Director of Technology & Chief Architect

The role High 5 Games is hiring a Director of Technology who is first and foremost a hands-on chief architect. You will shape the technical vision and grow into owning the architecture of a cloud platform built on hundreds of Java microservices that process millions of real-time transactions every day. You will join a mature, high-volume platform that is already running in production. You'll spend your first 90 days learning it deeply, embedded with the teams that built it, and take ownership of its architecture domain by domain: starting with the data and transaction layer, then service architecture and the cloud platform. By the end of your first year, you'll own the platform's architecture end to end and set its direction for the years ahead. This is not a slide-deck architect role. You will design systems, review code and schemas, set engineering standards, and lead the engineering and technology teams that build and run the platform. You must be comfortable explaining technology strategy and trade-offs to executives, business partners, and regulators. The platform you will own Hundreds of microservices, primarily Java, running in the cloud. Millions of real-time transactions per day, where latency, consistency, and auditability matter on every one. Regulated, money-adjacent workloads for social and sweepstakes casino gaming: wallets, purchases, game outcomes, and promotions. 24x7 availability for players across web and mobile. Responsibilities Architecture and system des