Research Platform Architect

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of St.

Louis

The Federal Reserve Bank of St.

Louis is seeking a Research Platform Architect to lead the technical vision and long-term architecture of its global economic research platforms such as FRED and FRASER.

These platforms provide access to hundreds of thousands of economic time-series datasets, historical archives, and research publications used by millions of economists, policymakers, researchers, students, and developers worldwide.

This role will define strategic direction of technologies for the Research platform and ensure standards, processes and target state architectures and guide the organization.

This role will leverage in-depth knowledge of current technology, industry standards and frameworks, security best practices and emerging technologies to accelerate business value, delivery and outcomes.

As Research Platform Architect, you will shape the future architecture of this ecosystem – ensuring the platforms remain scalable, reliable, and innovative as global demand for economic data continues to grow.

This is a rare opportunity to architect platforms that power global economic insight and public data access at massive scale.

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.

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