Sr Architect

About Our Company

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.

Job Description

Develop and manage road maps and technical designs, govern implementations and ensure ongoing application health by applying a broad understanding of all areas of architectural domains (data, infrastructure, applications and security).

Expertise will be applied to highly complex and/or broad scale projects in a general area or focused in a specific technical area (e.g. Data, Solutions or Technology Architecture).

Translate business needs into technical solutions by planning, developing and refining to-be architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Main Areas Architecture and Governance of Serverless Computing, Container Orchestration and App/Web Servers
• Infrastructure Architecture for Public Cloud and Traditional Data Centers
• DevSecOps practices and a firm understanding of development processes
• Resilience, Recovery, Observability and Security of the above areas
• Strategy/Road Map Development
• Design of Repeatable Patterns
• Risk Assessment
• Decision Facilitation
• Developing and Managing Architecture Standards
• Strategy/Road Map Development
• Align and promote enterprise technology (data, infrastructure, applications and security) principles and strategy.
• Contribute to and author application and capability strategies.
• Establish, maintain and apply architecture standards, disciplines and principles.
• May or may not lead people.
• Use appropriate design techniques and methodologies to translate project requirements into detailed designs, consistent with platform strategy and road map.
• Create effective and efficient control patterns, conduct risk evaluations, and enforce policies and standards to enable the enterprise to conduct business at an appropriate level of risk.
• Research and recommend technology to improve current systems.
• Ensure capabilities are reviewed and compliant with appropriate levels of risk respective to hardware/software currency, performance/availability, security and information/transaction integrity and drive the awareness of required improvements.
• Maintain deep expertise in architectural modeling, frameworks, emerging technologies, and best practices.
• Mentor and develop less experienced technical staff.
• Provide technical leadership in both business-as-usual and crisis conditions.
• Recommend new procedures and processes to drive desired results on diverse projects.
• Perform industry research with external parties and maintain networks amongst peers.
• Develop and communicate governance parameters that take into account stakeholders' interests and processes with measurable results.
• Partner with other architects to ensure alignment and integration across portfolio boundaries and promote an enterprise focus on applications management.
• Develop and build strong relationships within and across the lines of business and use effective communication skills to influence and accomplish strategic application architecture objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or related work experience.
• 5-7+ years of relevent work experience required.
• Deep experience in serverless computing and PaaS products, container orchestration products such as Kubernetes and associated technologies, application and web servers such as Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP and Microsoft IIS.
• 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.
• Demonstrated capability in implementing AI and ML technologies.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and toolsets, for example Snowflake.
• Demonstrates thought leadership, strategic thinking with a comprehensive perspective on how current actions influence both present outcomes and future developments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services industry specific knowledge that includes working knowledge of industry data standards and architectures.
• AWS integration solutions such as Batch, Glue, Data Pipeline, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, etc.
• Understand of Mainframe/COBOL systems.