Job responsibilities
- Develop and execute comprehensive plans for architecture governance programs, incorporating stakeholder coordination, review cadences, and timelines to ensure on-time delivery of ARB decisions, compliance milestones, and OKR commitments across CDAS
- Own end-to-end operations of the CDAS Architecture Review Board (ARB), including setting agendas, coordinating pre-reads, facilitating sessions, capturing decisions and action items, and driving closure across submission cycles
- Coordinate adherence to technology architecture and design control standards across CDAS, supporting evidence collection, gap remediation tracking, and audit-readiness
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across CDAS towers to drive adoption of common development standards and AI for tech engineering practices, tracking progress, surfacing blockers, and reporting adoption status to leadership
- Maintain visibility into CDAS OKR commitments, consolidating progress updates from contributing teams and flagging risks to leadership in time to course-correct
- Utilize advanced analytical reasoning to assess governance program performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement data-driven optimizations to enhance the efficiency of architecture review and compliance processes
- Author and distribute the CDAS Architecture newsletter, leadership briefings, and stakeholder updates that synthesize complex technical decisions and program status into clear, audience-appropriate communications
- Serve as the primary point of contact for inbound architecture queries and review requests from peer towers within CDAS, ensuring timely triage, routing, and follow-through aligned with CDAS standards
- Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate governance planning and risk synthesis, consolidating inputs into integrated plans, RAID logs, and executive-ready updates, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity requirements
- Champion agile delivery practices and continuous improvement across architecture governance, maintaining living documentation including playbooks, templates, and decision frameworks
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, leading complex technology programs in a large organization
- Demonstrated experience running architecture governance, review boards, or technology steering committees, including agenda management, decision tracking, and stakeholder facilitation
- Experience supporting technology compliance or controls programs, including tracking obligations, coordinating evidence, and working with audit or risk teams to maintain standards adherence
- Advanced expertise in stakeholder management, with the ability to establish productive working relationships and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams and senior technology leaders
- Demonstrated use of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support program management workflows, with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
- Ability to review and validate AI-assisted plans, risks, and recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following data handling expectations
- Proven track record of effectively managing resources, budgets, and high-performing teams in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Demonstrated proficiency in applying analytical reasoning and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, or operational objectives into manageable tasks and activities
- Prior experience supporting an enterprise architecture or technology office function within a large financial services or technology organization
- Experience coordinating engineering standards or AI for tech adoption programs across a distributed engineering organization
- Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost management practices in an enterprise context
- Experience managing cross-tower newsletter or communications programs at the technology leadership level
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent program management certification