Principal Architect

About Our 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.

Job Description Provide overall direction, mentorship and definition to the organizational architecture to efficiently support the corporate business strategy. Interact across multiple business areas, proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects to ensure the success of enterprise-level rollouts. Resolve and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems and develop recommendations.

Key Responsibilities Major areas of accountability:

Assessment of our current environment and influence strategic direction

Strategy / Roadmap Development Develop Reference Architectures and Repeatable patterns

Establish and Manage standards

Provide direction to our cloud journey

Lead complex projects and ensure the success of enterprise-level application rollouts. Resolve and develop architectural approaches and solutions by conducting business reviews, detailing current systems, and developing recommendations at the capability level. May or may not leader people.

Proactively assist in defining future projects. Bring enterprise perspective to all initiatives. Ensure projects align with enterprise architecture. Lead technology direction within and across infrastructure teams. Participate in determination of domain standards, project requirements, and migration plans for infrastructure or business portfolios. Develop and ensure compliance with architectural principals and standards for various systems and components. Develop/maintain key strategy artifacts.

Evaluate current architecture and influence strategic direction and road maps with proactive feedback. Lead analysis of the current Technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Participate in detailed analysis to align requirements and equipment configurations with defined system specifications. Translate customer requirements to process and data requirements.

Document and support applications and tools consistent with established specifications and business requirements. Document all architecture design and analysis work. Research, craft and develop product hardware and software interfaces. Incorporate architectural principles into enterprise architectural design, including opportunities for common services and service reuse. Consult with capability development teams to fit/modify architecture to business objectives.

Research, introduce and transition new technology into the organization. Stay on top of Technology advances and issues across all enterprise domains. Research, test and recommend tools and practices for potential implementation. Provide technical assistance to implementation teams. Apply standard methodologies using innovative ideas to increase awareness and efficiency of enterprise architecture.

Eloquent, advocate and support the architecture perspective in strategy and delivery discussions with technology and business unit leaders. Publish accurate monthly dashboards. Encourage, develop and participate in cross-portfolio/capability dialogue. Collaborate with business leaders to acquire strategic requirements, colleagues to lead project delivery, vendor partners on product selections and research partners to understand the industry technology architecture view.

Required Qualifications Bachelors degree (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or related work experience.
7-10+ years of relevant work experience required.

Work experience in multiple technology areas and 2-3 years of relevant enterprise architecture experience in one or more specialty areas.

Prior experience in design, development and implementation of application development solutions at an enterprise  knowledge of application, information, infrastructure, network and security architectures.

Demonstrable Understanding of AWS, Azure Cloud, Connectivity and Network Security services

Provide Architecture direction to our Cloud Journey - AWS and Azure Strong Influencer Leader With Vision in this domain area Understanding of Application Architecture – On-prem, Cloud and hybrid

Able to collaborate with various cross commits - application, network, security teams at multiple levels to get results

Ability to drive architectural…