Senior Architect – Distributed Data Strategy

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🕒 July 1

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• design and implement API-first and event-driven architectures that enable scalable, real-time system communication • architect integration patterns including REST/ gRPC APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven workflows across distributed systems • define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and interface standards to ensure consistent, reliable data exchange across domains • design for resilience in distributed systems, including preventing duplicate processing, managing retries and replays, and ensuring fault tolerance • lead modernization of legacy integrations by reducing point-to-point dependencies and enabling loosely coupled architectures • establish best practices for API lifecycle management including versioning, documentation, security, and governance • provide architectural leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration to ensure consistent adoption of integration patterns

🎯 Requirements

• experience designing and implementing scalable integration solutions across distributed systems • strong understanding of API-based system design and modern integration approaches (e.g., synchronous and asynchronous patterns) • familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging concepts in real-world applications • experience defining and managing interfaces or data exchange patterns across systems • understanding of reliability considerations in distributed systems (e.g., handling failures, retries, or duplicate processing) • experience working across a mix of legacy and modern systems in complex enterprise environments • proficiency in backend or service-based development using languages such as Java, Python, or similar

🏖️ Benefits

• flexible work environment • fluid career paths • celebrate internal mobility • importance of purpose • well-being • work-life balance