Senior Enterprise Architect - Application and Data Architecture

Edward Jones; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Volunteering & community service

Job summary

Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect – Enterprise Architecture to shape enterprise strategy across application and data architectures. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and architecture teams to define target-state architectures, standards, and roadmaps that guide scalable, secure, and client-focused solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture governance, modernization, and cross-domain alignment, turning business strategy into cohesive technology direction

Qualifications

• Over 15 years in Application/Data/Enterprise or related architecture leadership roles.
• Ability to translate business strategy into architecture roadmaps and target states.
• Experience developing multi-year transformation roadmaps and governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, reference architectures, and patterns across the enterprise.
• Evolve architecture standards and guidance to simplify adoption by teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and accelerate modernization.
• Define and measure architecture quality indicators and outcomes.
• Evolve the architecture operating model, maturity, tooling, and ways of working.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and plan skills to support future priorities.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Architecture Governance

TOGAF

Job description

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 03-Nov-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

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Team Overview

Edward Jones is seeking a Senior Technical Architect – Enterprise Architecture to help shape enterprise strategy across the application and data architecture layers. This role partners with business, product, engineering, and architecture teams to define target‑state architectures, standards, and roadmaps that improve how applications and data capabilities evolve across the enterprise.

The role focuses on application architecture, data architecture, integration, modernization, simplification, and cross‑domain alignment, translating business strategy into cohesive application and data direction.

The team drives technology consistency, modernization, governance, and strategic alignment across the enterprise while enabling scalable, secure, and client‑focused solutions.

Position Summary

The Senior Technical Architect provides strategic technology leadership by defining enterprise architecture standards, guiding major technology decisions, and developing roadmaps that align business priorities with technology investments. This role ensures solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise architecture principles and governance.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, reference architectures, architecture patterns, and methods that enable consistent solution design and delivery across the enterprise.
• Build, maintain, and evolve enterprise architecture standards and guidance that simplify adoption and implementation by architecture, engineering, and delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve architectural consistency, and accelerate modernization across the application and data landscape.
• Define, measure, and continuously improve architecture quality indicators and enterprise architecture value metrics to demonstrate business and technology outcomes.
• Establish and mature the enterprise architecture discipline through defined practices, governance models, assessment frameworks, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Evaluate emerging technology, architecture, and business capability needs and develop plans to equip the architecture organization with the skills required to support future enterprise priorities.
• Evolve the enterprise architecture operating model, including maturity assessments, continuous improvement practices, tooling, and ways of working that increase organizational effectiveness.

What Experience You’ll Need

• 15+ years of experience in Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or related architecture leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in application architecture, data architecture, or both, with demonstrated ability to apply domain expertise to broader enterprise strategies, target states, and roadmaps.
• Experience developing target‑state application and/or data architectures and multi‑year transformation roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to connect business strategy and capabilities to application and data architecture decisions.
• Experience influencing architecture decisions that cross products, platforms, portfolios, and business domains.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, application modernization, data strategy, integration, and enterprise planning.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience working across both application and data architecture.
• Experience with business capability modeling, application portfolio planning, and data capability planning.
• Experience defining enterprise‑level application and data target states.
• Experience leading application modernization, simplification, rationalization, or data transformation initiatives.
• Experience translating deep domain architecture expertise into cross‑enterprise strategy and transformation roadmaps.
• Financial services industry experience.
• TOGAF or relevant architecture certification.
• Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**

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Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax‑advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.