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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

• 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 • 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 • Lead architectural governance processes, including architecture reviews, decision records, and technology lifecycle guidance • Ensure architectural components and standards are fully documented with value propositions, states, operational considerations, KPIs, and decision rationale • Enable delivery teams through reusable patterns, templates, guardrails, and architectural guidance • 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 • Drive modernization efforts to reduce technical debt, simplify integrations, and improve resilience and scalability • Guide API-first and event-driven integration approaches • Promote security, privacy, and resiliency by design • Support cloud maturity through cost-aware architecture decisions and platform enablement • Evaluate emerging technologies and convert successful proofs into scalable, governed capabilities • Plan and manage team capacity, prioritization, and investment alignment

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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 and event-driven patterns • Knowledge of security and resiliency cross-cutting concerns • Experience establishing and operating architectural governance, including tradeoff analysis and decision facilitation • Ability to influence 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 for executive and senior stakeholder audiences • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience • Experience leading architecture across multiple domains in a federated or matrixed operating model • Background in wealth management, retirement, or similarly regulated industries • Hands-on involvement in modernization or large-scale transformation initiatives • Familiarity with cloud architecture, cost optimization, or platform enablement models • Experience supporting AI or advanced analytics adoption with architectural guardrails • Relevant architecture, cloud, or security certifications are a plus • Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or a related field

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Fluid career paths • Internal mobility opportunities • Purpose, well-being, and work-life balance support • Welcoming and inclusive environment • Volunteering opportunities • Reliable high-speed internet and home workspace support for remote positions • Necessary computer equipment provided