AVP, Enterprise Resource Planning Architecture

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The AVP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Architecture will be accountable for the architecture team focusing on the Enterprise Resource Planning within Federal Reserve System IT.   This role requires a partner-oriented approach to lead architects who embed with product teams, understand business context deeply, and co-create ERP solutions.

This position is considered an officer level, requiring capabilities, experiences and skills commensurate with leading a diverse team; interacts with peers and business areas throughout the System; influences internal and external parties.

What You Will Do:

Strategic Partnership & Product Engagement

• Lead team to develops deep knowledge of assigned products, including user needs, key use cases, current challenges, and strategic direction.

• Engage with key stakeholders, business areas, industry experts, and technical peers to understand how technology can support business strategies and requirements, industry trends, and the broader FRS architecture landscape.

• Work collaboratively with the business and product teams to identify technical enablers, provide realistic cost/effort estimates, surface scaling and integration risks early, and shape multi-year roadmaps that balance innovation with sustainability.

• Guide team to bring options, tradeoffs, and strategic guidance to product teams, challenging assumptions and offering better approaches where opportunities exist.

• Foster a culture where architects feel ownership over the quality, scalability, performance, and sustainability of delivered solutions.

Technical Leadership & Innovation

• Stay abreast of industry trends, and the broader FRS architecture landscape. Using this information, provide strategic direction to the business areas and architecture team in the development and maintenance of strategies that address these needs. Develop and report on metrics to demonstrate success of these strategies.

• Maintain continual awareness of industry and technology advances including process improvements, security, and service opportunities.

• Work to effectively integrate architecture practices into product development and agile delivery processes

Team Leadership & Culture

• Attract and motivate a team of high-performing architects while providing them with needed resources, experiences, and coaching. Ensure that the team is trained and leveraging best architecture practices.

• Actively drive a culture of innovation and an environment of learning which fosters engagement, risk-taking, and innovation; uphold these values in all responsibilities.

• Lead management and staff by setting forth a clear vision of functional goals; hold function(s) accountable for the successful execution of objectives. Collaborate in the development and execution of functional objectives and communicate strategic plans, priorities, and values across audiences.

• Act as a coach and mentor for technical resources across the FRS. Ensure technical teams are practicing and adopting best practices around architecture, data management, software engineering, and technology adoption. Actively contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing through informal and formal channels.

• Mentor technical staff and drive programs to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Communication & Influence

• Influence and communicate with all levels of the FRS on business, information, and complex technical subjects and roadmaps.

• Build strong relationships across business and IT stakeholders to gain common understanding and make sound decisions throu