Enterprise Architect II

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Medical with telemedicine

Dental and Vision

401k with employer match

Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Maternity, Parental, Family Care

Wellness program

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Velera is seeking an Enterprise Architect II to shape and evolve our enterprise architecture for finance and payments systems. You will lead architecture strategy, mentor teams, and oversee major projects with ARB, PTB and PTO artifacts.

Collaborate with senior leaders to align roadmaps with business goals while exploring innovative tech to sustain performance and security. The role emphasizes TOGAF/ArchiMate expertise, governance, risk management, and hands-on artifact creation in a

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in enterprise architecture or systems design for finance/payments.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks, integration techniques and tech stacks.
• Ability to deliver hands-on TOGAF artifacts and build blocks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine enterprise architecture framework around business, application and technology architectures.
• Mentor junior architects and guide technical teams across complex system integrations.
• Oversee major architectural projects and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to translate needs into architecture roadmaps and business cases.
• Identify emerging technologies and create PoCs to enhance performance and competitiveness.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards and governance for security and compliance.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies for reliability and resilience.
• Create detailed architectural documentation and provide regular progress reports.

Skills

TOGAF artifacts

ArchiMate

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

TOGAF certification

Tools

EA Sparx

ServiceNow APM

Job description

Join the People Helping People

Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.

The Opportunity:

As an Enterprise Architect II, you will take a more advanced role in shaping and evolving our enterprise architecture. You will lead efforts to design and implement comprehensive architecture strategies that align with our business goals and support our complex finance and payments systems. This position requires someone who is skilled in managing multiple priorities, possesses strong analytical problem‑solving skills, and hands‑on experience with ArchiMate relationships and dependencies around business, application, and technology architectures and artifacts within the context of TOGAF.

Day in the Life:

• Architecture Strategy: Develop and refine enterprise architecture framework for Velera Systems, around business, application, and technology architectures. Able to create TOGAF Artifacts: Matrixes, Diagrams, Building Blocks, and Principles w/ ArchiMate. Willingness to learn and create business architecture: business capability models, gap analysis’s, risk impact assessments, value stream maps, heat maps, and decision matrixes. Business capability score metrics, total cost of ownership metric, and return on investment metric formula understanding is needed, along with roadmap and business case creation.
• Leadership: Mentor and guide junior architects and technical teams, fostering collaboration and best practices in architecture design and implementation. Providing oversight, consulting, and mentoring on architecture, design, and integration of software across complex system integration with data, security, performance, and scalability in mind is required.
• Project Oversight: Oversee major architectural projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery of solutions. Reviewing and creating solutions using Architecture Review Board (ARB), Permit to Build (PTB), and Permit to Operation (PTO) artifacts, along with capacity forecasting planning and overseeing /own a technology‑based end of support and rationalization program is required.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with senior stakeholders and business leaders to understand their needs and ensure that architecture solutions effectively address business challenges. Working with Velera’s Business Liaison team to establish leadership roadmaps and business cases is required.
• Innovation: Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovative solutions to enhance system performance and competitive advantage. Creating solutions and hands‑on Proof of Concept creation (POCs) is required.
• Standards and Governance: Establish and enforce architectural standards and governance frameworks to ensure consistency, security, and compliance with industry regulations. Reviewing product solution artifacts is required.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify potential risks related to architecture and develop strategies to mitigate them, ensuring system reliability and resilience. Working with Velera’s security risk and compliance team needed to push enterprise level governance is required.
• Documentation and Reporting: Create and maintain detailed architectural documentation, including models, diagrams, and specifications, and provide regular reports on architectural progress and impact.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, related field, or respective industry experience is required. Advanced degrees or certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) are advantageous.
• 5-7 years of experience in enterprise architecture or systems design, with significant exposure to finance and payments systems.
• Technical Skills: Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, integration techniques, and technology stacks relevant to finance and payments. Ability to deliver hands‑on TOGAF artifacts: matrixes, diagrams, analysis, roadmaps, building blocks, and business capacity maps. Hands‑on experience with an architectural modeling tool like EA Sparx or ServiceNow APM is recommended.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with a focus on strategic and tactical thinking.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a range of audiences and influence key decision‑makers. Demonstrate experience working collaboratively and developing relationships with cross‑functional teams, internal customers, other agencies, and third‑party vendors.
• Leadership: Proven experience in leading architectural projects and teams, with a track record of successful implementations. Demonstrate ability to solution projects and drive them through execution with cross team dependencies.

About Velera

At Velera, inclusion isn’t an initiative – it’s how we work. Guided by a people‑helping‑people philosophy, we cultivate a culture where every employee feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work. We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering meaningful connection across our teams. Through a remote‑first, flexible environment, we prioritize psychological safety, wellbeing and belonging so individuals and teams can collaborate to thrive. Together, we’re shaping a new era of secure, innovative solutions for the clients and communities we serve. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Velera.

Pay Equity

$95,800.00 - $124,500.00

Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job‑related factors permitted by law.

Great Work/Life Benefits!

• Competitive wages

• Medical with telemedicine

• Dental and Vision

• Basic and Optional Life Insurance

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Maternity, Parental, Family Care

• Community Volunteer Time Off

• 12 Paid Holidays

• Company Paid Disability Insurance

• 401k (with employer match)

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

• Supplemental Insurance

• Mental Health and Well‑being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness program
• Benefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions

Velera is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.

Velera is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following "EEO is the Law" Poster. Velera will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information.

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