Sr Architect

About the Company

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 River Source Insurance and Annuities.

Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

• Architecture and Governance of Serverless Computing, Container Orchestration and App/Web Servers
• Infrastructure Architecture for Public Cloud and Traditional Data Centers
• Dev Sec Ops  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 principles and strategy
• Contribute to and author application and capability strategies
• Establish, maintain and apply architecture standards, disciplines and principles
• Use appropriate design techniques and methodologies to translate project requirements into detailed designs consistent with platform strategy and roadmap
• 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

• Bachelor’s degree (4‑years) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or related work experience
• 5‑7+ years of relevant work experience
• 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…