Teams at Empower (empower)

Designs and guides cloud and data architectures, modernization initiatives, governance standards, integrations, and scalable data platforms. Partners with architects, business leaders, and engineering teams to define target-state solutions, evaluate emerging technologies, and support implementation. The role emphasizes AWS, Snowflake or Redshift, security, resilience, performance, cost optimization, data engineering, streaming, APIs, and applied AI patterns.

Lead design and evolution of API-first and event-driven integration architectures. Define integration patterns (REST/gRPC, async messaging), data contracts, resilience strategies, and modernization of legacy integrations. Provide architectural leadership, governance, mentoring, and best practices for API lifecycle and distributed system reliability.

Leads enterprise integration architecture strategy across APIs, events, messaging, cloud, SaaS, legacy systems, data flows, and partner ecosystems. Develops roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, governance, security practices, and modernization strategies. Guides technology teams on integration patterns, DevOps, platform engineering, reliability, observability, and operational readiness. Evaluates platforms and vendors, influences architecture decisions, coaches teams, and collaborates with business, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, operations, and third-party stakeholders.