VP Solutions and Data Architecture

ncsecu; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees' Credit Union in Raleigh seeks a senior Enterprise Architect to lead strategic roadmaps, align IT with business initiatives and drive architectural excellence across the portfolio.

You will partner with business lines, manage design delivery, foster innovation, and guide organizational change while coaching the EA team and ensuring security and infrastructure alignment.

Qualifications

• Minimum education: Bachelor's Degree.
• 7+ years direct experience; plus at least 1 year in supervisory/lead/mentorship role.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Develop joint roadmaps aligning IT with enterprise architecture and stakeholder needs.
• Project design delivery: Drive scalable design delivery using proven architectural patterns.
• Innovation: Promote technology innovation and staff training; support modernization.
• Organizational alignment: Build relationships with SECU lines and drive change management.
• Relationship management: Manage vendor relationships and enforce SECU architectural standards.
• Management/Coaching: Provide people management and mentorship to the Enterprise Architecture team.

Skills

Strategy alignment

Stakeholder collaboration

Architecture governance

Vendor management

People leadership

Coaching and mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Job description

If you are motivated and believe in the credit union philosophy of "People Helping People," join our team!

Essential Responsibilities:

• (15 %) Strategy - Partner with key business lines/stakeholders and IT resources to develop joint strategic roadmaps that align with enterprise application architecture and patterns. Keep abreast of IT and business technology solutions available in the marketplace and how they align with the strategic roadmap of the organization. Conduct regular roadmap and capability reviews with partner IT and business units to ensure full coverage across the project portfolio.
• (20 %) Project Design Delivery - Drives application project design delivery in a scalable model aligned with organizational priority to ensure timely delivery of project and business initiatives. Leverage industry proven reference architectural frameworks to streamline reuse of architectural patterns, solution designs, and existing enterprise platforms.
• (10 %) Innovation - Promote and develop a culture which embraces technology innovation. Staying up to date on current trends and emerging technology solutions. Provide training opportunities for staff to ensure teams are prepared for the future. Support the modernization of technologies and solutions.
• (20 %) Organizational Alignment - Establishing ongoing relationships to ensure balance between Information Technology and SECU business line initiatives/roadmap. Maintain a large focus on organization change management and operational readiness, including effective challenges to legacy processes and practices. Build partnerships with infrastructure and security architects to ensure consistency across technology domains.
• (15 %) Relationship Management - Build and maintain strong vendor relationships through current and potential partnership engagements. Hold vendors accountable to defined SECU architectural standards, while maintaining professional working relationships.
• (20 %) Management/Coaching - Provide direct people management, coaching, and mentorship to the Enterprise Architecture team. Ensure architects receive proper training, development opportunities, and effective and timely feedback.

Required Education & Experience (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

• Minimum education: Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 7 direct years of experience, plus an additional 1 year in a supervisory, lead or mentor role

Preferred Education & Experience (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

• Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree or higher
• Preferred 2 years of experience directly managing a team of 5+ application development resources

Job Environment & Physical Requirements:

• Hybrid work environment with at least 2 days a week in office
• Sitting for prolonged periods
• Computer usage for prolonged periods
• Telephone usage for prolonged periods
• After hours escalation support

SECU provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Disclaimer

State Employees' Credit Union reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower level based on business need.