AVP, Architecture

GM Financial

AVP Architecture role at GM Financial focusing on technology solutions and business agility. Responsible for defining effective technology architectures and leading collaboration among teams.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeIrving • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide leadership oversight to ensure business vision is translated into scalable and sustainable technical solutions, balancing risk, investment needs, and fitness for purpose.
Lead and enable collaboration between architecture, engineering, and product management teams to define, communicate, and maintain technical architecture roadmaps.
Establish and govern the adoption of enterprise technology standards, and oversee the maintenance, and evolution of those standards across the organization.
Guide teams in the analysis of complex technical and business challenges, ensuring sound judgment and financial analysis inform strategic decisions.
Serve as accountable leader for critical technical domains such as systems architecture, data integration, and analytics.
Ensure effective leadership, ownership, and accountability across the organization for critical technical domains such as systems architecture, data integration, and analytics.
Encourage information sharing, actively seek input, and value diverse perspectives to improve outcomes and decision‑making.
Use data and metrics to drive continuous improvement in processes, platforms, and products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Understanding of and investment in emotional intelligence components: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill.
Working knowledge of and architectural decision-making experience with public cloud technologies, particularly PaaS offerings.
Experience in software development and test automation relevant to the product team (e.g. mobile, web, or database development) with a drive for continual learning.
Experience with automation toolsets and a mandate to automate everywhere for repeatability, scale, and efficiency.
Experience working in and coaching Agile Scrum teams.
Use and experience implementing modernization tools and AI to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and drive operational efficiency.
Ability to scope and lead creation of “minimum viable product”; prioritizing critical tasks, and utilizing test and learn approaches to iteratively deliver technical and business solutions.
Provide leadership through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork.
Identify opportunities, facilitate ideation, and champion initiatives that deliver measurable business value
Present team strategies and accomplishments to senior executives and peers.
Establish strong working relationships and build trust with peers.
Listen actively and communicate effectively with others both orally and in writing
Apply creative thinking and negotiations skills to develop solutions that are acceptable to different needs
**Experience:**
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
7-10 years of experience in information systems (experience should include extensive project related work, preferably application development projects and data warehouse projects) required
5-7 years of system/solution/enterprise architecture experience required
5-7 years management and/or leadership experience required
2-4 years public cloud experience preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching
Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
Tuition assistance
Training
GM employee auto discount
Community service pay
Nine company holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmenttest automationdata integrationanalyticsAgile Scrumpublic cloud technologiesPaaSmodernization toolsAIminimum viable product

Soft Skills

emotional intelligenceself-awarenessself-regulationmotivationempathysocial skillleadershipcollaborationcommunicationcreative thinking