AI Enterprise Architect (Hybrid)
Securian Financial Group, Inc.3 days ago
St. Paul, MN, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$139k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish and drive the enterprise target-state AI platform architecture and design.
- Define, maintain, approve, publish, version, and retire reusable AI solution and architecture patterns and assets.
- Serve as the enterprise approval authority for AI patterns and adjudicate design deviations.
- Define and champion AI development, deployment, governance, responsible AI, and architectural metadata standards.
- Lead solution design and validation consultations for teams integrating and deploying AI use cases.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture to align AI patterns with enterprise principles, templates, and long-term technology strategy.
- Advise on AI platform and tool evaluations, platform fit, scalability, architectural impact, and buy-versus-build decisions.
- Research emerging AI technologies and translate applicable capabilities into candidate enterprise patterns.
- Support AI opportunity intake and prioritization from an architectural perspective.
- Provide architectural leadership for moving AI solutions from experimentation to production and contribute to the AI platform and pattern roadmap.
- Coach delivery teams and senior technical and business partners while driving adoption of standards across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Extensive, progressive experience architecting and designing enterprise solutions using AI, ML, or advanced analytics technologies.
- Experience operating at a principal or lead-architect level.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or running architecture pattern, standards, or governance practices, including authoring, reviewing, approving, and publishing reusable patterns or reference architectures.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including experience mentoring and coaching solution architects, delivery teams, and enterprise leaders.
- Proven ability to lead architecture reviews, drive standards adoption, and balance consistency with pragmatic deviations.
- Deep understanding of common architecture and integration patterns in modern AI and data ecosystems.
- Experience with cloud services, preferably AWS, and AI-related capabilities such as model hosting, vector databases, event streaming, agentic platforms, and generative AI platforms.
- Experience evaluating technical capabilities, assessing platform fit, and recommending strategic buy-versus-build approaches.
- Broad knowledge of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into architectural options, patterns, and decisions.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to research and learn emerging AI technologies.
- Experience working in agile environments and cross-functional product teams.
- Background in financial services or another regulated industry.
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of three in-office days per week for employees within a 90-minute commuting distance.
- Paid time off with additional PTO based on tenure.
- Flexible parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave programs.
- Nine company-paid holidays.
- Company-funded pension plan and 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions tied to performance, up to 10 percent of eligible earnings and a 5 percent target.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible associates and family members from the first day of employment.
- Volunteer paid time off, company-sponsored events, and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program.
- Associate Resource Groups supporting professional connections and diverse interests.
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About Securian Financial Group, Inc.
Securian Financial Group sells life insurance, annuities, retirement plans, and related protection products to individuals, families, and employers. It distributes through employers, financial professionals, and affinity partners, serving over 22 million customers in the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 1880 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, the privately held company operates through subsidiaries including Minnesota Life Insurance Company and Securian Life Insurance Company.