Description
Summary
The Lead Architect plays a crucial role in shaping the technical direction of Stifel's technology products, ensuring that they meet functional and non-functional requirements while adhering to best practices and industry standards. In a Scaled Agile Environment (SAFe), the role of a Lead Architect takes on additional responsibilities and considerations to support the principles of agility and scale.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Provides technical guidance and direction to the architecture team, ensuring that architectural best practices are followed and that technical debt is minimized.
• Creates high-level and detailed system architecture designs that consider scalability, performance, security, and cost.
• Works closely with Technology teams, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders to align architecture decisions with the goals and priorities of the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Identifies and defines architectural epics or features that provide an architectural runway for ARTs.
• Identify and define architectural epics or features that provide an architectural runway for Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and ensure these are prioritized on the backlog.
• Create high-level and detailed system architecture designs, considering scalability, performance, security, and cost.
• Communicates architectural decisions and strategies to stakeholders at all levels of the organization, ensuring alignment and understanding.
• Be a trusted advisor and mentor, guiding colleagues and stakeholders toward enterprise architectural decisions that enhance customer efficiency, reliability, and value.
• Continuously evaluates and improves architectural processes, tools, methodologies, and technologies to enhance the development process's efficiency and effectiveness, including fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Mentors, develops, and leads team members, helping them grow their technical skills and abilities while encouraging and advocating for career advancement.
Qualifications
• Strong knowledge of architectural patterns, design principles, and best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience with cloud-based architectures and technologies.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.
• Ability to lead a team.
Education & Experience
• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Preferred: Advanced degree
• Minimum Required: 10 years of experience in software architecture, focusing on large-scale enterprise and cloud-centric applications.
Certifications:
• Certification in SAFe or other Agile methodologies is preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional designations are highly desirable.
About Stifel
Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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