Director Enterprise Architect

About the role

Church Pension Group (CPG) is a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, located in Midtown Manhattan. Founded in 1917 to provide pension benefits to eligible clergy of the Episcopal Church, CPG’s mission has expanded to include life and disability insurance, health benefits, property & casualty insurance, and publishing.

The Director Enterprise Architect acts as the bridge between business intent and technical implementation, translating business intent into architectural choices and translating architectural constraints back to the business to support informed decision-making. The role ensures that business, application, and data align with CPG’s business, technology, and governance strategies, policies, and standards. As a thought leader, the Director provides guidance, principles, and best practices for designing, selecting, building, configuring, and deploying business capabilities through application and technology solutions.

Effective performance of the essential functions of this position requires regular in-person, on-site interaction with colleagues for relationship building and meaningful collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the translation of business priorities into architectures and strategies to enable delivery of optimal solutions.
• Ensure that architectural solutions are business-appropriate and long-term sustainable.
• Provide architectural guidance to development teams working on applications, systems, and platforms.
• Create and maintain architectural diagrams and related documentation.
• Define, scope, and build proof-of-concept implementations.
• Help define the application landscape and enabling technologies.
• Develop and maintain a pragmatic target architecture.
• Support the design and maturation of CPG’s AI governance framework and implementation.
• Assess AI and other emerging technologies and recommend adoption where they can deliver business value.
• Set and maintain a set of key IT architectural principles and standards for the enterprise.
• Ensure alignment of application selection, implementation, and development with architectural principles and standards in collaboration with Data Architect, TSAs, and Engineers.
• Define measurable success and failure criteria for tool, product, and process changes.
• Drive continuous rationalization across CPG’s application and technology portfolio to eliminate inefficiencies and duplication in collaboration with the VMO.
• Review solution architectures based on established enterprise application strategy.
• Work with key members of the ITS management team to define and drive technical strategy and architectural direction for various applications and systems.
• Communicate system solutions, recommend approaches, and support project teams through the deployment of the solutions.
• Guide the design of reusable technology solution components and patterns.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, data concepts, cloud fundamentals, and AI.
• Proven track record of translating business strategy and requirements into optimal technical architecture.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• Strong business architecture perspective.
• Strong understanding of application design principles and demonstrable use of those principles in application architecture.
• Knowledge of application design patterns, data modeling, service-oriented integration, and business intelligence domains.
• Experience in architecting and designing scalable, secure, high-performing, and sustainable business systems.
• Experience leading solution architecture and design sessions with members of applications and technology teams.
• Experience with transactional applications in industries such as benefits, financial, and/or healthcare is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in interacting and negotiating with business stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven track record of influencing without authority.
• Excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• BA/BS preferred; combination of work and experience considered.
• 10+ years of experience in development, solution, and application or enterprise architecture roles.
• Experience in architecting and designing scalable, secure, high-performing, and sustainable business systems.
• Experience leading solution architecture and design sessions with members of applications and technology teams.
• Experience with transactional applications in industries such as benefits, financial, and/or healthcare.

Schedule

Hybrid work environment, requiring in-office work Tuesdays through Thursdays and remote work on Mondays and Fridays.

Pay

Salary range: $170,000–$195,000.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits available to eligible employees:
  • Medical (including Vision)
  • Dental
  • 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Commuter Benefits
  • New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents)
  • Educational Assistance Program
  • Parental Leave
  • Time Off: Vacation, Sick, Personal, and Holidays
• Core benefits automatically provided to eligible employees:
  • Employer-funded defined benefit pension plan (five-year vesting)
  • Employee Life Insurance
  • Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage
  • Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax)
  • Business Travel Accident Insurance
  • Worker’s Compensation
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years)
  • Retiree life insurance
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to program rules.