Enterprise Architect (Hybrid) (Information Technology)

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The St Louis Fed is one of 12 Reserve Banks serving all or parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas with branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis. The St. Louis Fed's most critical functions include promoting stable prices and economic growth, fostering a sound financial system, providing payment services to financial institutions, supporting the U.S. Treasury's financial operations, and advancing economic education, community development and fair access to credit. The Bank strives to maintain an engaging and exciting work environment that is both inviting and collegial.

The Enterprise Services team within our Technology division provides strategic technical guidance and establishes enterprise architecture standards and patterns for both the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Treasury systems. Our architects play a crucial leadership role and must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, security, collaboration and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. The Enterprise Architect will serve as a critical technical thought leader, partnering with System, District and Treasury stakeholders to align technology strategies with business objectives and ensure that the organization's architecture supports scalability, reusability, security and innovation. You will define strategic direction of technologies, standards, processes and target state architectures and guide the organization to incorporate architecture design patterns, system best practices and system standards. With a team of other architect, you will leverage your in-depth knowledge of current technology, industry standards and frameworks, security best practices and emerging technologies to accelerate business value, delivery and outcomes. You will report to the Senior Manager of Architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Represent FRB St. Louis in system workgroups and establish mechanisms for effective bidirectional communication flow from these system workgroups to local stakeholders and technical teams. Accountable for facilitation of stakeholder discussions and ensuring that FRB St. Louis perspective is represented at the system level.
• Develop forward-looking technical roadmaps, ensuring required architecture runway, identifying cross-team technical challenges, alignment to business product roadmaps and ensure technology direction maps to business outcomes. Embrace enterprise mindset of solve once, reuse many and common where possible, unique only where necessary.
• Lead technical discussions, provide architectural guidance and influence technology decisions. Create a community of practices with other enterprise architects, solution architects and application architects. Mentor and drive internal knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Technology Leaders, developers, architects, partners, peers and business users in the design and delivery of technology business solutions. Deliver proof of concepts and support multiple product teams as they move to the cloud and optimize and modernize in the cloud.
• Demonstrate strong decision-making and problem-solving skills to effectively manage conflicting priorities and diverse stakeholder needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while maintaining timelines and team cohesion.
• Ensure the implementation and maintenance of robust security protocols in partnership with Information Security team and security champions.
• Provide data-driven technical leadership using metrics, dashboard and information radiators to make data visible, transparent and solution focused.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution design and large-scale technology implementations in complex, highly regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of modern technology stacks, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), data governance and enterprise software solutions.
• Expertise in architectural frameworks such as TOGAF.
• General understanding of the cyber security threat landscape and controls in a highly regulated GovCloud environment. Thorough understanding of AWS security architecture to enable design of solutions and integrations with least privilege across services, resources and data.
• Extensive, in-depth experience implementing highly complex technology projects in a cross-functional matrix environment with demonstrated ability to drive consensus and deliver results. Examples of leading through influence and successfully resolving conflicting priorities.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including translating technical topics and risks into business teams. Ability to personalize communication to audience from technologists to executive leadership.
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance which requires US Citizenship.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and leading adoption of industry best practices in the areas of application development, solution architecture, agile methodologies, cloud development, cybersecurity. Industry-related certifications in one or more of the above areas are desired.
• US Citizenship required

Total Rewards

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

Salary: $150,000-220,000

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that all brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance:

• Generous paid time off
• Tuition & Training assistance/reimbursement
• 401(k) match & Annuity/Pension fund
• Top-notch health care benefits
• Child and family care leave
• Professional development opportunities
• And more...

At the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, we believe the Federal Reserve most effectively serves the American public by building a more diverse and inclusive economy. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, at all levels of the organization, has been one of our core values for many years and remains strong as we continue enhancing our efforts. Learn more about Bank's culture.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#LI-Hybrid

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Info Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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