Senior Architect

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.
Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Cloud Solutions and Services team has an immediate opening for a Sr Architect reporting to the Vice President of Cloud and Solutions Services.

We are looking for an accomplished architect to join the product team responsible for driving strategies to help our customers onboard and adopt various solutions and services, including AWS and Azure cloud platforms. In this role, you will help design and implement solutions to enhance our product offerings with focus on new capabilities, driving system efficiencies, and improving security and scalability. You will collaborate across infrastructure and application teams to ensure the successful deployment and management of new releases, applying best practices and industry standards. You will work with leadership to prioritize, initiate and implement technology efforts aimed at addressing these opportunities. This role will also lead and support integration activities by providing subject matter expertise in addition to the definition of architectural and technical patterns. If you have a background in architecture, experience with cloud-native technologies, and enjoy driving change, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact at the Federal Reserve.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate closely with partners and customers across the system to execute on strategic initiatives focused on designing, planning, developing and synchronizing strategic technological directives.
• Ensure required architecture runway, aligning to business product roadmaps, partnering with other architects and system stakeholders
• Support multiple product teams through infrastructure build, solution delivery and operations, leading troubleshoot of technical issues, as needed
• Develop and mature frameworks and standards to improve customer experience, reduce infrastructure build out time, and increase resiliency.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies, trends, and best practices and use this to determine future state and define capability roadmap.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6 to 9+ years of experience architecting or engineering AWS and Azure cloud solutions at an enterprise level
• 2+ years of experience defining / developing security and governance controls to meet enterprise standards.
• Experience developing and driving infrastructure architecture for large scale business solutions on AWS and Azure.
• Actively contributes to a culture of knowledge sharing through informal (i.e. mentoring less experienced team members) and formal channels (i.e. presentations, communities of practice, etc.)
• Ensures technical team is practicing and adopting best practices around software engineering, infrastructure engineering and release and change processes.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience.
• Decision making experience using a data-focused approach in day-to-day leadership situations and strategic tradeoff analyses

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee resource networks
• Paid volunteer leave
• Flexible work options
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify [email protected].
• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).
• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.
• The hiring range is $111,800 – $153,780 annually.
• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by October 7th, 2024.

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

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