Senior Technical Architect

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 05-Aug-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

About the Company

Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society.

We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported.

Team Overview

The Enterprise Architecture organization at Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to help lead the firm's transformation efforts. This team partners with business, product, engineering, and delivery organizations to accelerate client-centric solutions, promote consistency across technology platforms, support strategic initiatives, and ensure technology solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term business goals.

About the Role

The Senior Technical Architect provides strategic technology leadership by establishing architecture standards, guiding major technology decisions, and developing roadmaps that support business growth and modernization. This role ensures solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, risk management requirements, and operational objectives. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise and business acumen with the ability to influence technology direction across a complex enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance practices across application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
• Develop technology roadmaps and target-state architectures that support business strategy and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate architecture designs, technology options, and solution tradeoffs to ensure scalability, security, resilience, and operational effectiveness.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, and delivery leaders to align priorities, identify dependencies, and support strategic initiatives.
• Lead architecture governance and design reviews, addressing cross-domain risks and exceptions.
• Identify technology risks, technical debt, and systemic constraints, recommending solutions that improve long-term maintainability and performance.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technology strategies, architecture guidance, and investment recommendations.
• Influence technology direction across portfolios, products, and platforms while promoting enterprise standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, or related technology leadership roles, including development of technology strategies, architecture standards, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Proven experience aligning business strategy, technology investments, and execution plans.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, risk management, and enterprise decision-making processes.
• Experience working within Agile, Product Management, and portfolio-based delivery environments.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Financial services industry experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
• Experience with business capability modeling, operating model design, portfolio planning, and value stream management.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, enterprise integration patterns, cybersecurity frameworks, data platforms, and modern digital architectures.

Schedule

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• Voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness).
• Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage provided at no cost to associates.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account and flexible spending account.
• Ten paid holidays.
• 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism.
• Eligibility for bonuses and profit sharing.
• Employee Assistance Program.