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Join the People Helping People
Velera is the nation's premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose:
We accelerate partners' success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a talented Manager, Platform & AI Architecture who will play a key role in defining the platform and AI architecture strategy at Velera.
This role will lead a team of architects responsible for establishing architecture standards, patterns, and guiding the design of automation and AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise.
Day In The Life
- Partner with Business Process teams and product stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation and AI enablement, and define architectural approaches to support them
- Define and evolve a comprehensive platform and AI architecture strategy aligned with organizational objectives
- Establish architecture principles, standards, and patterns to guide the design and implementation of automation and AI-enabled solutions
- Define success metrics and KPIs to measure the adoption, effectiveness, and impact of architecture capabilities
- Stay abreast of emerging automation and AI technologies, evaluating their applicability within Velera's architecture landscape
- Evaluate and recommend platforms, tools, and reference architectures to enable scalable and secure automation capabilities
- Provide architectural oversight and guidance to delivery teams, ensuring alignment with established standards and enterprise architecture direction
- Mentor and develop architects, fostering strong architectural thinking, design quality, and consistency across solutions
- Create and deliver presentations to senior management, client executives, and vendors
- Assist Technology Delivery leadership in establishing, maintaining, and communicating the division strategic plan
- Provide leadership and direction to a team of architects, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance processes
- Coach, mentor, and develop architects, fostering strong design practices, architectural thinking, and consistency across solutions
- Support talent acquisition and development of architectural capabilities, including participation in hiring, performance feedback, and career growth planning
- Establish clear expectations for architectural deliverables, quality, and adherence to standards
- Promote collaboration across architecture, engineering, and business teams to ensure effective solution design and alignment with enterprise strategy
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- 7+ years of experience in technology roles, with a strong focus on platform architecture, enterprise architecture, or solution architecture
- Proven experience defining and implementing architecture strategies, standards, and governance processes within a complex organization
- Experience enabling automation, AI, or digital capabilities through architecture design and platform strategy (financial services experience preferred)
- Previous experience leading architecture teams or driving architectural outcomes across cross-functional organizations
- Strong understanding of architecture frameworks, design patterns, and platform-based solution design
- Ability to define and communicate architecture strategy, principles, and standards to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience influencing and guiding delivery teams without direct ownership of implementation
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex systems and define scalable architectural solutions
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in balancing innovation, risk, and…
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