Senior Architect - Microsoft Ecosystem & Modern Workplace

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.

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.

This role requires a versatile technologist with a comprehensive command of the Microsoft ecosystem across security, low-code development, artificial intelligence, data, collaboration, and endpoint management. The position is not a single-platform specialization; it demands an architect capable of treating the enterprise Microsoft investment as one integrated platform rather than a collection of discrete tools.

• The successful candidate will possess broad, hands-on expertise with demonstrated depth in several priority domains:
  Microsoft, Power Platform (Power Apps), Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, collaboration technologies, Security, and modern workplace platforms. The architect will define strategy, establish standards, and direct teams toward secure, scalable, and modern solutions.
• Architecture, Strategy & Leadership:
  Develop reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps that treat Microsoft as one connected platform.
• Lead technology assessments, proofs-of-concept, and vendor evaluations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders and mentor engineers and architects.
• Present strategy and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Power Platform & Low-Code Development:
  Direct the strategy, governance, and adoption of the Power Platform, with emphasis on Power Apps and process automation (Power Automate).
• Establish standards, guardrails, and an operating model that enables safe business-led development without sprawl or risk.
• Identify opportunities for low-code solutions to replace manual processes or costly custom development.
• Microsoft Copilot & AI:
  Define and lead the Copilot adoption strategy across Microsoft 365 and the broader platform.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities, identify business use cases, and govern responsible rollout.
• Partner with security and governance functions to manage data access, risk, and compliance for AI tools.
• Microsoft Fabric & Data:
  Establish the enterprise approach to Microsoft Fabric, including data integration, analytics, and reporting.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to align Fabric capabilities with the broader Microsoft platform strategy.
• Mature this capability over time as adoption expands.
• Microsoft Security & Compliance:
  Apply a security-conscientious lens across the Microsoft stack, with working knowledge of Microsoft Defender, Entra , and Purview.
• Partner with the cybersecurity function to embed security and data protection into platform decisions and support Zero Trust principles, including secure collaboration and endpoint solutions.
• Support compliance and information protection initiatives, leveraging Microsoft Purview…