Director of Application Architecture

Director, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

About Foxit
Foxit is a leading software company delivering innovative PDF and document solutions to businesses around the world. As we continue scaling our global SaaS business, we are investing in the systems, architecture, and governance required to support growth, improve customer experience, and drive operational efficiency.

Role Overview
Foxit is seeking a Director, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy to serve as the strategic integrator of our enterprise technology landscape.
This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for aligning systems, data, and infrastructure with business priorities to enable scale, reduce friction, and strengthen security, governance, and long-term efficiency.
This is not a role centered on building a large architecture team. Instead, it is designed for a high-impact leader who can drive outcomes through influence, architectural discipline, and cross-functional partnership.
In this role, you will act as the “air traffic controller” of Foxit’s systems ecosystem — ensuring our core commercial and operational platforms, including CPQ, CRM, NetSuite, licensing systems, eCommerce, identity, and enterprise data environments, operate as a connected and scalable foundation for Foxit’s SaaS growth strategy.

Key Responsibilities
1) Enterprise Architecture & Technology Strategy
Develop and maintain a 3–5 year enterprise architecture roadmap aligned to Foxit’s commercial strategy, subscription growth, and Rule of 40 objectives
Translate business priorities across Sales, Product, Finance, and Operations into an integrated systems strategy
Identify opportunities to modernize, simplify, and retire redundant or low-value systems
Ensure architecture decisions support scale, speed, cost discipline, and long-term business agility

2) Business Systems Integration
Establish architecture standards across CRM, CPQ, NetSuite, licensing management systems, marketplace, eCommerce, and identity platforms
Drive simplification of the technology stack through a pragmatic approach: buy where non-differentiated, build where strategic
Reduce rework, duplication, and operational friction through stronger integration and platform design discipline
Help shape a more connected enterprise ecosystem that supports revenue growth and operational performance

3) Governance & Architecture Review
Lead an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to evaluate major system changes, integration decisions, and vendor selections
Define and enforce enterprise standards for APIs, data models, interoperability, identity, and security alignment
Build governance mechanisms that improve decision quality without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
Partner with Finance to improve technology cost transparency, lifecycle planning, and investment prioritization

4) Data, Identity & Security Alignment
Partner closely with Security leadership to ensure systems are secure by design
Strengthen identity and access strategy through best practices such as SSO, MFA, SCIM, and role-based access controls
Improve data integrity, ownership clarity, and analytics enablement across key systems
Support scalable, reliable data flows across critical business platforms

5) Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, Operations, and Technology
Improve clarity of requirements and reduce friction between business stakeholders and GBITS
Bring greater transparency to system roadmaps, priorities, trade-offs, and decision-making
Help shift the organization from reactive support to proactive, architecture-led partnership

What Success Looks Like
In the first 12–18 months, success in this role will include:
A clear and approved enterprise systems roadmap that is broadly socialized
Reduced duplication across internal tools and unnecessary custom development
Measurable reduction in integration-related delays and cross-functional rework
Improved stakeholder satisfaction and confidence in GBITS engagement
Standardized identity and security architecture across critical systems
Commercial platform modernization governed under a unified architectural framework

What We’re Looking For
12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, business systems leadership, or related technology roles
Strong experience in SaaS or subscription-based business environments
Hands-on exposure to platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, CPQ, licensing systems, and digital commerce ecosystems
Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority
Strong business acumen, including understanding of revenue models, subscription economics, scalability, and compliance risk
Experience building governance and architecture standards that improve clarity and speed rather than slow organizations down
Executive-level communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with C-level stakeholders

Why This Role Matters
As Foxit continues to scale globally, fragmented systems and reactive technology decisions create unnecessary cost, risk, and customer friction. This role is critical to ensuring that technology becomes a disciplined enabler of growth — not a bottleneck.

In this role, you will help Foxit:
Reduce long-term operating costs by eliminating redundancy and complexity
Improve customer and partner experience through stronger platform alignment
Strengthen compliance, governance, and security across the enterprise
Enable teams to move faster by reducing rework and improving system clarity
This is a strategic leadership role built for impact — not empire-building. It is ideal for a systems-minded leader who thrives on creating alignment, discipline, and scalable business value.