What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Architect - Enterprise Solution Architecture position at Edward Jones?
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 10-Nov-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.
¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.
¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Team Overview:
The Solution Architecture department is responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that are in alignment with organization's business objectives and enterprise standards. Solution Architecture bridges strategic vision and technical execution, ensuring solutions support business growth, adaptability and foster innovation. Solution architects collaborate closely with business, delivery, and technology teams to translate requirements into actionable designs overseeing these designs to implementation. This role is specifically on the Wealth-Ops team, which provides architecture support to teams within Investment Management, Client Products & Services, and Operational Enablement.
What You'll Do:
The Solution Architecture department is responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that are in alignment with organization's business objectives and enterprise standards. Solution Architecture bridges strategic vision and technical execution, ensuring solutions support business growth, adaptability and foster innovation. Solution architects collaborate closely with business, delivery, and technology teams to translate requirements into actionable designs overseeing these designs to implementation. This role is specifically on the Wealth-Ops team, which provides architecture support to teams within Investment Management, Client Products & Services, and Operational Enablement.
What You'll Do:
- Design and oversee the architecture of software applications.
- Evaluate products needs against existing patterns and systems to determine buy/build/re-use accounting for TCO.
- Drive comprehensive solution architectures including evaluation of current, transitional and future states, data flows, system dependencies and integration designs while ensuring alignment with firm and Architecture strategies and roadmaps.
- Collaborate across architecture teams to ensure key architecture trade-offs and decisions are documented and consensus is achieved
- Help align business processes, goals, and strategies with IT solutions.
- Drive and align portfolio and solution technology roadmaps that supports strategic business goals.
- Promote and reinforce adherence to architectural standards and governance processes.
- Identify and prioritize tech debt and improvements, supporting system health.
- Support development teams in delivery of scalable and secure solutions
- Ensure solution Non-Functional Requirements are documented and re-evaluated as needed.
- Evangelize security patterns and implement security best practices in solution designs.
- Establish reusable scalable solution patterns, best practices, and runbooks.
- Champion Operational Excellence
- Design for production readiness, continuous improvement and tech currency reduction.
- Champion HA, DR & Observability best practices.
- Drive standardization and reusability across solutions.
- Participate in Incident Response and Postmortems; Help solve complex engineering issues.
What Experience You'll Need:
Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
- Minimum 15 years of experience with financial services business and technology.
- Must be able to communicate effectively across multiple audiences, including firm-wide business units, senior leaders, associates, and external vendors.
- Excellent leadership, collaboration, and motivational skills.
- Deep technical architecture expertise with broad domain knowledge across architecture disciplines.
- Experience in domain modelling, system design and cloud architectures with a preference for hands-on MS Azure Cloud experience
- Practical experience in designing and building Microservices & REST API's.
- Experience with distributed caching, event-driven and streaming frameworks with a preference for hands-on Kafka background
- Experienced in both relational and non-relational data stores
Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
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Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act. Edward Jones is prohibited from hiring individuals with certain specified criminal history as set forth in Section 3(a)(39) and 15(b)(4) and Rule 17a-3(a)(12) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and conducts background reviews consistent with FINRA Rule 3110(e). A copy of a notice regarding the provisions of the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is available at: dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-Eng-Final-8.30.2024.pdf.
