In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
Edward Jones is seeking a Sr. Technical Architect to help lead our infrastructure and hybrid cloud strategy. The combination of our 16,000 branches, multiple data centers and clouds, and 1,000’s of users is creating new demand on our infrastructure which is the foundation for everything we do. This role will be key to our future success, providing leadership with guidance to make critical infrastructure decisions.
As a member of the Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy team, you will contribute across multiple areas to architect modern, innovative, robust, secure, and easy to operationalize solutions to support the organization. The incumbent will also observe and solicit feedback from engineering and operations teams to understand current needs and challenges that must be addressed in our future state designs.
The Sr. Technical Architect must be able to drive architectural best practices, provide strategic guidance and help to improve architecture discipline across multiple technology domains. Additionally, this candidate must demonstrate the ability to effectively present recommendations and decisions with pertinent data and research, including the evaluation and sourcing of new technologies.
The ideal candidate will pose strong technical leadership skills, is able to influence decisions, and has excellent soft skills to build relationship. You will work with leadership and technical SMEs across several foundational pillars including infrastructure, cloud, security, platforms, observability, and support. In addition, you will work with other cross-functional teams to ensure we align with broader enterprise strategies, such as Development, Solution Architecture, and Enterprise Architecture.
Team Objectives:
Establish a Hybrid Cloud Strategy:
Create a multi-year plan that ensures data center, private and public cloud capabilities cost-effectively align to long-term, dynamic business demands.
Advance the Firm’s priority and innovative initiatives:
Provide thought leadership and advisory to advance transformative business initiatives. Assist technical and non-technical decision makers by defining non-functional requirements to ensure desired outcomes and user experiences are achieved
Strengthen the Firm’s Architecture Discipline:
Ensure systems meet long term needs by following Architecture Guiding Principles. Foster a culture of transparency and data driven discussions within Architecture Working Groups and creating Architecture Decision Records.
Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
15+ years of technology experience
5+ years of architecture experience
Expert in multiple technology domains
Enterprise-wide Architectural experience, participating in end-to-end solution design
Understanding of Azure Cloud framework, including network and foundational components
Deep understanding of network, compute, storage
Deep understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Understanding of K8’s functionality
Understanding of automation and self-service
Strong technical leadership and collaboration skills
Strong documentation skills
Strong mentoring skills, able to educate and upskill others
Understanding of guiding principles, architectural patterns, and roadmaps
Comfortable presenting ideas to technical, non-technical, and leadership audiences
Maintains awareness and knowledge around emerging technologies and industry trends
Conceptual understanding of business, security and data architectures
Understands Financial impact of decisions and able to articulate cost/benefit analysis
Ability to influence all levels in a matrixed organization
Embraces change and helps others adapt
Communication:
Must be vocal and highly collaborative
Able to articulate complex content in a non-complex way
Excellent interpersonal skills, seen as credible and trustworthy
Effective communicator, able to interact with all levels of technology and business partners
Fosters open communication by actively listening to others
Presents ideas, thoughts, arguments, and information persuasively
Actively builds and maintains productive relationships and networks of internal/external contacts
Able to perceive the political context of a situation
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
Salary: $136571 – $232541
Category: Headquarters
br{display:none;}.css-58vpdc ul > li{margin-left:0;}.css-58vpdc li{padding:0;}]]> This position is for an entry-level professional individual contributor in General Accounting, who works under...
Apply For This Jobbr{display:none;}.css-58vpdc ul > li{margin-left:0;}.css-58vpdc li{padding:0;}]]> Location New York, New York Shift: Day (United States of America) Description: Feel the Pride...
Apply For This JobJob Description KUSA 9NEWS, TEGNA’s NBC affiliate in Denver, CO is hiring an experienced Account Executive! We are committed to...
Apply For This JobStaff Accountant II – $75,000/year Our client is looking for an efficient Staff Accountant Level ll to join their team...
Apply For This Job(Previous Windows & Door Sales Experience Required0Bell Brothers is Northern California’s Leading HVAC, Plumbing and Window company. We have a...
Apply For This JobJob Description Company Description Take a seat on the Clearent by Xplor rocket ship and join us as an Outside...
Apply For This Job