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Position Schedule: Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 14-Jul-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

The Non-Human Identity (NHI) Solution Architect is responsible for the design, architecture, and strategic direction of the firm’s Non-Human Identity capabilities and services. This role serves as the technical authority for securing, governing, and managing non-human identities across the enterprise, including service accounts, application identities, APIs, machine identities, bots, certificates, secrets, cloud workloads, and other automated digital entities.

The Solution Architect will partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and Product teams to create scalable and secure solutions that support business growth while reducing operational and security risk. This role combines deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to establish enterprise standards, modernize identity security practices, and drive adoption of Non-Human Identity governance across the organization.

The successful candidate will possess strong architecture and design experience, a deep understanding of identity security principles, and a proven ability to influence technology strategy within large, complex environments.

• Define and evolve the enterprise architecture, strategy, standards, and roadmap for Non-Human Identity capabilities, aligning solutions with business, technology, and cybersecurity objectives.
• Design secure, scalable, and automated solutions for managing service accounts, machine identities, secrets, certificates, APIs, and cloud-native workloads.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance for enterprise projects involving authentication, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, workload security, and secrets management.
• Establish governance frameworks, lifecycle controls, and operational standards that ensure non-human identities are securely created, monitored, maintained, and decommissioned.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application Development, Risk, and Security teams to integrate identity services into enterprise platforms and delivery pipelines.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with non-human identities while supporting audit, compliance, threat modeling, and security assessment activities.
• Develop architecture artifacts, implementation guidance, metrics, and reporting that promote consistency, automation, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and technical leader, influencing enterprise standards, mentoring teams, and presenting architectural recommendations to senior leadership.

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.

Hiring Minimum: $120000

Hiring Maximum: $204300

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in technology, cybersecurity, identity security, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Minimum 3 years of experience designing enterprise-scale security or identity-related solutions.
• Strong understanding of Non-Human Identity concepts, including service accounts, machine identities, APIs, bots, certificates, secrets, and workload authentication.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture standards, roadmaps, and target-state designs.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, application architectures, automation frameworks, and modern authentication technologies.
• Experience with risk management, security controls, audit requirements, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience leading enterprise Non-Human Identity transformation initiatives.
• Experience with machine identity management, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, workload identity security, and privileged access controls.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust principles and modern cybersecurity architectures.
• Financial Services or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience operating within Agile and product-centric delivery models.
• 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.