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The System Architect (SA) Director has overall technical authority for one or more programs/Agile Release Trains (ARTs) within a portfolio, hands on leader with direct management accountability for a staff of Engineers. The SA Director works closely with an Enterprise Architect, Product Management and Release Train Engineer (RTE) to ensure ongoing alignment of technical and business outcomes. They also work with Technical Architects, as needed, to ensure architectural outcomes are within required guardrails. The SA Director owns the creation, maintenance and communication of the Architectural Runway, along with oversight through implementation by one or more development teams. The SA Director is an expert and champion of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) architectural design and development, incrementally building the associated mindset and behaviors across stakeholders with which they work.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:
Define and lead implementation, advancements of Data Platform Engineering, based on requirements, scalability, performance, and security considerations. Partner with enterprise architecture and define a clear roadmap for the platform's evolution, aligning it with the organization's strategic goals.
Lead the design and execution of AI-driven Frameworks to enable migration of data marts from on-premises platforms to cloud environments. This includes leveraging advanced AI capabilities for reverse engineering, forward engineering optimized cloud-native architectures, and automating schema mapping, transformation logic, and validation processes.
Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud data platforms, including architecture planning, migration strategies, performance optimization, governance, and integration of AI-driven automation for data engineering workflows.
Incrementally builds and shepherds the scaled agility mindset, values, principles, and practices across teams, ARTs.
Owns measurable velocity, specifically around overcoming hurdles, implementing new designs, and implementing best practices.
Guides and negotiates with Developers/Engineers, Tech Product Manager/Owner, RTE, and Enterprise Architect to ensure architectural alignment.
Influences and creates the ongoing Enabler Epics for maintaining and stabilizing all ART applications and pipelines, including upgrades of technology, frameworks, and infrastructure.
Has full management responsibility for the performance and development of subordinate staff, including resource planning, hiring, talent, performance, and career development.
May perform additional duties as assigned.
Typically, Director or above
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Deep expertise in data platform engineering, cloud technologies, and AI integration to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platforms and data engineering delivery enable
Expert knowledge of design and implementation of enterprise workflow systems, distributed cloud platform architecture, intranet/internet architecture, and communication architectures.
Expert understanding of SAFe/Agile, architecture, SDLC, and testing practices with experience incrementally building and shepherding the scaled agility mindset, values, principles, and practices across teams and ARTs.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills. Able to communicate, collaborate and consult effectively with vendors, clients, peers, and IT management and staff.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coach, influence, guide and mentor teams, peers, clients and leadership in cross functional teams.
Typically, a minimum of 10 years’ work experience in technical delivery, including experience with systems architecture methodologies, concepts and frameworks like TOGAF.
Typically, a minimum of 8 years’ work experience with architecture in some of the following technology platforms (GCP, Big Query,LLM’s,AI Agents, Composer, GitHub, Power BI).
Experience with Tech, insurance or finance-based products Applicable certifications preferred – GCP Architect, CPCU, ASE, SDP
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In certain jurisdictions, CNA is legally required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. In District of Columbia,California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington, the national base pay range for this job level is $72,000 to $141,000 annually. Salary determinations are based on various factors, including but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.
CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contactleaveadministration@cna.com.
