Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture

Imagine being part of a company where your growth is valued and your journey is supported. Imagine yourself at Langley Federal Credit Union, where we're dedicated to shaping a meaningful path together. You belong at Langley.

Langley Federal Credit Union is one of the 100 largest credit unions in the United States with over $5B in assets and over 400,000 members. We are constantly growing and have recently expanded to neighboring states and other parts of Virginia.

Langley is committed to being the best place you will ever work, and it all begins with our comprehensive employee benefits package, which includes affordable medical, dental, and vision plans in addition to:

Investing in You:

• Educational Assistance, encompassing books, lab fees, registration costs, and more.
• Support for Student Loan Repayment.
• Abundant Career Growth Opportunities.

Time Off That Matters:

• Generous Paid Vacation that starts accumulating from day one, progressively increasing with every five years of service, up to a maximum cap.
• Celebrate 13 Paid Holidays, including your birthday and the day following Thanksgiving; enjoy Floating Holidays too!
• Paid Sick Time for all team members.

Financial Security:

• Highly competitive 401K plan featuring a 6% company match, with immediate vesting with a ROTH IRA option.
• Company-covered short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Complimentary Life Insurance and the choice of additional Voluntary Life Insurance.
• Flexible Health Care and Dependent Care benefits.

The Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture defines the overarching plan that aligns Langley's technology portfolio and spending with its growth to $10B in assets. This leader diagnoses capability gaps, redundant systems, and vendor overlap across the enterprise and directs a rationalization effort that simplifies the stack. The role establishes and implements the architecture, standards, and evaluation criteria used to assess every project, platform, and investment decision. The VP also leads the Technology Strategy and Architecture team and ensures the governance and examination readiness expected of an institution of that size.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities:

Technology Strategy and Stack Simplification

• Owns and drives the rationalization of Langley's technology stack, sequencing consolidation and sunset efforts and presenting decisions to the CIO for approval.
• Develops Langley's technology strategy and target-state architecture to support growth to $10B in assets, advising the CIO on emerging technologies, platform direction, and vendor market shifts.

Enterprise Architecture and Technology Standards

• Owns Langley's enterprise architecture principles and technology standards, covering application patterns, integration, security, change management, and configuration over customization.
• Extends enterprise standards to all technology, including systems selected or managed by business units outside IT, and ensures platform teams build their architectures within those standards.
• Establishes the evaluation criteria and review process used to assess technology projects, systems, and investments at defined decision points, such as platform selection and build-versus-buy.
• Ensures architectural decisions stay consistent with the target-state architecture, delegating decisions that fall within the standards to delivery leaders and identifying where choices add or retire technical debt.
• Co-owns enterprise data architecture standards with Data Solutions leadership, sharing equal accountability for the enterprise and AI data warehouses and data pipelines built within them.
• Coordinates with Technology Infrastructure to keep infrastructure design aligned with enterprise standards.

Portfolio Intelligence and Governance

• Leads the portfolio analysis team, which diagnoses capability gaps, system and vendor overlap, lifecycle status, and technology risk to inform investment and prioritization decisions.
• Represents architecture in Program Management's portfolio prioritization and provides standards input to vendor evaluations and technology procurement.
• Maintains enterprise architecture documentation, current-state and target-state views, and the standards library for use in delivery decisions.
• Ensures governance and examination readiness through defensible documentation of architecture decisions, standards compliance, and rationalization progress.

Leadership and Team Development

• Leads and develops the Technology Strategy and Architecture team, including workforce planning, skill development, and performance management.
• Builds architecture competency across delivery teams through published standards and guidance, and partners with business leaders to align architecture decisions with business strategy and member-experience priorities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, required; master's degree preferred.
• Ten or more years of progressive technology experience required, including:
  
  
  
  • 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 required.
  • Experience architecting in a vendor-platform environment, including platform selection, integration patterns, and configuration-over-customization trade-offs, required. Experience in environments built primarily on commercial platforms rather than custom development preferred.
  
  
  
  
• Experience in financial services, banking, or credit union environments preferred; familiarity with regulatory and examination expectations for technology governance preferred.
• Enterprise architecture certification or comparable architecture credential preferred.

Targeted Salary Range: $160,000 - $220,000

Our Keys to Success:

All Langley employees are expected to demonstrate the following Keys to Success, which reflect our shared cultural and behavioral expectations.

• Service Champion - Adopts a service orientation, building trusting relationships and delivering value for associates, members, and communities.
• Langley Ambassadors - Demonstrates a passion for Langley's vision, encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion while considering Langley's values when making decisions and taking accountability for delivering results.
• Agile in Action - Adapts to changes in the business, demonstrating innovation to improve Langley and advance the business into the future.
• Team Driven - Collaborates across Langley, communicating with transparency and prioritizing a team-based approach that delivers optimal outcomes for associates, members, and communities.
• Continuous Learners - Maintains an understanding of Langley's business and how value is delivered to members and actively pursues opportunities to grow oneself and strengthen the organization.