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VP of Data Architecture
Location
United States
Posted
67 days ago
Salary
$166.9K - $242.1K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
VP of Data Architecture
Empower
• Lead the enterprise data architecture function, including hiring, developing, and retaining architecture talent, and setting expectations for how architecture work is produced, reviewed, and adopted across delivery organizations. • Own Empower’s enterprise data architecture strategy and direction and hold the organization accountable for maintaining the target state, roadmaps, and guidance needed to execute modernization priorities. • Direct the architecture team’s definition of enterprise patterns for data movement, processing, storage, and consumption across operational, analytical, and advanced analytics/AI use cases. • Communicate enterprise data architecture direction to executives and delivery leaders, making tradeoffs explicit (risk, cost, stability, speed) and driving decisions that improve outcomes. • Sponsor and oversee modernization of legacy data capabilities, ensuring the team drives migration sequencing, platform evolution guidance, and decommissioning plans that reduce complexity and technical debt. • Partner with platform leadership to advance AWS-based cloud maturity and scalable platform patterns, ensuring the architecture team provides guardrails that enable automation, repeatability, and delivery speed. • Own the enterprise approach to integration evolution and reusable integration capabilities, ensuring the team reduces point-to-point complexity and improves enterprise data access through consistent patterns. • Ensure the team defines and drives API-first and event-driven patterns (including streaming where appropriate), with clear expectations for latency, scalability, resiliency, and consumer experience. • Promotes the creation of architecture that conforms to enterprise standards. • Oversee the definition of enterprise consumption standards across BI/reporting, APIs/data services, and analytics workbenches, including performance practices, traceability, and compliance/audit readiness. • Sponsor architectural direction for ETL/ELT performance and cost optimization, ensuring the team establishes practices for tuning, workload design, capacity planning, and pipeline reliability instrumentation. • Establish an architecture engagement model and operating rhythm that provides timely guidance and reduces late-cycle rework.
Job Requirements
- Minimum ten (10) years relevant IT architecture experience, including at least four (4) years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.
- High-level communications, consulting, and client relations experience with all levels of management.
- Strong executive acumen required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to frame tradeoffs (risk, cost, stability, delivery speed) and drive decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in the retirement, wealth management, recordkeeping, or closely related financial services domain.
- Experience with AWS and cloud-first architectural patterns, including resiliency, automation, scalability, and cost visibility.
- Strong capability in reliability and operability practices, including observability, production readiness, failure modes, and availability patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to lead senior technical professionals and drive outcomes through influence and clear architectural decision-making.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data consumption patterns across BI/reporting, API/data services, and advanced analytics platforms.
- Strong security-by-design fundamentals for enterprise data access and integration, including encryption, access controls, auditing, and protection of sensitive data.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
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