Senior Enterprise Architect

UFCU Financial Services, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

UFCU Financial Services, LLC is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Architect in Austin, Texas to shape the enterprise technology architecture strategy and lead high-impact initiatives. This key role ensures solutions are secure, resilient, and scalable while promoting best practices within the organization.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in enterprise architecture and be prepared to engage collaborately with various teams, driving innovation and architectural excellence.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in architecture or engineering roles with increasing responsibility.
• Experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Exposure across multiple domains such as integration, data, CRM/contact center, and cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise target architecture across applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure.
• Lead architecture for strategic initiatives including CRM, integration, onboarding/origination, and data platforms.
• Ensure architectures are audit-ready and regulator-reassuring.

Skills

Enterprise architecture practices

API and event-driven integration patterns

Security architecture fundamentals

Resiliency and operational design principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Job description

The Sr. Enterprise Architect (EA) is accountable for UFCU’s enterprise technology architecture strategy, target‑state design, and architecture governance, while also serving as a hands‑on solution architect for high‑impact initiatives. This role ensures UFCU platforms and solutions are secure‑by‑design, resilient, scalable, interoperable, and audit/regulator‑ready, enabling consistent member and employee experiences. This role drives adoption of standards and architectural patterns through practical enablement, developer community engagement, and strong partnership with business and technology leaders.

The Sr. Enterprise Architect role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Essential Functions

• Define and evolve the enterprise target architecture across applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure
• Develop multi‑year roadmaps aligned to business priorities
• Lead architecture for strategic initiatives including CRM, integration, onboarding/origination, and data platforms
• Produce actionable artifacts such as architecture diagrams, data flows, interface designs, and ADRs
• Define non‑functional requirements and operational readiness expectations

Architecture Governance (ARB, Standards, Exceptions)

• Operate the Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Define and maintain architecture standards and reference patterns
• Manage exception processes with clear timelines and remediation plans
• Ensure decisions are documented and traceable
• Define standards for APIs, eventing, and messaging patterns
• Drive adoption of reusable integration patterns
• Reduce point‑to‑point integrations and increase platform reuse
• Promote domain‑based data architecture and governance
• Ensure alignment on data quality, lineage, classification, and access
• Support scalable data consumption patterns for analytics and reporting

Security, Risk & Compliance Alignment

• Partner with Information Security and GRC to ensure secure‑by‑design solutions
• Embed controls for identity, encryption, monitoring, and resilience
• Ensure architectures are audit‑ready and regulator‑reassuring
• Evaluate vendor solutions for architectural fit, integration feasibility, and risk
• Define integration and architecture expectations for third‑party platforms
• Assess total cost of ownership and long‑term viability

Other

• Adheres to all company policies, procedures, and business ethics codes.
• Completes required regulatory training as assigned.
• Maintains strict adherence to and compliance with all laws, rules, regulations, and internal controls specific to the role, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act, Anti‑Money Laundering, USA Patriot Act, OFAC and Fair Lending regulations.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of enterprise architecture practices across application, integration, and data domains
• API and event‑driven integration patterns
• Security architecture fundamentals
• Resiliency and operational design principles

Skills

• Clear communication of architecture and trade‑offs
• Demonstrated cross‑functional collaboration and influence
• Experience with vendor evaluation and architecture assessment
• Development of practical, reusable patterns

Abilities

• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands‑on levels
• Ability to identify and mitigate architectural risks early
• Ability to balance standardization with delivery speed

Core Competencies

• Demonstrating Member Obsession
• Puts themselves in the Member’s shoes
• Looks for friction points
• Makes it personalized and easy
• Demonstrating Performance Excellence
• Takes responsibility
• Conducts continuous improvement
• Demonstrating Innovation
• Challenges current thinking
• Approaches change with a positive mindset

Experience

• 5‑7+ years of experience in architecture or engineering roles with increasing responsibility
• Experience in complex enterprise environments
• Exposure across multiple domains such as integration, data, CRM/contact center, and cloud
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field or relevant experience in lieu of degree
• Must be bondable

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in regulated industries
• Experience working with credit unions, community banks, regional financial institutions or regulated environments

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee, with or without accommodation, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Frequent

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Employee will make extensive use of the telephone and virtual communications requiring the ability to explain complex information effectively and accurately.

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• This position requires frequently working onsite at UFCU Plaza in Austin, Texas.
• This position may involve periodic stressful conditions.
• May occasionally require an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours.
• May occasionally move from one work location/branch to another.
• Public contact position, requiring appropriate professional appearance.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation of up to two hours at a time.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

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