Senior Architect - Strategy and Governance

Role Summary

In this role, you will perform technical planning, architecture standards definition, manage and continuously improves the design and implementation of architecture artifacts and processes including the governance bodies to support the architecture function within T Rowe Price. This opportunity will also require that you assess the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.

Are you a go-to resource for colleagues with less experience who is also capable of leading projects or work streams? If this describes you, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

• Practicing accountability for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialization
• Understanding and advocating EA principles and articulating value proposition of architecture to technology partners
• Managing and continuously improving the design and implementation of architecture processes and artifacts
• Ensuring our firm's projects engage architecture early and often on architecturally significant projects
• Reviewing key design decisions with departmental architecture review boards
• Ensuring decisions around architecture are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed, and communicated. Raises issues to the Principal Architects and Senior Managers as necessary
• Participating and leading reviews of projects that are in flight. Works closely with technical leads of projects contributing solutions to the project’s most challenging problems and able to be hands on as needed
• Ensuring that all individual solution architecture artifacts and changes are documented as per process standards and stored in T. Rowe Price’s EA Library to facilitate compliance, organization, and access
• Coordinating with other enterprise architects as necessary for solution architecture
• Taking control of complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way.
• Balancing tactical vs. strategic trade-offs when making decisions or proposing solutions
• Flexibility in your thinking; you excel at providing solutions when additional information or ideas are presented.
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Dedicated to helping team members/makes suggestions to improve practices

Business Knowledge:

• You are able to work directly with business partners
• Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility
• You can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Engages in identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions
• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 5+ years of total relevant work experience
• You are up-to-speed with industry trends and technologies with the ability to comprehend their functions and capabilities and how to apply them appropriately.
• Understands common architecture frameworks and models
• Understands, and is able to apply, meta-models, taxonomies, and ontologies

Preferred:

• Prior experience in the asset management industry
   

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).
  

FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home. 

Base Salary Ranges

Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.

Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role.  Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package.  Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At T. Rowe Price, our associates are our greatest asset. We thrive because our company culture is built on inclusion and because we sustain a work environment where associates can bring their best selves to work every day. The backgrounds, talents, and experiences of our global associates allow us to embrace new ideas and perspectives that move our business priorities forward and enable us to deliver strong client outcomes. Here, you can expect equal opportunity and fair and consistent treatment for all. 

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