Senior Architect - Microsoft Ecosystem & Modern Workplace

We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager, and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

About the role

This role requires a versatile technologist with a comprehensive command of the Microsoft ecosystem across security, low-code development, artificial intelligence, data, collaboration, and endpoint management. The position demands an architect capable of treating the enterprise Microsoft investment as one integrated platform rather than a collection of discrete tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps that treat Microsoft as one connected platform.
• Lead technology assessments, proofs-of-concept, and vendor evaluations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders and mentor engineers and architects.
• Present strategy and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Direct the strategy, governance, and adoption of the Power Platform, with emphasis on Power Apps and process automation (Power Automate).
• Establish standards, guardrails, and an operating model that enables safe business-led development without sprawl or risk.
• Identify opportunities for low-code solutions to replace manual processes or costly custom development.
• Define and lead the Copilot adoption strategy across Microsoft 365 and the broader platform.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities, identify business use cases, and govern responsible rollout.
• Partner with security and governance functions to manage data access, risk, and compliance for AI tools.
• Establish the enterprise approach to Microsoft Fabric, including data integration, analytics, and reporting.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to align Fabric capabilities with the broader Microsoft platform strategy.
• Apply a security-conscious lens across the Microsoft stack, with working knowledge of Microsoft Defender, Entra ID, and Purview.
• Partner with the cybersecurity function to embed security and data protection into platform decisions and support Zero Trust principles.
• Support compliance and information protection initiatives, leveraging Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Insider Risk Management.
• Provide architecture leadership for the collaboration stack — Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.
• Advance communication, knowledge sharing, and productivity, with attention to user experience.
• Provide architecture leadership for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and device platforms, including Microsoft Intune.
• Advance a modern management strategy that improves endpoint security, reliability, and the end-user experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (4-year) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; or related work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Broad, hands-on expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem, with demonstrated depth in several of the following: Microsoft security (Defender suite, Entra ID, Purview), Power Platform / Power Apps, Microsoft Copilot, collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive), modern workplace platforms (Microsoft Intune, Unified Endpoint Management), and Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into secure, practical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Broad experience across architecture practices (data, infrastructure, applications, and security) with depth of experience in at least one area.
• Knowledge of enterprise-wide architecture and ability to "see the big picture" and how it affects current and future technologies.
• Internal/external consulting experience that spans organizational boundaries and includes influencing technology and business leaders.
• Depth of experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and support of complex enterprise solutions.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and process improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise-scale delivery of Power Platform or Copilot solutions.
• Experience designing and operating Unified Endpoint Management at scale with Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and modern data platforms.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture principles.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications in security, Power Platform, Azure, endpoint management, or data and analytics.

Pay

The estimated base salary for this role is $135,000 - $168,000 / year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-term incentives depending on the role.

Benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being, including but not limited to vacation time, sick time, 401(k), and health, dental and life insurance.

Schedule

Full time, exempt.