Technical Architect – Privileged Access Mgmt. & Non-Human Identity
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You’ve embraced our purpose of making a meaningful difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. You’ve experienced the collaboration borne of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. You belong at Edward Jones, but you’re ready to stretch your skills and advance your career.
Job Overview
Position Schedule: Full-Time
Hiring Leader: Justin Wallis
Recruiter: Anne Schwabe
HQ Grade: 12
Hiring Minimum: $120000
Hiring Maximum: $204300
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 20-Oct-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Role Overview
The Technical Architect provides architectural leadership for Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Non-Human Identity (NHI) capabilities across the enterprise.
This role translates enterprise architecture direction, business requirements, and security objectives into actionable technical architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns that enable engineering teams to independently implement and operate solutions.
The Technical Architect establishes architectural consistency, guides technology adoption, and provides design assurance to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable.
Working collaboratively with Enterprise Architecture, Business Solution Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams, this role supports the modernization of enterprise identity security capabilities while reducing technical complexity and organizational risk.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Architecture & Standards
- Define and maintain PAM and NHI technical reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns.
- Establish architectural requirements for privileged access, machine identities, workload identities, secrets management, and credential lifecycle management.
- Develop and maintain an architecture pattern catalog aligned with enterprise reference architectures and standards.
- Evaluate competing technologies and architectural approaches, documenting trade-offs involving security, scalability, resiliency, performance, and maintainability.
- Promote standardized, interoperable, and cloud-native identity security architectures.
Solution Design & Architectural Assurance
- Lead technical design reviews to ensure alignment with approved architectures, standards, and security requirements.
- Evaluate alternative technical approaches and document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and constraints.
- Establish clear architectural boundaries, integration patterns, and design requirements for engineering teams.
- Produce architecture deliverables that enable engineering teams to independently implement and maintain solutions.
- Evaluate architectural deviations and recommend appropriate remediation, compensating controls, or risk escalation.
- Provide architectural oversight throughout implementation without assuming engineering delivery ownership.
PAM & NHI Governance Architecture
- Establish technical architecture standards supporting enterprise PAM and NHI governance capabilities.
- Define architectural requirements for identity discovery, inventory, ownership, classification, and lifecycle management.
- Establish technical standards for credential issuance, rotation, expiration, revocation, and decommissioning.
- Define architecture patterns supporting service accounts, application identities, API identities, workload identities, and machine credentials.
- Support adoption of passwordless authentication, ephemeral credentials, workload identity federation, and least-privilege access.
- Ensure governance requirements can be consistently implemented across enterprise platforms.
Security, Compliance & Risk Alignment
- Apply secure-by-design principles to PAM and NHI architectures.
- Ensure technical architecture standards align with enterprise security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry frameworks.
- Define architectural controls supporting least privilege, separation of duties, credential protection, and identity lifecycle management.
- Identify architectural risks, control gaps, and technical dependencies.
- Support audit readiness through documented standards, architectural decisions, and traceable control requirements.
- Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk Management teams to evaluate architectural exceptions and remediation strategies.
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.
Skills/Requirements
Required Experience
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Technical Architect or Solution Architect for enterprise security or identity capabilities.
- Experience defining technical reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns adopted by multiple engineering teams.
- Proven ability to evaluate competing technologies and architectural approaches, document trade-offs, and recommend solutions.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, resolving design conflicts, and establishing technical direction across teams.
- Demonstrated ability to translate architectural designs into actionable engineering requirements and successfully transition implementation ownership.
- Strong understanding of PAM, NHI, authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, and secrets management.
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams without direct implementation authority.
Preferred Experience
- Enterprise PAM and secrets management platforms, such as CyberArk, Delinea, and HashiCorp Vault.
- Identity platforms and protocols, including Entra ID, Ping Identity, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
- Machine and workload identity, including service principals, managed identities, and workload identity federation.
- Cloud and Kubernetes identity security architectures.
- Certificate lifecycle management, PKI, and ephemeral credentials.
- NHI governance, identity discovery, ownership, and lifecycle management.
- Zero Trust architecture and secure-by-design principles.
Additional Experience That Would Set You Apart
- SPIFFE/SPIRE and workload identity federation.
- AI agent identity, delegated authorization, and agentic security.
- Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR).
- Policy-based authorization and policy decision/enforcement frameworks.
- DevSecOps and infrastructure-as-code security integration.
Role Expectations
- This is an architecture-focused role, not an engineering implementation position.
Successful candidates must demonstrate the ability to establish technical direction, develop reusable architecture artifacts, influence design decisions, and enable engineering teams to independently deliver solutions.
Hands-on technical expertise is valued, but the primary responsibility is architectural leadership, technical governance, and design assurance—not direct ownership of engineering implementation.
**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 effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, 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 three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**
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Career Progression
Meet Kristian Frazier
“My journey can be best described as one where I made it a point to be vocal about my aspirations to be a leader at the firm. I was not afraid of step into challenging situations while learning new skills and capabilities. In addition, I have been extremely fortunate to have strong leadership who saw my potential and supported me in my development.”
2019
Senior Department Leader, Firm Program Rotation – Client Care Commitment
2016
Department Leader, New Accounts Processing
2013
Senior Team Leader, New Accounts Oversight
2009
Team Leader, Retirement Services
2006
Senior Retirement & Education Specialist
2005
Personal Banker
Meet Renee Sarakas
“Since the moment I decided I wanted to be a leader, I have had so much support and guidance from my leaders and individuals across the firm. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Leadership Development Associate program and gained a lot of insight from the mentors and peers that I worked with. Additionally, I have always had a leader that has challenged me with opportunities, and I have sought out feedback to help myself grow. I’ve continued to have support as I moved into each next role – and I use my peers and leaders to help me identify ways to keep expanding my contributions and developing within the role that I’m in.”
2019
Department Leader, Financial Solutions Service Division
Mentor, Leadership Development Program
2015
Team Leader, Equity and Fixed Income Service Division
- Mentor, Senior Leader Reverse Mentor
2014
Leadership Development Program
2012
Investment Solutions Specialist
Senior Service Specialist
2009
Service Specialist
Service Division Intern
Meet Lance Taylor
“Since joining Edward Jones I have been afforded consistent and various opportunities to grow and develop my leadership skills and build a strong network. Leaders across the firm are willing to devote time to building a strong core of leadership-focused associates at all levels, both in and outside their area.”
2019
Department Leader, Application Platform Services
- Design and deploy platform solutions
- Leader, Agile Adoption for the Department and Roadmap for Jira Utilization and Encouragement of Agile Ceremonies
- Obtained Scrum Master Certification
Marketplace Pillar Chair, Military/Veterans Business Resource Group
2018
Leader, IS Talent Council Development Sleeve
- Delivered custom-developed content for 160+ member leadership group focused on candor, change management
- Hosted Leadercast seminar and the ACTION technology conference
2016
Team Leader, Web Platforms (2016 – 2019)
- Led 10-person team responsible for enterprise portfolio of application platforms
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Career Progression
Meet Elaine Keating
“You’ll be running your own business with the support of our vast resources. This combination of autonomy and opportunity puts you in the driver’s seat. As you lead your branch, you’ll be presented with opportunities to lead in your region and across the firm. You’ll learn from veterans in the field. As you grow in experience, you can pay it forward by mentoring new financial advisors. Your career path is marked by opportunities to step up, step out of your comfort zone, and take the next step on the path to your future.”
2019
Became a Financial Advisor
2018
Financial Advisor Intern/Trainee
2014
Branch Office Administrator
2013
Branch Office Administrator Trainee
Meet Yong Kim
“You’ll be running your own business with the support of our vast resources. This combination of autonomy and opportunity puts you in the driver’s seat. As you lead your branch, you’ll be presented with opportunities to lead in your region and across the firm. You’ll learn from veterans in the field. As you grow in experience, you can pay it forward by mentoring new financial advisors. Your career path is marked by opportunities to step up, step out of your comfort zone, and take the next step on the path to your future.”
2013
Board Member, Home Suite Hope in Oakville (2013 – 2016)
2011
Returned to the Financial Advisor role in Oakville
Obtained Financial Management Advisor (FMA®) Designation
2010
Elder Board Member, New Hope Fellowship
2007
Leader, Financial Advisor Recruiting
2002
Leader, Financial Advisor Training
2001
Obtained Fellowship of the Canadian Securities Institute Designation (FCSI®)
1999
Became a Limited Partner
Obtained Canadian Investment Manager (CIM®) Designation
- Now known as Chartered Investment Manager (CIM®)
Leader, Financial Advisor Development
1996
Became a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones
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“You’ll be running your own business with the support of our vast resources. This combination of autonomy and opportunity puts you in the driver’s seat. As you lead your branch, you’ll be presented with opportunities to lead in your region and across the firm. You’ll learn from veterans in the field. As you grow in experience, you can pay it forward by mentoring new financial advisors. Your career path is marked by opportunities to step up, step out of your comfort zone, and take the next step on the path to your future.”
2019
Received 15 Year Service Award
2018
Became a Recruiting Leader
2016
Client Service Leader (2016 – 2018)
2015
Leader, Financial Advisors Level New-2 (2015 – 2016)
2014
Became a Financial Advisor
2004
Branch Office Administrator
The skills you’re gaining in your current role can help you succeed in your next.
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2022
Team Leader – Talent Acquisition HR
2020
Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant
2016
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2015
Academic Training FACD
2009
Sr. Development Specialist
2004
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2001
Branch Office Administrator
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“I give most of my time to mentoring others – and have from day one.”
2019
Mentor, Senior Branch Office Administrator Residency Program
2015
Senior Branch Office Administrator Supporting the Senior Regional Leader Branch
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- Member, Advisory Committee for New Regional Leader Branch Team Training (2014-2018)
2009
Senior Branch Office Administrator Supporting the Regional Leader Branch
- Visiting Veteran Branch Office Administrator (2011)
2008
Senior Branch Office Administrator
2007
Branch Office Administrator Supporting the Performance Leader Branch
- Branch Office Administrator Service Advocate for the Region (2007 – 2009)
2005
Branch Office Administrator
2004
On-Call Branch Office Administrator
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“Our client support team professionals come to us with experience in sales, marketing, customer service — even finance. No matter where you’ve been, we’ll provide you the training and opportunities to take you where you want to go. As part of the branch team you will partner with your financial advisor, and be empowered to make decisions. As your confidence grows so too will opportunities to lead in your branch, your region and your community. Helping clients achieve their goals as you achieve yours.”
2020
Senior Branch Office Administrator Supporting a Regional Leader Branch
2019
Regional Recruiting Team Advocate
2015
Senior Branch Office Administrator
2004
Mentor, Branch Office Administrator
Branch Office Administrator Meeting Coordinator
1999
Branch Office Administrator
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“Over the years I’ve been fortunate to work with great leadership who have helped me see my potential. I’ve had the opportunity to be exposed to several areas within the firm, which helped me see how our organization works together – always keeping the client’s needs top of mind. Each role I have experienced helped me grow, develop and ultimately see the big picture. I am thankful to have encountered the many experiences that have helped me grow personally and professionally and have allowed me to spend time with my family. Over the past 20 years it has been exciting to be a part of this organization – to have made a difference in the lives of my clients and most importantly in the lives of my family.”
2021
New-3 Level Leader
2020
Client Solutions Team Member (2020 – 2021)
New – 2 Level Leader
Digital Client Experience Leader (2020 – 2021)
2019
Field Trainer
2018
Go the Extra Mile Coordinator
Alzheimer’s Association Coordinator
2017
Became a Financial Advisor
2016
Mentor Coordinator (2016-2017)
Senior Branch Office Administrator Supporting the 5-10 Level Leader (2016 – 2017)
Senior Branch Office Administrator Supporting the Ted Jones Coaching Program
Committee Member, Edward Jones BOA Strategy Committee
2013
Meeting Coordinator (2013 – 2015)
2010
Senior Branch Office Administrator
2008
Branch Office Administrator Supporting the Regional Leader (2008 – 2010)
2007
Branch Office Administrator
2006
Branch Office Administrator Trainee
2000
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