Senior Technical Architect- Technology Architecture

Edward Jones

10d

About The Position

The Technology Architecture team within Enterprise Architecture is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support the firm's strategic infrastructure resiliency objectives. The team provides strategic direction and governance for foundational technology capabilities, including infrastructure, cloud, platforms, data technologies, and cross-domain architecture patterns. It aligns technology investments, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps with the firm's strategic goals while balancing agility, resiliency, security, risk management, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability. The role will strengthen the resiliency discipline within Technology Architecture and serve as a strategic partner across Enterprise Architecture, Digital Resiliency, Business Resiliency, Data Platform, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Solution Architecture. The architect will help shape the firm's resilient architecture strategy by defining principles, patterns, recovery approaches, and target-state roadmaps that improve the firm's ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to operational disruptions, cyber incidents, technology failures, and changing business and regulatory expectations. The work supports resilient critical business services across the firm.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10 or more years of experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, platform architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
Experience developing technology strategies and target-state architectures within large, complex organizations.
Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud platforms, infrastructure services, platform engineering practices, and modern hosting strategies.
Experience designing cyber resiliency, disaster recovery, availability, and business continuity capabilities for critical technology services.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior technology leaders and drive alignment across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.
Experience facilitating architecture governance, technology standards development, and strategic decision-making processes.
Excellent communication, presentation, and consultation skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to assess technology tradeoffs, risks, and strategic implications.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting large-scale transformation or infrastructure modernization programs.
Knowledge of resiliency frameworks, critical business service resiliency, and operational resilience practices.
Experience with platform engineering, infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud operating models.
Familiarity with architecture methodologies and frameworks such as TOGAF, capability modeling, or strategic roadmapping.
Experience aligning technology strategy across infrastructure, application, data, and security architecture disciplines.
Industry certifications in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, resiliency, or related technology domains.
Proven success operating in highly regulated, complex environments.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve resiliency architecture strategies and patterns spanning infrastructure, platform, cloud, application, and data disciplines.
Partner with Digital Resiliency and Business Resiliency teams to translate resiliency objectives, recovery requirements, and business continuity strategies into architectural direction and technology roadmaps.
Advise architecture, platform engineering, and technology leadership teams on resiliency-related architectural decisions, technology investments, and modernization initiatives.
Establish architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures that improve operational resilience, recoverability, availability, and cyber resilience.
Drive alignment across Technology Architecture, Digital Resiliency, Business Resiliency, Data Platform, Cybersecurity, and Solution Architecture teams so resiliency is considered in technology strategy and solution design.
Evaluate emerging technologies, industry frameworks, and resiliency practices to strengthen the firm's ability to prevent, withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
Lead strategic assessments of technology capabilities to identify resiliency gaps, dependencies, concentration risks, and opportunities for architectural improvement.
Influence technology investment decisions by balancing resiliency objectives, operational considerations, technology risk, complexity, and business value.
Mature the firm's resiliency architecture strategy across infrastructure, cloud, platform, and data ecosystems.
Strengthen alignment between Enterprise Architecture, Digital Resiliency, and Business Resiliency organizations.
Influence architectural direction that enables resilient critical business services and operational continuity.
Advance data resiliency, cyber recovery, and technology recovery capabilities across the firm.
Drive long-term resiliency roadmaps aligned with business, regulatory, and operational resilience objectives.

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 at no cost to associates
Basic life and basic AD&D coverage at no cost to associates
401(k) retirement plan
Health savings account
Flexible spending account
Ten paid holidays
15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year
Sick time and personal days
Paid day for volunteerism
Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing
Employee Assistance Program