Enterprise Architect - Integration - empower

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.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

The Enterprise Architect - Integration is a senior technology leadership role responsible for defining and governing Empower's enterprise integration strategy across APIs, events, messaging, batch/file transfer, SaaS platforms, cloud-native services, legacy systems, data flows, and partner ecosystems.

This role partners closely with business and technology teams to create a technology vision and ensure that resulting systems and solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, reusable, and aligned with business capabilities. The architect will develop integration strategies, reference architectures, reusable patterns, roadmaps, standards, and guidance across the IT delivery organization while addressing total cost of ownership, stability, performance, operational efficiency, and risk.

The ideal candidate combines enterprise-level architecture leadership with practical delivery experience. They can evaluate technology options, influence architecture decisions, explain trade-offs, coach delivery teams, and rapidly prove technical concepts using modern integration platforms, cloud services, automation, and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a business-aligned integration architecture strategy and vision for Empower.
• Develop, document, and maintain technology roadmaps for enterprise integration capabilities, including API management, event streaming, messaging, iPaaS, data integration, cloud integration, and partner connectivity.
• Create reference architectures, reusable patterns, standards, and decision frameworks for integration across applications, data, SaaS, legacy, and third-party ecosystems.
• Guide teams on when to use synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, batch/file transfer, data replication, change data capture, or workflow/process orchestration.
• Leverage knowledge of service-oriented architecture, microservices, domain-driven design, APIs, events, and integration patterns to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
• Ensure technology teams understand how to use RESTful APIs, resource-oriented design, OpenAPI, API gateways, event brokers, message queues, schema registries, integration runtimes, and modern authentication patterns.