Senior Architect - Strategy and Governance

T. Rowe Price • Owings Mills, MD

10d • $121,000 - $258,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity. Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you.

Role Summary
In this role, you will perform technical planning, architecture standards definition, manage and continuously improves the design and implementation of architecture artifacts and processes including the governance bodies to support the architecture function within T Rowe Price. This opportunity will also require that you assess the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
Are you a go-to resource for colleagues with less experience who is also capable of leading projects or work streams? If this describes you, we encourage you to apply!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 5+ years of total relevant work experience
• You are up-to-speed with industry trends and technologies with the ability to comprehend their functions and capabilities and how to apply them appropriately.
• Understands common architecture frameworks and models
• Understands, and is able to apply, meta-models, taxonomies, and ontologies
• Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in the asset management industry

Responsibilities

• Practicing accountability for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialization
• Understanding and advocating EA principles and articulating value proposition of architecture to technology partners
• Managing and continuously improving the design and implementation of architecture processes and artifacts
• Ensuring our firm's projects engage architecture early and often on architecturally significant projects
• Reviewing key design decisions with departmental architecture review boards
• Ensuring decisions around architecture are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed, and communicated. Raises issues to the Principal Architects and Senior Managers as necessary
• Participating and leading reviews of projects that are in flight. Works closely with technical leads of projects contributing solutions to the project’s most challenging problems and able to be hands on as needed
• Ensuring that all individual solution architecture artifacts and changes are documented as per process standards and stored in T. Rowe Price’s EA Library to facilitate compliance, organization, and access
• Coordinating with other enterprise architects as necessary for solution architecture
• Taking control of complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way.
• Balancing tactical vs. strategic trade-offs when making decisions or proposing solutions
• Flexibility in your thinking; you excel at providing solutions when additional information or ideas are presented.
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Dedicated to helping team members/makes suggestions to improve practices
• You are able to work directly with business partners
• Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility
• You can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Engages in identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus eligibility
• A generous retirement plan
• Hybrid work schedule
• Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
• Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days
• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

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