Senior Director-Principal Architect
Company: Ameriprise
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: June 25, 2025
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Job Description:
Provide overall direction, guidance and definition to the
organizational architecture to effectively support the corporate
business strategy. Interact across multiple business areas,
proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects to
ensure the success of enterprise-level rollouts. Determine and
develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business
reviews, document current systems and develop recommendations. Key
Responsibilities • Lead complex projects and ensure the success of
enterprise-level application rollouts. • Determine and develop
architectural approaches and solutions by conducting business
reviews, documenting current systems, and developing
recommendations at the capability level. • Proactively assist in
defining future projects. Bring enterprise perspective to all
initiatives. Ensure projects comply with enterprise architecture. •
Lead technology direction within and across infrastructure teams.
Participate in determination of domain standards, project
requirements, and migration plans for infrastructure or business
portfolios. • Develop and ensure compliance with architectural
principles and standards for various systems and components.
Develop/maintain key strategy artifacts. • Evaluate current
architecture and influence future strategy and road maps with
proactive feedback. • Lead analysis of the current Technology
environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions
for improvement. • Participate in detailed analysis to align
requirements and equipment configurations with defined system
specifications. • Translate customer requirements to process and
data requirements. • Document and support applications and tools
consistent with established specifications and business
requirements. Document all architecture design and analysis work. •
Research, design, and develop product hardware and software
interfaces. Incorporate architectural principles into enterprise
architectural design, including opportunities for common services
and service reuse. • Consult with capability development teams to
fit/modify architecture to business objectives. • Research,
introduce, and transition new technology into the organization.
Keep abreast of Technology advances and issues across all
enterprise domains. Research, test, and recommend tools and
practices for potential implementation. • Provide technical
assistance to implementation teams. Apply best practices using
innovative ideas to increase awareness and effectiveness of
enterprise architecture. • Articulate, advocate, and support the
architecture perspective in strategy and delivery discussions with
technology and business unit leaders. Publish accurate monthly
dashboards. • Encourage, foster, and participate in
cross-portfolio/capability dialogue. Collaborate with business
leaders to obtain strategic requirements, colleagues to lead
project delivery, vendor partners on product selections, and
research partners to understand the industry technology
architecture view. Required Qualifications • Bachelors degree or
equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical
field; or related work experience. • 10 years of relevant
experience required. • Work experience in multiple technology areas
and 3-4 years of relevant enterprise architecture experience in one
or more specialty areas. • Prior experience in design, development,
and implementation of application, data pipeline development at an
enterprise level. • In-depth knowledge of application, information,
infrastructure, middleware, and security architectures. •
Experience as a senior-level Data, Solutions, or Technology
Architect working on significant enterprise change initiatives. •
Experience with various AWS Cloud native services and other cloud
data platforms such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Glue, Amazon
SageMaker and SageMaker Studio, Amazon Athena, Snowflake, and Power
BI • Experience with modern data architecture and building
large-scale data platforms in the cloud such as lake house design •
Experience with AI/ML model deployment. • Familiarity with Azure is
a plus. Preferred Qualifications • Demonstrated experience
presenting architecture concepts and goals to technology leaders
and business partners. • Financial Services industry specific
knowledge that includes a working knowledge of industry standards
and architectures.
Keywords: Ameriprise, Greenville , Senior Director-Principal Architect, IT / Software / Systems , Charlotte, South Carolina
