System Architect Director – Data Platform Engineering

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

• Builds and continually refines detailed Architectural Runway and Vision and Enabler Epics in collaboration with various stakeholders for data platform engineering team.

• Define and lead implementation advancements of Data Platform Engineering based on requirements scalability performance and security considerations. Partner with enterprise architecture and define a clear roadmap for the platforms evolution aligning it with the organizations strategic goals.

• Lead the design and execution of AI-driven Frameworks to enable migration of data marts from on-premises platforms to cloud environments. This includes leveraging advanced AI capabilities for reverse engineering forward engineering optimized cloud-native architectures and automating schema mapping transformation logic and validation processes.

• Responsible for designing building and maintaining scalable secure and cost-efficient cloud data platforms including architecture planning migration strategies performance optimization governance and integration of AI-driven automation for data engineering workflows.

• Implement FinOps practices including tuning and usage monitoring to ensure cost efficiency across data platforms

• Ensure platform security and compliance by implementing robust identity and access management encryption and data protection measures.

• Contributes to and influences the program increment roadmap backlog and prepares architectural outcomes for program increment planning.

• Incrementally builds and shepherds the scaled agility mindset values principles and practices across teams ARTs.

• Owns measurable velocity specifically around overcoming hurdles implementing new designs and implementing best practices.

• Guides and negotiates with Developers/Engineers Tech Product Manager/Owner RTE and Enterprise Architect to ensure architectural alignment.

• Actively engages in all ART events collaborating coaching and guiding stakeholders to ensure ongoing alignment with the Architectural Vision.

• Influences and creates the ongoing Enabler Epics for maintaining and stabilizing all ART applications and pipelines including upgrades of technology frameworks and infrastructure.

• Has full management responsibility for the performance and development of subordinate staff including resource planning hiring talent performance and career development.

• Presents Architectural Overview at program increment planning socializing and enabling Product Owners and teams to successfully complete associated Enabler Epics.

• Negotiates Enabler Epic scope adjustments as needed and accepts them as they are completed.

May perform additional duties as assigned.

Reporting Relationship

Typically Director or above

Skills Knowledge & Abilities

• Deep expertise in data platform engineering cloud technologies and AI integration to ensure scalable secure and cost-efficient platforms and data engineering delivery enable

• Expert knowledge of design and implementation of enterprise workflow systems distributed cloud platform architecture intranet/internet architecture and communication architectures.

• Expert knowledge of the data development life cycle along with application program development technological alternatives and architecture methodologies for multi-platform environments.

• Expert in data engineering principles and practices experience managing code quality through pull requests and other processes.

• Extensive experience at highest technical level of all phases of data platform architecture design using state of the art architecture Data pipeline frameworks and development

• Strong knowledge of AI technology and business trends that allows architecture to solve problems in a creative and cost-effective manner.

• Expert understanding of SAFe/Agile architecture SDLC and testing practices with experience incrementally building and shepherding the scaled agility mindset values principles and practices across teams and ARTs.

• Excellent written verbal and presentation skills. Able to communicate collaborate and consult effectively with vendors clients peers and IT management and staff.

• Strong analytical problem solving and negotiations/conflict resolution skills. Able to balance technical excellence with business results.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coach influence guide and mentor teams peers clients and leadership in cross functional teams.

• Extensive experience developing strategic system architecture plans and/or architectural runways and decomposing architectural initiatives into program Epics.

• Extensive experience with information processing fundamentals understanding of current and emerging best practices.

• Proven experience identifying analyzing and resolving system problems.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree or masters Degree (preferred) in Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.

• Typically a minimum of 10 years work experience in technical delivery including experience with systems architecture methodologies concepts and frameworks like TOGAF.

• Typically a minimum of 8 years work experience with architecture in some of the following technology platforms (GCP Big Query LLMs AI Agents Composer GitHub Power BI).

• Experience with Tech insurance or finance-based products Applicable certifications preferred GCP Architect CPCU ASE SDP

• Preferred experience with Jira Confluence and Lucid Spark