AI/Digital Architecture Director
Voya Financial, Inc2 days ago
Remote, United States or Hartford, CT, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the target architecture and modernization roadmap for Voya’s customer-facing digital application ecosystem.
- Establish standards and reusable patterns for React applications, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and enterprise domain integrations.
- Lead architectural approaches for agentic AI, AI-native applications, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, and AI-enabled software development.
- Define secure integration patterns across digital applications, enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and legacy systems.
- Ensure architecture incorporates application security, authentication, authorization, privacy, resilience, and zero-trust principles.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities for measurable customer and business value.
- Partner with digital, engineering, data, platform, security, product, and business leaders to translate strategy into implementable architecture.
- Guide and develop a small blended team of architects, employees, and contractors.
- Communicate complex architecture decisions to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience where permitted.
- At least ten years of progressively responsible experience in digital application architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Experience designing or leading end-to-end architecture for customer-facing digital applications.
- Strong knowledge of modern web application architecture, including React, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and core domain integrations.
- Practical experience using AI agents or agentic AI patterns for AI-native software, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, or related digital capabilities.
- Experience integrating applications with enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and complex legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of secure application architecture, authentication, authorization, application security, privacy, and zero-trust principles.
- Experience influencing matrixed engineering, digital, data, security, product, and business teams.
- Experience guiding architects, senior technologists, or blended employee and contractor teams.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred qualifications include React Native or mobile architecture experience, identity and access management expertise, regulated-industry experience, digital platform modernization, architecture governance, reusable capability design, and a related master’s degree.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
- 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions of up to 6%.
- Employer-paid Voya Retirement Plan with a 4% cash-balance contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year.
- Paid time off including 20 days, nine company holidays, and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Up to 40 hours of paid volunteer time per calendar year.
Tech Stack
ReactReact Native
Categories
About Voya Financial, Inc
Voya Financial is a public financial services company providing retirement plan recordkeeping, employee benefits, and investment management to employers, individuals, and institutions. It earns fees and premiums from workplace benefits, savings and investment products, and asset management through Voya Investment Management. Founded in 2014 after ING U.S. rebranded, the company is headquartered in New York and trades on the NYSE under the ticker VOYA.