Edward Jones Hiring for Senior Technical Architect-Infrastructure & Cloud at St Louis, MO $ $ Full Time

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

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

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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