Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

Job Title: Vice President, Enterprise Architecture (hybrid
- Monday
- Thursday)

Location: US-GA-Atlanta (Sandy Springs)

FLSA: Exempt

The Vice President of Enterprise Architecture is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and governing Safe‑Guard’s enterprise‑wide architecture across platforms, data, applications, and processes. This role ensures the organization scales responsibly, integrates effectively, and invests in sustainable, modern technologies aligned with business growth and operational efficiency. The VP partners closely with the CIO and senior technology leaders to shape architectural strategy, guide major technology decisions, and ensure the technical environment remains resilient, high‑performing, and future‑ready.

The team is responsible for establishing and managing the AI CoE (Center of Excellence) focused on accelerating the adoption of AI across consumer-facing products through shared standards, approved tooling, reusable patterns, and close partnership with product and engineering teams. In addition, the team will lead select early-stage systems, to validate technologies, business requirements, design considerations, and possible partnerships.

As Safe‑Guard expands its platforms, products, and operational complexity, this role ensures growth is supported by intentional, cohesive architecture rather than fragmented or incremental solutions. The VP provides enterprise‑wide visibility into technology and process decisions, modernizes legacy systems, retires outdated capabilities, and enables scalable, efficient, and innovative solutions.

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and roadmap aligned with business priorities and long‑term strategy.
• Establish architectural guardrails that guide teams toward consistent, scalable solutions improving delivery efficiency and speed.
• Partner with technology leaders on evaluating platforms, tools, and technologies across the enterprise to ensure architectural consistency.
• Provide clear, outcome‑oriented guidance on architectural trade‑offs and investment decisions.
• Lead modernization efforts focused on simplifying systems, improving integration, and reducing operational friction.
• Partner with Solutions Design, Engineering, Security, and Business leaders to translate strategic objectives into practical, scalable technology solutions.
• Identify systems, processes, and patterns that do not scale and guide efforts to refactor, rebuild, or retire.
• Provide architectural leadership for strategic initiatives, including Claims 2.0 and other next‑generation SaaS platforms.
• Responsible for ensuring the company has a highly effective, scalable, and supportable Data Architecture, across Snowflake, AWS, Postgre
  
  SQL, SQL Server and Mongo
  
  DB.
• Partner with Cloud leadership teams to help define and evolve AWS and Azure strategies, cost optimization (Fin Ops), and overall best practices.
• Promote cloud‑native and platform‑based approaches that support long‑term scalability and operational efficiency.
• Establish and guide an AI CoE (Center of Excellence) focused on practical standards, governance, and responsible adoption.
• Promote AI‑first thinking where it meaningfully enhances products, productivity, and our capacity to innovate at scale.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies to determine where they deliver real business value.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated thoughtfully, securely, and sustainably across the enterprise.
• Provide direct leadership to enterprise and data architecture teams and indirect leadership across a federated technology organization.
• Operate as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and senior business partners.
• Influence outcomes through credibility, clarity, and partnership rather than formal authority alone.
• Balance strategic vision with hands‑on engagement when necessary to unblock progress or guide critical decisions.

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all‑inclusive list of position responsibilities.

• 15+ years of progressive experience across software engineering, data platforms, and…