Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture

Langley Federal Credit Union•Newport News, VA

7h•$160,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture defines the plan that aligns Langley Federal Credit Union’s technology portfolio and spending with its growth to $10 billion in assets. The role identifies capability gaps, redundant systems, and vendor overlap across the enterprise and directs efforts to rationalize and simplify the technology stack. It establishes and implements architecture, standards, and evaluation criteria for projects, platforms, and investment decisions, while leading the Technology Strategy and Architecture team and ensuring governance and examination readiness. The position is based in person at Langley’s City Center headquarters in Newport News, Virginia. The targeted salary range is $160,000–$220,000.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ten or more years of progressive technology experience.
Five or more years in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or solution architecture leadership.
Experience establishing enterprise architecture practices, technology standards, or architecture review processes in a complex organization.
Experience leading technology rationalization, system consolidation, or vendor portfolio simplification efforts.
Experience architecting in a vendor-platform environment, including platform selection, integration patterns, and configuration-over-customization trade-offs.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience in environments built primarily on commercial platforms rather than custom development.
Experience in financial services, banking, or credit union environments.
Familiarity with regulatory and examination expectations for technology governance.
Enterprise architecture certification or comparable architecture credential.

Responsibilities

Own and drive technology-stack rationalization, including sequencing consolidation and sunset efforts and presenting decisions to the CIO for approval.
Develop Langley’s technology strategy and target-state architecture to support growth to $10 billion in assets; advise the CIO on emerging technologies, platform direction, and vendor-market shifts.
Own enterprise architecture principles and technology standards for application patterns, integration, security, change management, and configuration over customization.
Extend enterprise standards to technology selected or managed by business units outside IT and ensure platform teams design within those standards.
Establish evaluation criteria and review processes for technology projects, systems, and investments at defined decision points, including platform selection and build-versus-buy.
Keep architectural decisions consistent with target-state architecture, delegate decisions within established standards to delivery leaders, and identify choices that add or retire technical debt.
Co-own enterprise data architecture standards with Data Solutions leadership and share accountability for enterprise and AI data warehouses and their data pipelines.
Coordinate with Technology Infrastructure to keep infrastructure design aligned with enterprise standards.
Lead the portfolio analysis team in diagnosing capability gaps, system and vendor overlap, lifecycle status, and technology risk to inform investment and prioritization decisions.
Represent architecture in Program Management portfolio prioritization and provide standards input to vendor evaluations and technology procurement.
Maintain enterprise architecture documentation, current- and target-state views, and the standards library for delivery decisions.
Ensure governance and examination readiness with defensible documentation of architecture decisions, standards compliance, and rationalization progress.
Lead and develop the Technology Strategy and Architecture team, including workforce planning, skill development, and performance management.
Build architecture competency across delivery teams through published standards and guidance, and partner with business leaders to align architecture decisions with business strategy and member-experience priorities.
Demonstrate Langley’s Keys to Success: service orientation, commitment to Langley’s vision and values, adaptability and innovation, collaboration and transparent communication, and continuous learning.

Benefits

Affordable medical, dental, and vision plans.
Educational assistance, including books, lab fees, and registration costs.
Student loan repayment support.
Career growth opportunities.
Paid vacation accruing from day one and increasing with service, up to a maximum cap.
13 paid holidays, including the employee’s birthday and the day after Thanksgiving, plus floating holidays.
Paid sick time.
401(k) plan with a 6% company match, immediate vesting, and a Roth IRA option.
Company-covered short- and long-term disability insurance.
Complimentary life insurance and optional additional voluntary life insurance.
Flexible health care and dependent care benefits.