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PanAgora Asset Management · 18 hours ago

VP of Data Architecture

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$167K/yr - $242K/yr

10+ years exp

PanAgora Asset Management is a company focused on transforming financial lives by empowering its employees. The Vice President, Data Architecture will lead the enterprise data architecture function, ensuring alignment with business growth and modernization while overseeing the architecture team's strategic direction.

FinanceFinancial Services

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead the enterprise data architecture function, including hiring, developing, and retaining architecture talent, and setting expectations for how architecture work is produced, reviewed, and adopted across delivery organizations

Own Empower’s enterprise data architecture strategy and direction and hold the organization accountable for maintaining the target state, roadmaps, and guidance needed to execute modernization priorities

Direct the architecture team’s definition of enterprise patterns for data movement, processing, storage, and consumption across operational, analytical, and advanced analytics/AI use cases

Communicate enterprise data architecture direction to executives and delivery leaders, making tradeoffs explicit (risk, cost, stability, speed) and driving decisions that improve outcomes

Sponsor and oversee modernization of legacy data capabilities, ensuring the team drives migration sequencing, platform evolution guidance, and decommissioning plans that reduce complexity and technical debt

Partner with platform leadership to advance AWS-based cloud maturity and scalable platform patterns, ensuring the architecture team provides guardrails that enable automation, repeatability, and delivery speed

Own the enterprise approach to integration evolution and reusable integration capabilities, ensuring the team reduces point-to-point complexity and improves enterprise data access through consistent patterns

Ensure the team defines and drives API-first and event-driven patterns (including streaming where appropriate), with clear expectations for latency, scalability, resiliency, and consumer experience

Promotes the creation of architecture that conforms to enterprise standards

Oversee the definition of enterprise consumption standards across BI/reporting, APIs/data services, and analytics workbenches, including performance practices, traceability, and compliance/audit readiness

Sponsor architectural direction for ETL/ELT performance and cost optimization, ensuring the team establishes practices for tuning, workload design, capacity planning, and pipeline reliability instrumentation

Establish an architecture engagement model and operating rhythm that provides timely guidance and reduces late-cycle rework

Qualification

Data ArchitectureAWSAPI-first IntegrationCloud MaturityETL/ELT OptimizationFinancial Services ExperienceEvent-driven ArchitecturesCI/CD for Data PipelinesLeadershipCommunication Skills

Required

Minimum ten (10) years relevant IT architecture experience, including at least four (4) years of experience directly managing people, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work

High-level communications, consulting, and client relations experience with all levels of management

Strong executive acumen required

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to frame tradeoffs (risk, cost, stability, delivery speed) and drive decisions

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Experience in the retirement, wealth management, recordkeeping, or closely related financial services domain

Experience with AWS and cloud-first architectural patterns, including resiliency, automation, scalability, and cost visibility

Strong capability in reliability and operability practices, including observability, production readiness, failure modes, and availability patterns

Demonstrated ability to lead senior technical professionals and drive outcomes through influence and clear architectural decision-making

Strong understanding of enterprise data consumption patterns across BI/reporting, API/data services, and advanced analytics platforms

Strong security-by-design fundamentals for enterprise data access and integration, including encryption, access controls, auditing, and protection of sensitive data

Preferred

Master's degree in a related systems or business field (strongly desired)

Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Redshift

Experience with distributed processing patterns

Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures for data movement, including operational considerations and scalable consumption patterns

Experience shaping enterprise API strategies and developer enablement patterns, including policies and reusable capabilities

Experience implementing CI/CD enablement for data pipelines, including testing strategies, deployment guardrails, and rollback approaches

Experience with cloud-native runtime environments such as Kubernetes

Familiarity with modern observability and monitoring approaches and tools

Experience partnering with innovation teams to implement analytics or GenAI capabilities in a controlled, secure way

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.

Company

PanAgora Asset Management

PanAgora Asset Management is a quantitative investment manager whose proprietary approach is designed to capitalize on inefficiencies across market cycles and to deliver relative and absolute returns through distinct and innovative equity, multi-asset and risk premia strategies.

Founded in 1989

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

51-200 employees