Job description

Purpose of Job USAA values a culture that is highly collaborative, and we have found that a hybrid work type helps employees gain the best of both worlds – collaborating in-person in the office and working from home. The actual onsite days are settled between each employee and the employee’s manager. Candidates are encouraged to live a commutable distance from one of our offices in San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Tampa, FL, Chesapeake, VA, Colorado Springs, CO or Charlotte, NC. This position also has the option to be remote.

Holds responsibility for the development and implementation of the information architecture to support the measuring and monitoring of enterprise business needs. Maintains the design around the full set of Enterprise information capabilities that support existing and strategic business capabilities.

Job Requirements About USAA

USAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.

Primary Responsibilities:
Identifies and leads existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, supervised, and controlled.
Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
Understands the Information Governance policies and standards, while carrying out those specific to Information Architecture relating to data structures, data movement, risks, and controls.
Participates in feedback and development efforts to define the mission of the information architecture practice, goals, critical success factors, as well as policies for the Information Strategy & Architecture (IS&A).
Develop and understand conceptual models, information capabilities/categories, etc. within USAA's information architecture tools and metadata repository/catalog.
Provides insights on the end-to-end data lineage impacts from information capabilities to operational and analytical technical assets (i.e., databases and reports).
Provides key contributions of information capabilities/requirements and communicating to partners the supporting IS&A results.
Guides alignment to the USAA Enterprise Information Model (UEIM) for information and data development activities to ensure that the business is following the appropriate Enterprise IS&A direction, respectively. Educate and guide Business Partners and other Practitioners on the value and practice of IS&A program for Information Technology.
Guides business efforts by using industry reference models (financial, insurance, etc.) to identify, align and support analytical and operational informational capability requirements to help craft and influence business outcomes.
Collaborates with other architectural practitioners to influence information architecture direction, technical and data flow, and solution agnostic design decisions
Provides guidance to collaborators to build cases to secure approval and funding for data and analytical efforts.
Identifies and recommends appropriate data sources to be used in solution development and delivery as it relates to Fit for Purpose and Authoritative Data Source.
Applies knowledge to perform regular assessments of the health and maturity of information capabilities for a given domain.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related information management experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
6 years of experience in information and/or data architecture to include strategy, planning, and delivery oversight; OR If Advanced degree, 4 years’ experience in information or data architecture.
Previous experience with modern data architecture environments (Cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.).
Consistent record with embracing new technologies of the future and operationalize these to deliver value (Data Virtualization, Cloud).
Comprehensive understanding and experience working with data analysis tools and leveraging reporting and data analysis that molds the way user experiences are designed.
Demonstrated experience and ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with object and/or data modeling.
Experience in Data Information Management practices.
Experience with SAFe Scaled Agile.
Experience with large data modernization projects.
Experience working closely with the Business to design business information models for IT to develop physical data assets.
Reference data development/management experience.
Experience creating or working with ontological models.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Compensation:
USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The salary range for this position is: $106,800 - $192,300 .

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Benefits:
At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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