Resiliency Architect: Cloud, Infrastructure & Strategy

Edward Jones; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k retirement plan

Paid holidays

Vacation and paid time off

Job summary

Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to strengthen its resiliency capabilities across infrastructure, cloud, data, and platforms. You will set architecture direction, standards, and reference architectures to improve operational resilience and cyber recovery while guiding investments and modernization efforts.

The role requires a seasoned leader who can translate business continuity needs into actionable roadmaps and influence senior technology leaders across multiple teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, platform architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Experience developing technology strategies and target-state architectures within large, complex organizations.
• Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud platforms, infrastructure services, platform engineering practices, and modern hosting strategies.
• Experience designing cyber resiliency, disaster recovery, availability, and business continuity capabilities for critical technology services.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior technology leaders and drive alignment across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.
• Experience facilitating architecture governance, technology standards development, and strategic decision-making processes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and consultation skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to assess technology tradeoffs, risks, and strategic implications.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve resiliency architecture strategies and patterns spanning infrastructure, platform, cloud, application, and data disciplines.
• Partner with Digital Resiliency and Business Resiliency teams to translate resiliency objectives, recovery requirements, and business continuity strategies into actionable architectural direction and technology roadmaps.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to architecture, platform engineering, and technology leadership teams on resiliency‑related architectural decisions, technology investments, and modernization initiatives.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures that improve operational resilience, recoverability, availability, and cyber resilience.
• Drive alignment across Technology Architecture, Digital Resiliency, Business Resiliency, Data Platform, Cybersecurity, and Solution Architecture teams to ensure resiliency considerations considered throughout technology strategy and solution design.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry frameworks, and resiliency practices to strengthen the firm’s ability to prevent, withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
• Lead strategic assessments of technology capabilities, identifying resiliency gaps, dependencies, concentration risks, and opportunities for architectural improvement.
• Influence technology investment decisions by balancing resiliency objectives, operational considerations, technology risk, complexity, and business value.

Skills

Strong communication

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field

Tools

TOGAF

Cloud platforms (hybrid)

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to strengthen its resiliency capabilities across infrastructure, cloud, data, and platforms. You will set architecture direction, standards, and reference architectures to improve operational resilience and cyber recovery while guiding investments and modernization efforts.

The role requires a seasoned leader who can translate business continuity needs into actionable roadmaps and influence senior technology leaders across multiple teams to