Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

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The Enterprise Architect will play a strategic leadership role within Empower’s Business Architecture organization, partnering with business and technology leaders to align technology strategy, enterprise roadmaps, and solution direction with business priorities. This role will translate business objectives into actionable architecture strategies, identify capability gaps and modernization opportunities, and guide technology decisions that improve client experience, operational efficiency, resiliency, scalability, and long-term business value.

The initial focus of this role may include Empower’s Workplace Solutions business, which supports employer-sponsored retirement plans, plan sponsors, participants, and related products and services. The successful candidate may also support other enterprise domains or cross-enterprise capabilities based on business need and individual experience.

The ideal candidate brings strong enterprise architecture experience, business acumen, and the ability to engage credibly with both senior business executives and technology leaders. This individual must be comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing across organizational boundaries, and connecting strategic business outcomes to practical technology roadmaps.

What you will do:

• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand business strategy, growth priorities, operational challenges, market trends, and technology needs.
• Translate business strategy into enterprise architecture direction, capability roadmaps, target-state architecture, and actionable transformation plans.
• Develop and maintain architecture views across business capabilities, applications, platforms, data flows, integrations, value streams, and key dependencies.
• Provide architecture leadership across one or more business domains or enterprise-wide capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce duplication, modernize legacy capabilities, improve resiliency, optimize cost, and better align platforms to business capabilities.
• Influence technology investment decisions by clearly articulating architecture trade-offs, risks, dependencies, sequencing considerations, and target-state alignment.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Data, Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Architecture peers to ensure business and technology strategies are aligned.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritization by connecting business capabilities, technology roadmaps, operational impacts, and enterprise strategy.
• Create reference architectures, architecture principles, decision frameworks, and roadmap guidance that support consistent, scalable, secure, and maintainable solution delivery.
• Evaluate new business initiatives, vendor capabilities, platform options, and emerging technologies to help shape pragmatic recommendations and business cases.
• Guide modernization initiatives, including application rationalization, cloud adoption, platform simplification, integration modernization, data enablement, and workflow automation.
• Participate in architecture reviews and decision forums, communicating recommendations clearly to business and technical audiences.
• Coach and influence teams on architecture principles, business capability thinking, enterprise standards, and strategic roadmap alignment.
• Provide thought leadership, advocacy, assurance, and continuous improvement for the Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture disciplines.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of experience in technology delivery, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, business architecture, technology strategy, or related disciplines.
• 7+ years of experience creating architecture strategies and roadmaps across multiple architecture domains, such as business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, security, and cloud.
• Strong experience partnering with senior business and technology leaders to translate strategy into architecture direction, investment priorities, and execution roadmaps.
• Experience developing current-state and target-state architecture views, business capability models, value streams, application roadmaps, integration maps, and transformation plans.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture approaches, including service-oriented architecture, microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS models, and domain-aligned architecture.
• Experience with application modernization, legacy platform rationalization, cloud migration, data integration, workflow automation, and enterprise platform simplification.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns and technologies, including APIs, messaging, RESTful services, event streaming, file-based integrations, and API management platforms.
• Ability to evaluate complex technology landscapes and identify opportunities to reduce risk, improve speed to market, strengthen resiliency, simplify operations, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Strong understanding of cross-cutting architecture concerns, including security, privacy, identity, data quality, resiliency, performance, scalability, availability, observability, operational supportability, and regulatory risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business-relevant language.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

What will set you apart:

• Experience in financial services, retirement services, wealth management, benefits administration, insurance, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience supporting business or technology capabilities related to employer retirement plans, direct-to-investor wealth offerings, shared services, digital experiences, servicing, operations, data platforms, or enterprise transformation.
• Familiarity with retirement plan concepts, plan sponsor and participant experiences, wealth management platforms, customer servicing models, regulatory obligations, or financial services operations.
• Experience working with vendor platforms, third-party service providers, outsourced capabilities, or strategic technology partners.
• Experience with architecture governance, portfolio planning, business capability modeling, domain roadmaps, and enterprise transformation planning.
• Experience building or maturing Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, or architecture communities of practice.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a true business-aligned Enterprise Architect, not only as a technical architect.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job.  The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time.   You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description.   You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description.  The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) –  BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

Base Salary Range

The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Equal opportunity employer •  Drug-free workplace

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law. 

***For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption. You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or DSL internet. Other necessary computer equipment, will be provided. You may be required to work in the office if you do not have an adequate home work environment and the required internet connection.***

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