferred)
- Experience with AI/Machine Learning
- Experience with regulated industries like healthcare, government, finance, or higher education
- System Architecture and Data Model Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in computer science or related field required, advanced degree preferred.
Other:
- Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise. For most roles travel would not be common. Travel may involve plane, car or metro. In accordance with ADA policies, reasonable accommodations regarding travel limitations can be provided. Travel will be more common for roles such as Account Executives (25 - 50%), senior leaders (10 – 20%) or Capella Core Faculty (5 – 10%).
- Ability to work onsite in Corporate or Campus location (in a typical office environment) may be required based on role. If so, this would include being mobile within the office, including movement from floor-to-floor using elevators or stairs.
- If offsite or hybrid role, must have access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
- This role may require lifting, however reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with our ADA policies.
- Must be able to meet critical thinking and problem solving aspects aligned to job duties, as well as effectively communicating with co-workers.
- Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant. Accommodations related to schedule may be considered.
- Able to access information using a computer.
- Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.
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SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.
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SEI is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture where individuals can grow their careers and contribute fully. We strive to attract talent with broad experiences, skills and perspectives. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.
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