Senior Architect

We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Develop and manage road maps and technical designs, govern implementations and ensure ongoing application health by applying a broad understanding of all areas of architectural domains (data, infrastructure, applications and security). Expertise will be applied to highly complex and/or broad scale projects in a general area or focused in a specific technical area (e.g. Data, Solutions or Technology Architecture). Translate business needs into technical solutions by planning, developing and refining to-be architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Main Areas:

- Architecture and Governance of Serverless Computing, Container Orchestration and App/Web Servers

- Infrastructure Architecture for Public Cloud and Traditional Data Centers

- DevSecOps practices and a firm understanding of development processes

- Resilience, Recovery, Observability and Security of the above areas

- Strategy/Road Map Development

- Design of Repeatable Patterns

- Risk Assessment

- Decision Facilitation

- Developing and Managing Architecture Standards

• Develop current to future state architecture road maps. Align and promote enterprise technology (data, infrastructure, applications and security) principles and strategy. Contribute to and author application and capability strategies. Establish, maintain and apply architecture standards, disciplines and principles. May or may not lead people.

• Use appropriate design techniques and methodologies to translate project requirements into detailed designs, consistent with platform strategy and road map. Design external system interface architecture that includes appropriate application of techniques and standards. Determine integrated hardware and software architecture solutions that meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability, security and business/functional requirements.

• Create effective and efficient control patterns, conduct risk evaluations, and enforce policies and standards to enable the enterprise to conduct business at an appropriate level of risk. Research and recommend technology to improve current systems. Ensure capabilities are reviewed and compliant with appropriate levels of risk respective to hardware/software currency, performance/availability, security and information/transaction integrity and drive the awareness of required improvements.

• Maintain deep expertise in architectural modeling, frameworks, emerging technologies, and best practices. Mentor and develop less experienced technical staff. Provide technical leadership in both business-as-usual and crisis conditions. Recommend new procedures and processes to drive desired results on diverse projects. Perform industry research with external parties and maintain networks amongst peers.

• Develop and communicate governance parameters that take into account stakeholders interests and processes with measurable results. Partner with other architects to ensure alignment and integration across portfolio boundaries and promote an enterprise focus on applications management. Develop and build strong relationships within and across the lines of business and use effective communication skills to influence and accomplish strategic application architecture objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or related work experience.

• 5-7+ years of relevent work experience required.

• Deep experience in serverless computing and PaaS products, container orchestration products such as Kubernetes and associated technologies, application and web servers such as Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP and Microsoft IIS.

• Deep experience in public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP

• Broad experience across architecture practices (data, infrastructure, applications and security) with depth of experience in at least one area.

• Knowledge of Enterprise-wide architecture and ability to see the big picture and how it affects current and future technologies.

• Internal/External consulting experience that spans organizational boundaries and includes influencing technology and business leaders.

• Depth of experience in the architecture, design, implementation and support of complex enterprise solutions.

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and process improvements.

• Demonstrated capability in implementing AI and ML technologies.

• Familiarity with modern data platforms and toolsets, for example Snowflake.

• Demonstrates thought leadership, strategic thinking with a comprehensive perspective on how current actions influence both present outcomes and future developments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services industry specific knowledge that includes working knowledge of industry data standards and architectures.

• AWS integration solutions such as Batch, Glue, Data Pipeline, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, etc.

• Understand of Mainframe/COBOL systems.

Visa Sponsorship

Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

In-Office Collaboration

We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders — clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least four (4) days per week, with flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week. Some roles may require additional in-office time or different in-office expectations, and specific requirements will be discussed during the hiring process.