Technical Architect - Data Infrastructure
About the role
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. We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.
The Opportunity The Technical Architect, Data Infrastructure will set enterprise technology strategy and direction for USAA’s Data in Motion domain, governing how data moves across the association. This architect will establish standards and solutions across data streaming, distributed systems, messaging platforms, integrations, and enterprise data pipelines while ensuring architectures are secure, scalable, and resilient. The role will help advance USAA from traditional ETL and legacy integration platforms toward modern ELT, streaming, and pipeline-based approaches. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Snowflake integrations, modern ELT technologies, streaming platforms, and data lake technologies, combined with the ability to influence enterprise decisions and drive adoption across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to understand strategy, requirements, measures, risks and controls for a business function or IT domain.
- Utilizes expertise and research to create 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 trusted relationships with business and IT stakeholders