Director of Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

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.