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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

• Partner with Sr. Architects, peers, and more junior resources define and execute on the business aligned IT strategy and vision. • Develop, document, and provide input into Empower technology roadmap, integration roadmap, architectural standards, and reusable solution patterns. • Define integration architecture patterns for APIs, events, messaging, batch/file exchange, streaming, ETL/ELT, SaaS integration, and partner integration. • Create and maintain reference architectures. • Design and modernize complex systems into cloud compatible or cloud native applications where applicable, including strategies for migrating legacy applications and integrations to cloud systems. • Lead solution design for secure, scalable, reusable integration services that reduce point-to-point complexity and support enterprise reuse. • Participate in the evaluation of new applications, technical options, challenge the status quo, create solid business cases, and influence direction while establishing partnerships with key constituencies. • Implement best practices, standards & guidance, then subsequently provide coaching of technology team members. • Make leadership recommendations regarding strategic architectural considerations related to process design and process orchestration. • Provide strong leadership and direction in development/engineering practices. • Collaborate with other business and technology teams on architecture and design issues. • Respond to evolving and changing security conditions. • Implement and recommend security guidelines. • Provide thought-leadership, advocacy, articulation, assurance, and maintenance of the enterprise architecture discipline. • Provide solution, guidance, and implementation assistance within full stack development teams. • Recommend long term scalable and performant architecture changes keeping cost in control.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or have equivalent experience • 10+ years' experience in architecting Enterprise Solutions, Data Integration, and emerging technologies. • Strong experience with enterprise integration patterns, API-led integration, event-driven architecture, messaging, file/batch exchange, streaming, and data integration. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical designs, risks, options and trade-offs to executives, engineers, business stakeholders, clients, and vendors. • Self-motivated individual that thrives in a team environment. • Demonstrated continuous learning and ability to evaluate new technologies pragmatically. • Strong development skills -- knowledge of writing complex code, and tuning. • Ability to create clear solution architecture documents, integration diagrams, interface specifications, API and event contracts, and architecture decision records. • Basic understanding of data science principles and data needs. • Financial Services industry experience. • Strong development awareness, including CI/CD, automated testing, containerized application, and secure agile delivery practices. • Java, Pro-C, Python, JavaScript/Typescript programming experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• flexible work environment • fluid career paths • purpose and well-being recognition • work-life balance • volunteering opportunities