1 day ago
Phoenix, AZ, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$165k - $306k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise AI platform strategies, reference architectures, technology standards, governance frameworks, and multi-year roadmaps.
- Lead technical design and architecture decisions for systems, services, dataflows, and AI capabilities across multiple domains and portfolios.
- Architect and assess AI, machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, advanced analytics, cloud, security, data, and integration capabilities.
- Partner with executives, business owners, technology leaders, risk, security, legal, product, and data organizations to shape investments, operating models, and execution frameworks.
- Evaluate applications and technology solutions, identify risks and opportunities, and advise senior leaders and the CTO on recommended actions.
- Establish architecture compliance processes, risk assessments, standards waivers, controls, and responsible AI governance practices.
- Mentor experienced architects, engineers, and IT colleagues while building team redundancy and backfill capability.
- Support technology ecosystem activities, Program Increment planning, and troubleshooting of complex production incidents.
- Maintain external industry, government, and vendor relationships and contribute through certifications, conferences, publications, open source, or patents.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, platform engineering, software engineering, data architecture, or related disciplines, including leadership of enterprise-scale technology transformation initiatives.
- Experience defining enterprise platform strategies, reference architectures, technology standards, and multi-year roadmaps for emerging technology adoption.
- Experience architecting and implementing AI, machine learning, generative AI, or advanced analytics platforms with governance, security, scalability, operationalization, and risk management.
- Experience partnering across technology, product, data, risk, security, legal, and business organizations to establish governance and execution frameworks.
- Deep understanding of AI applications across architecture, software development, testing, operations, platform engineering, and developer productivity workflows.
- Ability to evaluate and influence enterprise AI investments using measurable business outcomes, adoption strategies, value metrics, and success frameworks.
- Ability to communicate complex technology strategies, architecture decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
- Experience developing AI fluency through thought leadership, education, mentoring, architecture guidance, and collaboration.
- Deep understanding of technology governance, architecture principles, security controls, regulatory considerations, and risk management in highly regulated industries.
- Experience leading cross-functional architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI domains.
- Preferred experience with AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, enterprise agent architectures, orchestration, tool integration, autonomous workflows, knowledge graphs, semantic models, vector search, metadata platforms, retrieval architectures, context engineering, AI observability, evaluation, security, and model lifecycle management.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in the office.
- Position based in San Antonio, Texas; Plano, Texas; or Phoenix, Arizona.
- Relocation assistance is available.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off, paid holidays, 16 paid volunteer hours, wellness programs, career path planning, and continuing education.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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About USAA
Since the beginning, our mission has been to provide a range of financial services to the military community and their families. Along the way, we’ve also established ourselves as a destination employer for passionate people looking to serve those who are willing to give it their all. Our mission is to stand with our members and be there for them and their families by facilitating their financial security. It starts with offering a range of highly competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice. But to be the military community’s provider of choice also takes dedicated team members who share our core values of service, loyalty, honesty, and integrity.