Director, AFB Technologies
AccuWeather · State College, PA
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AccuWeather is seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Director, AFB Technologies to provide technical leadership for the platforms, applications, services, and data that power AccuWeather for Business (AFB).
This role will be responsible for the technology strategy and evolution of the AFB web, mobile app, API, and data capabilities. The Director will develop a strong understanding of existing systems and business needs, work across Technology, Product, Security, Operations, and other teams to establish a modernization strategy, and lead its execution while continuing to support the needs of AccuWeather's enterprise customers.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth, people leadership, strategic thinking, and a pragmatic approach to modernization. This leader will help simplify and modernize AFB technologies,
strengthen security and operational practices, drive progress toward SOC 2 compliance, expand the use of AI across engineering and product capabilities, and identify opportunities for AFB technology investments to be reused across other AccuWeather platforms.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide technical and organizational leadership for the AFB web portal, mobile applications, APIs, and AFB-specific data capabilities
- Develop a deep understanding of existing AFB systems, integrations, dependencies, data flows, technical debt, and operational processes to establish a clear baseline for future investment
- Define and execute a technology strategy and modernization roadmap that balances new capabilities, customer commitments, reliability, security, technical debt, and sustainability
- Partner closely with Product, Technology, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate AFB business and customer needs into scalable technical solutions and priorities
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve software development, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and overall productivity
- Identify and lead opportunities to incorporate AI into AFB platforms and workflows where it can create meaningful customer value, improve operational efficiency, simplify complex data, or enable new enterprise capabilities while maintaining appropriate security and governance
- Modernize applications, services, APIs, and data capabilities using approaches that improve maintainability, scalability, observability, developer productivity, and speed of delivery
- Identify opportunities to create shared services, APIs, data capabilities, components, and platforms that can be reused across AFB and other AccuWeather products
- Drive AFB technology toward SOC 2 readiness and compliance, partnering with Security and other teams to establish appropriate controls and practices around access, change management, delivery, monitoring, incident response, data protection, SLA’s, and processes
- Ensure AFB platforms are reliable, secure, performant, scalable, monitorable, and supportable for AccuWeather's
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ience of over 250 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, Samsung, LG, and Amazon Freevee.
AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.
Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chair, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. Dr. Myers was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame, Class of 2026, in recognition of his role in revolutionizing weather forecasting through teaching, research, and building AccuWeather into one of the world’s major sources of weather data, forecasts, and warnings.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.