Assistant Vice President – Enterprise Architecture

About the role

Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union is seeking an Assistant Vice President – Enterprise Architecture to join their Enterprise Data and Intelligence team. The position offers a hybrid schedule (remote/onsite) after a training period at the RBFCU Administrative Service Center located at 1 Ikea-RBFCU Pkwy, Live Oak, Texas 78233. Applicants must reside in Texas and have the capability to perform work remotely from their home.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the enterprise architecture function, including operating model design, governance processes, architectural standards, and documentation frameworks across business, application, data, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Align business strategy to technology execution by partnering with executive leadership, product teams, and IT to ensure initiatives are sequenced, rationalized, and connected to enterprise outcomes.
• Develop and maintain current state and target state enterprise architecture artifacts that provide transparency, reduce duplication, and guide long-term investment decisions.
• Eliminate data and system friction by rationalizing platforms, integration patterns, and architectural decisions to reduce technical debt and improve scalability.
• Enable analytics, AI, digital transformation, and modernization initiatives by embedding architectural guardrails that promote reuse, scalability, and long-term flexibility.
• Standardize technology and integration practices without slowing innovation by defining clear enterprise principles, patterns, and decision rights.
• Embed security, privacy, risk, and regulatory considerations into architecture from day one in partnership with Information Security, Risk, and Legal.
• Establish prioritization, sizing, and sequencing frameworks that create a shared enterprise language for resource planning and initiative execution.
• Serve as the enterprise authority on architectural integrity, modernization strategy, platform rationalization, and M&A integration support.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED.
• Minimum five years of job-related work experience.
• Minimum five years of leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing an enterprise architecture capability.
• Proven ability to align business strategy with technology and delivery execution.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, integration patterns, application portfolio rationalization, and data architecture principles.
• Experience operating in regulated environments with embedded compliance and security considerations.
• Demonstrated executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization efforts or enterprise transformations.
• Familiarity with enterprise technology, data, and analytics platforms.
• Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles across business, data, application, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Experience creating architectural guardrails that balance standardization and agility.
• Strong systems thinking and analytical capability.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional workshops and architectural review processes.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust across business and technology teams.
• Understanding of analytics and AI enablement patterns within enterprise environments.
• Experience operating in ambiguity and building structure where none currently exists.

Preferred

• Graduation from accredited college/university with Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Services, Information Assurance, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Experience contributing to M&A due diligence or integration efforts.
• Familiarity with adaptive architecture frameworks; knowledge of TOGAF or similar frameworks.