Principal Technical Architect, Investments

USAA Life Insurance Company; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company seeks a Principal Technical Architect to steer investments technology strategy within the Architecture and Technology Strategy organization. You will lead core architectural decisions, partnering with senior business and IT leaders to drive innovation and ensure regulatory compliance across on-prem and cloud environments.

Role requires designing scalable systems using microservices, containerization and secure APIs, while mentoring engineers and coordinating

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture for complex investment/financial services applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven designs).
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to finalize strategy and requirements.
• Coordinates with domain architects to create architecture decisions and roadmaps.
• Mentors engineers and architects to build resilient systems.
• Reviews domain applications to identify risks and opportunities.
• Advises executives on proposed courses of action and prepares CTO briefings.
• Documents architecture standards and policies across domains for compliance.
• Participates in planning and troubleshooting incidents in the technology ecosystem.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to ensure team redundancy and backfill capacity.
• Leads technical design of systems, services and dataflows across portfolios.
• Executes architecture practices to deliver timely, high-quality artifacts.
• Maintains external relationships with industry organizations and vendors.

Skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Architecture leadership

Mentorship

Risk assessment

Executive communication

Job description

USAA Life Insurance Company seeks a Principal Technical Architect to steer investments technology strategy within the Architecture and Technology Strategy organization. You will lead core architectural decisions, partnering with senior business and IT leaders to drive innovation and ensure regulatory compliance across on-prem and cloud environments.

Role requires designing scalable systems using microservices, containerization and secure APIs, while mentoring engineers and coordinating