Department Leader - Architecture Governance

Opportunity Overview

The Department Leader for Enterprise Architecture Standards, Governance & Tooling leads a team responsible for establishing architecture practices, standards, patterns, governance processes, and tools that enable consistent, scalable, and business-aligned technology decisions across the firm. This leader will define and operate the enterprise architecture governance model, establish reusable standards and reference architecture across application, data, infrastructure, integration, and platform domains, and ensure architecture guidance is integrated into strategic planning, product delivery, and technology investment decisions. The role requires strong partnership across business, product, engineering, delivery, security, risk, and vendor teams to improve decision quality, reduce fragmentation, and accelerate adoption of enterprise architecture practices.

What You'll Do:

• Lead a department of architects, team leaders, and contractors responsible for enterprise architecture standards, patterns, governance, tooling, and enablement.
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and decision frameworks that guide solution design across portfolios.
• Operate architecture governance by setting clear decision criteria, facilitating design reviews, managing exceptions, and driving resolution of cross-domain architecture risks and trade-offs.
• Evaluate major solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise guardrails, delivery feasibility, operational readiness, security, resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with peers to embed architecture expectations early and align on dependencies, constraints, and enterprise impacts.
• Drive continuous improvement of architecture governance processes, standards management, tooling, metrics, and adoption.
• Build and develop architecture talent, including team leaders and successors for key roles, while fostering an accountable and collaborative team culture.

Position Schedule

Full-Time

EEO Statement

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Company Description

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Position Requirements

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent related work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in information systems, technology, architecture, or related disciplines.
• At least 3 years of people leadership, team leadership, or equivalent leadership responsibility preferred.
• Experience leading architecture governance, enterprise standards, technology patterns, architecture tooling, or cross-domain architecture practices.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technologies, infrastructure dependencies, integration patterns, data architecture, application architecture, and delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with SDLC and PDLC practices, change management, quality assurance, architecture review processes, and technology risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into architecture direction, roadmaps, standards, and measurable adoption outcomes.
• Strong decision-making skills, including the ability to resolve complex escalations and trade-offs across teams and solutions.
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and develop teams across a matrixed organization.
• Process-oriented mindset with the ability to establish plans, define metrics, monitor progress, and drive continuous improvement.

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.

Salary Information

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.