Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and AI

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Vision

• Set and own Genworth's enterprise architecture vision and long-term technology strategy, ensuring direct alignment with business objectives and the Future-Proof Technology Strategy.
• Establish and govern target-state architectures, business capability models, value streams, and enterprise technology roadmaps that drive investment decisions, platform modernization, and portfolio rationalization.
• Lead enterprise-wide current-state assessments and strategic gap analyses across application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration domains to shape transformation priorities and capital allocation.
• Drive architectural coherence and technology simplification across the enterprise, reducing fragmentation and ensuring solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned to shared enterprise standards.
• Serve as the enterprise's chief architectural authority, providing executive-level strategic counsel on technology direction, platform strategy, emerging risks, and long-term technology investments.

AI Strategy & Enterprise Enablement

• Own and drive the enterprise AI strategy, architecture roadmap, and reference frameworks that enable scalable, responsible, and measurable AI adoption across Genworth and CareScout.
• Lead the vision and architecture for AI capabilities including machine learning, generative AI/LLMs, intelligent automation, agentic AI patterns, and advanced analytics at enterprise scale.
• Establish comprehensive AI governance frameworks covering model lifecycle management, responsible AI principles, data quality, bias monitoring, explainability, and regulatory compliance.
• Own the enterprise AI intake and prioritization process, ensuring AI investments are strategically aligned to high-value business outcomes and governed by enterprise architecture standards.
• Partner with executive leaders across the organization to identify transformative AI opportunities and drive enterprise-wide adoption.
• Represent the company’s AI vision and capabilities to the Board of Directors, regulators, industry forums, and strategic partners.

Architecture Governance & Standards

• Establish and chair the Architecture Review Board (ARB), ensuring enterprise architectural decisions are consistent, strategically governed, and positioned to enable—not gate—delivery.
• Define and enforce architecture governance processes, policies, and enterprise standards leveraging frameworks such as TOGAF and industry best practices.
• Own the development and evolution of architecture principles, reference models, technology standards, and enterprise pattern libraries that accelerate delivery and promote reuse at scale.
• Govern the enterprise technology portfolio to optimize investments, reduce redundancy, retire technical debt, and ensure alignment to target-state architectures and business priorities.
• Ensure enterprise architecture and AI practices support regulatory compliance, data governance, privacy, and security-by-design principles across all technology domains.

Business Partnership & Strategic Advisory

• Serve as a trusted executive advisor to the CIO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors on technology direction, AI strategy, architectural trade-offs, and enterprise risk.
• Translate complex business and market challenges into elegant, scalable architectural strategies that balance immediate operational needs with long-term enterprise positioning.
• Partner at the executive level with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Delivery, and business leaders to ensure architectural alignment and shared accountability across all technology domains.
• Own enterprise-level build vs. buy recommendations, vendor platform evaluations, and strategic technology investment decisions with clear architectural and business rationale.
• Deliver executive-level reporting on architecture maturity, AI enablement progress, technology risk posture, and strategic outcomes to senior leadership and Board-level governance forums.
• Represent Genworth externally in industry forums, technology partnerships, and peer networks to advance the company's technology reputation and inform strategic direction.

Technology Modernization & Innovation

• Drive enterprise technology modernization strategy including cloud adoption, API-enabled architectures, microservices, platform rationalization, and legacy-to-modern transitions across Genworth's insurance and digital ecosystems.
• Own enterprise integration strategy connecting core insurance platforms, digital channels, data ecosystems, CareScout services, and third-party partners through modern, scalable architectural patterns.
• Anticipate and evaluate emerging technologies, architectural paradigms, and AI advancements, providing the enterprise with a forward-looking perspective on opportunities, risks, and strategic implications.
• Champion innovation by sponsoring proof-of-value initiatives across AI, automation, intelligent document processing, advanced analytics, and next-generation platform capabilities.
• Advance business target architectures and the enterprise architecture pattern library to accelerate delivery velocity and promote consistent, reusable solutions across the organization.

Build & Lead High-Performing Teams

• Build, lead, and scale a world-class architecture and AI organization, attracting and retaining top talent across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, data architecture, AI engineering, and related disciplines.
• Develop and mentor the next generation of architecture and AI leaders, building deep bench strength and a clear succession pipeline.
• Foster a community of practice across architecture roles—unifying Principal Architects, Solution Architects, Business Architects, and Technology Architects under a shared vision, common framework, and collaborative culture.
• Lead through transformation with executive presence, empathy, and clarity, helping teams and the broader organization navigate change and the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
• Champion a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and business-aligned decision-making that reflects Genworth's values: Make it human, Make it about others, Make it happen, Make it better.