Empower

Senior Director of Data Architecture

Empower

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $151,800 - $220,050 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing architecture team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
  • Establish role clarity, expectations, and growth paths for architects, ensuring consistent practice maturity and strong engagement
  • Define and evolve current-state and target-state architectures aligned to business strategy, regulatory expectations, and long-term sustainability
  • Establish and maintain enterprise and domain reference architectures, standards, and guiding principles that enable consistent solution design
  • Lead architectural governance processes, including architecture reviews, decision records, and lifecycle guidance for technology adoption and retirement
  • Ensure architectural components and standards are fully documented, including value proposition, current and target state, operational considerations, KPIs, and decision rationale
  • Enable delivery teams through reusable patterns, templates, guardrails, and clear architectural guidance that reduces friction and rework
  • Provide architectural leadership across data architecture, data management, data security, data delivery, advanced analytics enablement, and business architecture alignment
  • Partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, risk, and business stakeholders to align architecture decisions with delivery and operational outcomes
  • Drive modernization efforts that reduce technical debt, simplify integrations, and improve system resilience and scalability
  • Guide API-first and event-driven integration approaches that improve reuse, consistency, and observability
  • Promote security, privacy, and resiliency by design through architectural standards and review practices
  • Support cloud maturity through cost-aware, operationally sound architecture decisions and platform enablement
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and innovation opportunities, converting successful proofs into scalable, governed capabilities
  • Plan and manage team capacity, prioritization, and investment alignment to meet strategic objectives and delivery commitments

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software development
  • 4+ years successfully managing a team(s), including developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.
  • Demonstrated experience leading people, including coaching, developing talent, setting expectations, and driving accountability for outcomes
  • Significant experience in enterprise, solution, or domain architecture within complex environments, ideally regulated financial services
  • Demonstrated ability to define target-state architecture and drive adoption through standards, governance, and roadmaps
  • Strong architectural breadth with depth in data and integration concepts, including APIs, event-driven patterns, and cross-cutting concerns such as security and resiliency
  • Experience establishing and operating architectural governance, including tradeoff analysis and decision facilitation
  • Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business teams
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes, risks, and value statements
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills suitable for executive and senior stakeholder audiences
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience
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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
software developmententerprise architecturesolution architecturedomain architecturedata architecturedata managementAPI integrationevent-driven architecturearchitectural governancecloud architecture
Soft skills
team managementcoachingtalent developmentsetting expectationsdriving accountabilityinfluencing stakeholderscommunicationstrategic planningproblem-solvingcollaboration