Vice President Enterprise Integration & APIs

Empower

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Empower's vision is to transform financial lives by empowering its people with a flexible work environment and fluid career paths, encouraging internal mobility, and recognizing the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. The company fosters a welcoming and inclusive environment, with associates dedicating thousands of hours to volunteering. The Vice President, Enterprise Integration & APIs will be responsible for leading the strategy, build, and operation of Empower’s enterprise Integration Hub, Streaming Data Platform, API Platform and Gateway, and Decisioning and Orchestration capabilities. This leadership role involves modernizing and scaling real-time, event-driven data and API infrastructure to power digital experiences, analytics, AI/ML deployment, and marketing activation, while upholding high standards of resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance. The VP will own the enterprise platform direction across multiple engineering and architecture teams, ensuring reliability, governance, cost transparency, and enterprise adoption. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Empower is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10 to 12+ years of progressive experience in technology and or data organizations.
• 5 to 7+ years of experience leading people leaders and senior technical leaders.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data, integration, or API platforms within a regulated industry.
• Strong expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with API architecture, gateway platforms, and developer enablement frameworks.
• Experience with event streaming technologies and modern systems integration patterns including microservices, service mesh, and hybrid integration.
• Experience operationalizing AI and ML models into production environments.
• Knowledge of model risk management frameworks and regulatory considerations related to model governance and data controls.
• Familiarity with Customer Data Platforms and marketing technology ecosystems.
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional programs with budget accountability.
• Knowledge of financial services risk and control frameworks.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and enterprise platform contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with disciplined risk management.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree such as an MBA or MS.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data, integration, or API platforms within financial services.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise vision, strategy, and operating model for the Integration Hub, Streaming Data Platform, API Platform and Gateway, and Decisioning and Orchestration capabilities.
• Establish these platforms as enterprise products with defined SLAs, adoption targets, lifecycle management, and cost transparency.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams across data engineering, software engineering, systems integration, architecture, and platform reliability engineering.
• Drive modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing.
• Design and oversee scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures aligned with enterprise technology standards.
• Enable production deployment and orchestration of AI and ML models within decisioning workflows, ensuring auditability, explainability, and model risk management compliance.
• Partner with Data Science, Risk, Marketing, and Technology stakeholders to operationalize AI and ML and advanced analytics use cases.
• Integrate Customer Data Platforms and marketing technologies with enterprise data and streaming layers to enable real-time segmentation and personalization.
• Embed privacy, consent management, and data governance controls into platform architecture and data flows.
• Maintain first-line risk ownership across platforms, ensuring alignment with model risk management standards, SOX controls, cybersecurity requirements, and third-party risk frameworks.
• Lead platform resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Oversee large, cross-functional programs with multi-million-dollar budgets, driving predictable execution through disciplined portfolio and program management.
• Establish and monitor KPIs including reliability, latency, throughput, adoption, cost efficiency, and control effectiveness.
• Lead managers and senior managers, building organizational depth, succession plans, and technical career pathways.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and inclusive engineering culture.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees