Senior AI Cloud Architect

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC • Minneapolis, MN

2d • $120,000 - $152,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or related work experience.
• 5-7+ years of relevant 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
• Experience in public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• Broad experience across architecture practices (data, infrastructure, applications and security) with depth of experience in at least one area.
• Has experience in architecting data pipelines from the System of Records (SOR) to architecting lake warehouses.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and Generative AI use cases
• 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.
• Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

Nice To Haves

• Significant business knowledge and have one or more areas of concentrated technical expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to explain highly technical solutions to technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Develop current to future state architecture road maps.
• 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.
• Design external system interface architecture that includes appropriate application of techniques and standards.
• Determine integrated hardware and software architecture solutions that meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability, security and business/functional requirements.
• 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.
• Develop AI architecture and navigate the business through the AI governance process.

Benefits

• We also have 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level