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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Apply a security-conscious 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 Information Protection and Insider Risk Management.
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory, operational, and security requirements.
• Provide architecture leadership for the collaboration stack — Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and One Drive.
• Advance communication, knowledge sharing, and productivity, with attention to user experience.
• Maintain core productivity and messaging services (including Exchange Online) as a stable foundation, secondary to the scope of this role.
• Provide architecture leadership for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and device platforms, including Microsoft Intune.
• Advance a modern management strategy that improves endpoint security, reliability, and the end-user experience.

• Bachelor's degree (4-year) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; or related work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant work…