Senior Architect I - Remote

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***
This role will help develop technology strategies, reference architectures, solutions, best practices, and guidance across the IT development organization while addressing total cost of ownership, stability, performance, security, and efficiency. The Senior Architect will also evaluate emerging technologies, including Generative AI and advanced analytics, and help development teams quickly prove technical concepts using a variety of tools, methods, and frameworks.
Define and drive technology strategy for digital experiences across customer and employee touchpoints.
Design architectures for web portals, mobile applications, and other digital touchpoints.
Integrate financial data sources and APIs to support unified dashboards and digital experiences.
Use data analytics, research, personas, journey maps, and design thinking practices to support personalized, intuitive, accessible, and value-driven experiences.
Influence and guide teams responsible for digital experiences to ensure alignment with technology strategy.
Create reference architectures, standards, guidance, and best practices, and provide coaching to technology team members.
Apply best practices for microservices, RESTful APIs, application deployment, and workload architectures, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
Design and modernize complex systems into cloud-compatible or cloud-native applications and develop strategies for cloud migration.
Evaluate new applications and technical options, develop business cases, challenge existing approaches, and influence technology direction.
Collaborate with business and technology teams on architecture, design, security, and compliance, including responding to evolving security conditions and recommending security guidelines.
Provide thought leadership, advocacy, and ongoing support for the Enterprise Architecture discipline while considering total cost of ownership, stability, performance, and efficiency.
Technical bachelor's degree, such as computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
Strong understanding of customer journey mapping, design thinking, and omnichannel experience strategy.
Experience working within the Financial Services industry, including Asset Management, Brokerage, Retirement Services, or Banking.
Strong skills integrating financial data and APIs.
Knowledge of data analytics and machine learning to support personalized experiences.
5+ years of experience developing and delivering software systems and 3+ years creating solution architectures and strategies across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.

• 3+ years of development experience with technologies such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JSON/XML web services, RESTful architectures, AWS API Gateway, Lambda, Node.js, and Python.
• Experience with SOA and microservices design, AWS or multi-cloud architectures, advanced programming, modern integration methods, messaging, RESTful architectures, or NoSQL.
• Client-side development experience with web or mobile technologies, including familiarity with React or Angular and their integration with APIs and backend services.
• Experience with modern deployment and DevOps practices, including Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, and source control platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• Working knowledge of architectural cross-cutting concerns and trade-offs, including caching, monitoring, operational support, high availability, and security.
• Experience applying architecture frameworks and development methods, with strong knowledge of data modeling, security patterns, and integration methods.
• Understanding of business process analysis and business process management.
• Additional financial industry expertise, including Investments or Asset Management.
• Expertise in advanced AI techniques, including generative models, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing.
• Ability to balance ethical considerations with business objectives in AI strategy and implementation, including experience with responsible AI policies and best practices.
• Demonstrated continuous learning, self-motivation, ability to thrive in a team environment, and general understanding of how technology affects the financial services business.

This job operates in a professional office environment.
You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment contract.
We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.
***For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption. You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or