VP Solutions and Data Architecture

State Employees' Credit Union; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees' Credit Union, based in North Carolina, is seeking a senior enterprise architect to lead architecture strategy, standards and data governance. You will craft the strategic technology roadmap and drive transformation across operations, IT and vendor partners.

Responsibilities include developing joint roadmaps with business lines, delivering scalable design patterns, promoting innovation, and aligning IT with SECU initiatives while coaching the architecture team and managing vendor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum 7 direct years of experience, plus 1 year in a supervisory/lead role.
• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree or higher; 2+ years managing a team of 5+ developers.

Responsibilities

• Strategy – Develop joint strategic roadmaps aligning with enterprise architecture.
• Project Design Delivery – Drive scalable design delivery aligned with organizational priority.
• Innovation – Promote a culture embracing technology innovation and modernization.
• Organizational Alignment – Align IT with SECU business initiatives and manage organizational change.
• Relationship Management – Build strong vendor relationships and enforce SECU architectural standards.
• Management/ Coaching – Provide direct people management, coaching, and mentorship to the EA team.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Relationship management

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! This is a senior management leadership position responsible for enterprise application architecture, standards, patterns and data for the Credit Union. Scope includes strategic technology roadmap development, solutions architecture, data architecture, and business relationship management. Establish a vision that aligns with modern technology trends, mapping the vision to our current state, and drive transformation throughout the organization. Work closely with numerous operational business lines, IT departments, third party vendors, and transaction gateway partners to deliver projects and architectural solutions that meet the needs of the Credit Union.

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.

State Employees' Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperative with a "Do the Right Thing" mission and a goal of helping people in our community. SECU values the differences in our staff and in our North Carolina communities. We believe that embracing the uniqueness of individuals makes our cooperative stronger, more innovative and better able to serve SECU members.