Senior Enterprise Architect - Application and Data Architecture

Edward Jones

About The Position

Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to help shape enterprise strategy across application and data architecture. The role partners with business, product, engineering, and architecture teams to define target-state architectures, standards, and roadmaps that guide how applications and data capabilities evolve across the enterprise. Its focus includes application and data architecture, integration, modernization, simplification, and cross-domain alignment, translating business strategy into cohesive architectural direction. The Senior Technical Architect provides strategic technology leadership by defining enterprise architecture standards, guiding major technology decisions, and developing roadmaps that align business priorities with technology investments. The role ensures solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles and governance. The team advances technology consistency, modernization, governance, and strategic alignment while enabling scalable, secure, client-focused solutions. Candidates within commuting distance of the Tempe, Arizona, or St. Louis, Missouri, home offices are expected to work onsite four days per week beginning June 1, 2026. Before that date, they are expected to work onsite three days per week, preferably Tuesday through Thursday.

Requirements

At least 15 years of experience in application architecture, data architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related architecture leadership roles.
Deep expertise in application architecture, data architecture, or both, and the ability to apply domain expertise to enterprise strategies, target states, and roadmaps.
Experience developing target-state application and/or data architectures and multi-year transformation roadmaps.
Ability to connect business strategy and capabilities to application and data architecture decisions.
Experience influencing architecture decisions across products, platforms, portfolios, and business domains.
Strong understanding of architecture governance, application modernization, data strategy, integration, and enterprise planning.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.

Nice To Haves

Experience working across both application and data architecture.
Experience with business capability modeling, application portfolio planning, and data capability planning.
Experience defining enterprise-level application and data target states.
Experience leading application modernization, simplification, rationalization, or data transformation initiatives.
Experience translating deep domain architecture expertise into cross-enterprise strategy and transformation roadmaps.
Financial services industry experience.
TOGAF or relevant architecture certification.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, reference architectures, patterns, and methods to enable consistent solution design and delivery.
Build, maintain, and evolve enterprise architecture standards and guidance that simplify adoption and implementation by architecture, engineering, and delivery teams.
Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve architectural consistency, and accelerate modernization across application and data environments.
Define, measure, and continuously improve architecture quality indicators and enterprise architecture value metrics to demonstrate business and technology outcomes.
Establish and mature the enterprise architecture discipline through practices, governance models, assessment frameworks, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
Evaluate emerging technology, architecture, and business capability needs, and develop plans to equip the architecture organization with skills for future priorities.
Evolve the enterprise architecture operating model, including maturity assessments, continuous improvement practices, tooling, and ways of working.

Benefits

Medical and prescription drug coverage
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Voluntary benefits, including accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness coverage
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Basic life and basic AD&D coverage
401(k) retirement plan
Health savings account
Flexible spending account
Ten paid holidays
15 days of vacation for new associates beginning January 1 of each year
Sick time and personal days
Paid day for volunteerism
Potential bonuses and profit sharing
Employee Assistance Program