Data 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. Provi [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 platform [... source excerpt omitted ...] g 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 you