Director of Technology - Architecture

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Role Description

As the Director of Technology Architecture at BECU, you’ll do more than lead a team—you’ll help shape the future of how our credit union delivers meaningful technology to our members.

• Lead and Grow a High-Performing Team: Coach, mentor, and empower a team of architects—providing regular feedback and support through timely performance reviews and development plans.
• Architect for Performance and Scale: Create and continuously evolve architectural designs that enhance our software delivery, operational efficiency, and core banking modernization—aligned to business goals and best practices.
• Champion Strategic Alignment: Ensure that all architecture follows BECU’s standards and principles while enabling fast, flexible delivery in a modern DevOps model.
• Drive Integration and Interoperability: Develop and govern enterprise integration strategies, including APIs, messaging, and service orchestration to ensure seamless connectivity between systems—including core banking, digital channels, and third-party platforms.
• Promote Security and Risk Transparency: Bring visibility to cybersecurity and operational risks related to architecture, ensuring stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Inspire a Digital Mindset: Advocate for the use of digital technology, reference architectures, and reusable patterns—sparking innovation across teams.
• Understand the Business You Serve: Build deep awareness of BECU’s business drivers, members’ needs, and market landscape to inform sound architectural decisions—particularly in the context of core financial systems and integrations.
• Accelerate Delivery and Governance: Develop processes that enhance performance metrics, delivery capabilities, and governance models across the tech org.
• Explore What’s Next: Stay on top of emerging trends and technologies, assessing their relevance and helping senior leadership explore new opportunities—especially in core banking and fintech integration ecosystems.
• Enhance Quality with Feedback: Build reliable mechanisms for continuous feedback to improve delivery support and architectural service quality.
• Be a Voice in Technology Governance: Join leadership forums, planning sessions, and strategic initiative reviews that shape the tech roadmap at BECU.
• Jump in Where Needed: Tackle additional responsibilities and special projects that align with the mission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Technology Management, or related field
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading technology teams
• 8+ years of experience in solution design and implementation for large, strategic projects
• Demonstrated expertise in application design and integration architecture, including APIs and data interoperability
• Experience in architecture practices, processes, and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Sabsa)
• Proven leadership in both team building and technology direction
• Strong planning, collaboration, and negotiation skills at both strategic and tactical levels
• Familiarity with core banking systems, cloud-native security, and architecture concepts (e.g., Microservices, IAM, CI/CD, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)

Requirements

• Advanced degree in a related field
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks
• Exposure to financial services or credit union environments
• Familiarity with security/risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST, COBIT, ISO 27001, ITIL)
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities

Benefits

• Access to a wide array of employee benefits, such as medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
• Access to disability and AD&D insurance
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, as well as health savings accounts, to eligible employees
• Enrollment in the company’s 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan
• Accrual of 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis based on hours worked (up to a maximum of 160 PTO hours per year)
• Ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year