Senior Data Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $138k - $200.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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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

• Define and maintain the enterprise data platform blueprint, including ingestion, storage, processing, serving, governance, and security. • Design, model, and simulate complex business processes using BPMS tools and workflow frameworks. • Establish and govern architectural standards, including data contracts, service-level objectives, access controls, and privacy-by-design principles. • Develop enterprise and domain reference architectures to support scalability, interoperability, and reuse. • Design and modernize systems into cloud-compatible or cloud-native architectures, including migration strategies. • Lead architecture reviews for complex or high-risk initiatives, evaluate trade-offs, and mitigate technical and compliance risks. • Develop process architecture artifacts, including workflow diagrams, functional maps, and cross-functional process models. • Recommend and implement best practices for process orchestration, workflow design, and system integration. • Align data and process architecture with enterprise architecture, security, IAM, networking, and FinOps practices. • Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, serve as a subject matter expert in BPMS tools and process design patterns, collaborate with stakeholders to test and refine workflows, mentor technical professionals, provide strategic architecture recommendations, support CI/CD, DevOps, and automation practices, ensure solutions meet evolving security requirements and industry standards, and perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, business, or equivalent experience. • 9-12 years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, software architecture, or related technical roles. • At least 5 years of experience working within Agile software development environments. • Extensive experience leading data or solution architecture across multiple domains or enterprise platforms. • Strong expertise in modern data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, and streaming platforms. • Experience with business process management systems and workflow modeling tools. • Knowledge of microservices architecture and development, such as Java, Node.js, Scala, and serverless frameworks. • Experience with multiple data storage technologies, including SQL, NoSQL, and graph databases. • Strong experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and cloud-native design. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

🏖️ 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.