Research Platform Architect

Federal Reserve Board

Research Platform Architect responsible for the architecture of global economic research platforms. Leading technology initiatives to ensure scalable, reliable, and innovative data access solutions.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeSt. Louis • California, Illinois, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoPHPPostgresTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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...

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architecturesolution designcloud developmentapplication developmentcybersecuritycloud data architectureAPI-driven systemsscalabilityperformancehigh-traffic platforms

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaboration skillsmentoringinfluencingconflict resolutiontranslating technical topicsdriving consensuspersonalized communicationleadershipcross-functional collaboration