Cloud Architecture Lead for AI-driven Platform Solutions

Stifel, Incorporated; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stifel, Incorporated is seeking a Technology Architect to provide technical leadership for product development initiatives. You will design cloud-based solutions, guide engineering teams, and translate business needs into actionable technical direction while maintaining enterprise standards.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, reducing complexity, and ensuring DevOps practices and security considerations are integrated into all designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• ],

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technology solutions aligned with cloud and security strategies.
• Guide product engineering teams in architectural decisions within established principles and guardrails.
• Translate business and product needs into clear technical direction, balancing functional and non-functional requirements.
• Mentor engineers and Associate Technology Architects by providing necessary technical context.
• Contribute to architecture governance through reusable patterns and guardrails.
• Participate in backlog refinement and planning to improve story readiness and technical decisions.

Skills

APIs & Integrations

Data persistence

Distributed systems

Security fundamentals

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Resilience

Architectural decisions

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

6+ years software/systems design

2+ years architecture responsibility

AWS experience

Agile/SAFe experience

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tools

Observability tooling

Security frameworks

Job description

Stifel, Incorporated is seeking a Technology Architect to provide technical leadership for product development initiatives. You will design cloud-based solutions, guide engineering teams, and translate business needs into actionable technical direction while maintaining enterprise standards.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, reducing complexity, and ensuring DevOps practices and security considerations are integrated into all designs.