Federal Reserve Bank

Research Platform Architect

Federal Reserve Bank$140K — $170K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in enterprise/platform architecture and solution design in complex regulated environments.
  • Experience with public-facing applications emphasizing scalability and performance.
  • Exceptional communication skills for audience-specific technical discussions.
  • Proven experience in driving consensus on complex technology projects.
  • Ability to align technical and business strategies in the Research domain.
  • Experience defining architecture roadmaps and leading modernization initiatives.
  • Strong expertise with API-driven systems and cloud platforms like AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Define the architectural strategy for the economic research platform.
  • Align system architecture with evolving research and data access needs.
  • Provide technical leadership across various architect roles.
  • Establish governance practices and architecture principles for teams.
  • Lead architecture reviews for major tech initiatives.
  • Design systems for high traffic during economic events.
  • Collaborate on platform architecture with engineering and product teams.

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off.
  • Tuition & training assistance/reimbursement.
  • 401(k) match & annuity/pension fund.
  • Top-notch health care benefits.
  • Child and family care leave.
  • Professional development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Key Responsibilities
  • Define the long-term architectural strategy for the economic research platform ecosystem.
  • Align architecture with evolving research needs, data growth, and public data access.
  • Provide technical leadership across the Research Domain Architect, and Application Architect roles.
  • Establish architecture principles, design standards, and governance practices across engineering teams.
  • Lead architecture reviews for major technology initiatives.
  • Lead architecture for high-availability public APIs and data services used globally by developers and institutions.
  • Collaborate with data architecture to support large-scale time-series datasets and historical revisions.
  • Design systems capable of handling traffic spikes during major economic events and releases.
  • Partner with engineering leaders, and product teams to translate research needs into scalable platform architecture.
  • Mentor engineers on modern platform architecture practices.


Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise / platform architecture, solution design and large-scale technology implementations in complex, highly regulated environments. Deep understanding of modern technology stacks, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and enterprise software solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, architecting and supporting external / public-facing applications with a strong emphasis on scalability, security, availability and performance for external customer-facing platforms. Demonstrated knowledge of and leading adoption of industry best practices in the areas of application development, solution architecture, agile methodologies, cloud development, cybersecurity and cloud data architecture. Industry-related certifications in one or more of the above areas are desired.
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including translating technical topics and risks into business teams. Ability to personalize communication to audience from technologists to executive leadership.
  • Extensive, in-depth experience implementing highly complex technology projects in a cross-functional matrix environment with demonstrated ability to drive consensus and deliver results. Examples of leading through influence and successfully resolving conflicting priorities are required.
  • Deep alignment into the Research business domain which is required to translate business strategy into technical strategy, architecture, value streams and operational needs into a scalable platform that accelerates delivery, maximizes ROI and ensures long-term relevance of solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to define long-term architecture roadmaps and lead complex modernization initiatives.
  • Strong experience with API-driven systems and high-traffic public platforms.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience designing and operating systems on AWS or similar cloud platforms such as Azure.
  • Experience working with modern technology stacks including PHP, Go, Angular, Terraform and PostgreSQL.
  • Candidates with less experience may be considered at a lower job grade or salary.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience architecting large public data platforms or analytics platforms.
  • Experience with time-series data systems or analytical datasets.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems toward service-oriented or modular architectures.
  • Experience designing developer ecosystems and public API platforms.
  • Familiarity with distributed data processing systems and data pipelines.


Total Rewards

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth-along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

Salary: $140-170k

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that all brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance:
  • Generous paid time off
  • Tuition & Training assistance/reimbursement
  • 401(k) match & Annuity/Pension fund
  • Top-notch health care benefits
  • Child and family care leave
  • Professional development opportunities
  • And more...


Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift
First (United States of America)

About Federal Reserve Bank

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