Job Description

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

The Infrastructure, Platforms & Operations portfolio supports the strategic direction and product delivery for System IT infrastructure and operations, as well as the alignment of technology to business strategies. The team serves as the business partner for secure and reliable IT products, services, and operations.

The Department is seeking a Infrastructure Architecture Sr. Manager to join our team. This role reports to Mildre Wampler, Group Vice President of Architecture, and will oversee day‑to‑day responsibilities.

The Architecture Sr. Manager will be accountable for the architecture efforts for one or more groups within Infrastructure Architecture. In this role, you’ll provide leadership in areas such as IT solution architecture, detailed design / infrastructure blueprints and technology delivery.

You will lead a team of direct and matrixed resources. The ideal candidate possesses a proven record of successfully driving change, team leadership and an ability to execute within a federated and highly regulated structure.

Key Activities:

• Engage with key stakeholders and technical peers to understand technology needs, business requirements and the solution process, infrastructure and operational dependencies. Using this information, provide task prioritization and direction to the architecture team in the development and maintenance of infrastructure designs/blueprints that address these needs. Develop and report on metrics to demonstrate success of these designs and value delivery.
• Continual awareness of industry and technology advances including process improvements, security, and service opportunities.
• Drive out low-value, repetitive work by implementing automated solutions.
• Attract and motivate a team of high performing architects while providing them with needed resources, experiences, and coaching. Ensure that team is trained and leveraging best architecture practices.
• Actively drives a culture of innovation and an environment of learning, which fosters engagement, risk taking and innovation; and will uphold these values in all responsibilities.
• Leads staff by setting forth a clear vision of functional goals; holds function(s) accountable for the successful execution of objectives. Collaborates in the development and execution of functional objectives and communicates workforce plans, priorities, and values across audiences.
• Work to effectively integrate architecture practices into product development and agile delivery processes.
• Act as a coach and mentor for technical resources within Infrastructure Architecture. Ensure technical teams are practicing and adopting best practices around architecture, data management, software engineering, and technology adoption. Actively contributes to a culture of knowledge sharing through informal and formal channels.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years experience leading enterprise or equivalent architecture efforts.
• Four(4) to seven (7) years of progressive leadership with the responsibility for leading highly technical staff and cross-functional or matrixed teams within large, complex organizations.
• Strong inspirational leadership and motivational skills with the ability to effectively manage high performing staff and teams.
• Strong networking, relationship building and collaboration skills, including the ability to understand the customer perspective and influence through good listening and observation skills.
• Strong negotiating skills, demonstrated through building consensus across business and IT stakeholders to gain common understanding and ultimately make sound decisions.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, willing to take ownership of issues, and drive for resolution.
• Ability to be flexible, decision oriented, and motivated to support management initiatives.
• Able to effectively navigate and achieve results in a federated, multi-location, multi-divisional organizational structure.
• Experience operating in a Product Management/Agile operating model.

The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance, as defined by the employing Reserve Bank, and will work full-time onsite.

• Eligible Locations for Hire: Boston, MA- New York, NY- Philadelphia, PA- Cleveland, OH- Richmond, VA- Atlanta, GA- Chicago, IL- St. Louis, MO- Minneapolis, MN- Kansas City, MO- Dallas, TX- San Francisco, CA.

Salary: $149,200 - $242,500

*The listed salary is applicable to 5th District. Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location. 

As a condition of employment, all Federal Reserve Bank employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning financial interests – such as stocks or bonds – from banks, savings associations, and systemically important financial institutions or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies or savings and loan holding companies. If you, your spouse or domestic partner, or your minor child own such assets and would be unwilling or unable to divest them if you were to accept a job offer, you should raise this issue with our recruitment team. Applicants should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

This position requires access to confidential supervisory information and/or FOMC information, which is limited to "Protected Individuals" as defined in the U.S. federal immigration law. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents who either are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization or who have applied for naturalization within the requisite timeframe.

For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.

The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.

All applicants must have been a US Citizen or a permanent resident who also resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years. All candidates must undergo an enhanced background check and comply with all applicable information handling rules.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

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)

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