Technical Architect Staff-Data and Analytics

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

USAA’s Data and Analytics Architecture team is seeking a dedicated Technical Staff Architect-Data and Analytics. This critical role will shape the strategic direction of our data and analytics practice, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI capabilities to enhance business outcomes. You will collaborate with architecture peers and business stakeholders to drive innovation, align Domain’s goals with overall business objectives, and ensure successful implementation of data analytics initiatives. You will play a critical role in establishing architectural standards, patterns, and practices for this Domain. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to the IT Engineering team(s), ensuring implementation of the recommended architecture.  

Sets technology strategy, direction and provides architecturally compliant solutions for a business function and/or technical domain(s). Utilizes unique knowledge and experience to research, integrate, architect and influence innovative technology initiatives aligned to USAA's mission, brand pillars and strategic priorities.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Collaborates with business and IT partners to understand strategy, requirements, measures, risks and controls for a business function or IT domain.

• Applies expertise and research to build technology decisions with relevant architecture artifacts and proactively apply architecture thinking to conceive evolutionary strategies and roadmaps that can accelerate current capabilities for a business function or technology domain.

• Cultivates productive and positive relationships with business and IT partners, as well as engineering resources, to provide leadership and mentorship to influence and shape priority, cost transparency and execution of architecture solutions and domain direction.

• Assess domain applications in collaboration with business and application owners to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and risks. Advise business owners of proposed courses of action.

• Defines and documents architecture standards for a technology domain to ensure architectural compliance of technology solutions. Use risk assessment methodologies to draft/evaluate and approve/reject waivers to architecture standards.

• Participates in activities that support the USAA technology ecosystem such as workstream planning, solution design reviews, code reviews, test case definition, and assistance in troubleshooting of Availability Command Center incidents to resolve complex production issues related to a technology domain.

• Provides professional and technical mentorship for new architects, engineers and IT community colleagues in an open, respectful, flexible and empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability.

• Executes architecture practices and processes by accurately crafting and maintaining architecture domain documentation, ensuring timely completion of deliverables and suggesting improvements.

• Establishes external relationships with contacts on industry organizations and government boards and vendors in the marketplace related to a business function or technology domain.

• Establishes a plan to gain external eminence by pursuing professional and industry technical certifications, presenting at conferences, publishing technical papers, contributing to open source, authoring patents, etc..

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 10 years of experience in the Information Technology field to include at least 2 years in a technical leadership role within IT.

• Experience in technology application developme