Hybrid Technical Principal – Enterprise Architecture Patterns

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About the role

  • Technical Principal responsible for enterprise architecture at GM Financial, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and govern architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior enterprise architecture authority, defining and governing North Star and Reference Architecture Patterns that demonstrate industry-leading best practices aligned to GM Financial business and technology objectives
  • Define enterprise-wide architecture principles, standards, and design goals, providing hands-on leadership in documenting and diagramming logical, physical, integration, and process architectures across multiple business domains
  • Own the reference pattern lifecycle—from ideation and validation through adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement
  • Provide technology leadership and architectural oversight for the shared services portfolio, spanning multiple cross functional initiatives supporting strategic growth, scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance
  • Partner with platform teams to ensure shared services are productized, consumable, secure, and aligned with enterprise reference architectures
  • Define and govern AI enabled reference architectures, including GenAI, ML platforms, intelligent automation, decisioning, and analytics—ensuring responsible, secure, and scalable adoption
  • Establish architectural patterns for AI integration, including model hosting, prompt orchestration, API enablement, data pipelines, MLOps, model governance, observability, and cost management
  • Collaborate with Data, Risk, Security, and Legal partners to embed AI ethics, explainability, regulatory compliance, and data privacy into enterprise patterns by design
  • Act as a key liaison across Lines of Business, Cloud Platform Services, Security, IT Delivery, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Risk, Operations, and Corporate Functions to align architecture decisions across programs and portfolios
  • Identify and advise on emerging technologies—including cloud, AI, data platforms, and integration tooling—that reduce cost, improve resiliency, enhance security, and increase business value
  • Lead or support proofs of concept, reference implementations, and architectural spikes to validate new patterns before enterprise adoption
  • Evangelize architecture standards and reference patterns through presentations, architecture reviews, written guidance, and direct engagement with engineering teams
  • Play a lead role in shaping, governing, and actively participating in GM Financial’s Global Architecture Council (GAC)
  • Represent GM Financial architecture in internal leadership forums and external industry engagements as appropriate

Requirements

  • Experience architecting and delivering solutions across multiple enterprise architecture domains (application, data, technology, and infrastructure)
  • Experience designing and delivering Azure cloud native architectures, including APIs, microservices, containers, and event-driven systems
  • Working knowledge of financial services architectures, data management practices, and regulatory considerations
  • Hands on experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and Tools such as TOGAF, C4, LeanIx, ArchiMate, or equivalent
  • Experience architecting enterprise shared services including Identity & Access Management, Content Management, Entity Management, Logging, Monitoring, and Observability
  • Proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Information Security, or related field
  • Greater than 10 years in related function required
  • 3-5 years leading through mentorship in related field required
  • 3-5 years leading projects and initiatives through influence required

Benefits

  • 401K matching
  • Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
  • Tuition assistance
  • Training
  • GM employee auto discount
  • Community service pay
  • Nine company holidays

Job title

Technical Principal – Enterprise Architecture Patterns

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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