Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Tech Stack
Central banking infrastructure for monetary policy, financial supervision, and economic data services
The St. Louis Fed operates critical national infrastructure: monetary policy execution, financial institution supervision across eight states, and public APIs serving billions of time-series economic data points. The stack is AWS-native (GovCloud, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS) with Java/Spring Boot and TypeScript backends — a cloud-modernization posture reinforced by active projects decommissioning a legacy monolith into microservices while maintaining FedRAMP High compliance. Senior engineering hiring (4 roles) focused on scalable data architecture and high-availability APIs signals pressure to handle traffic spikes during economic events and global demand on FRED datasets.
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What Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Is Building
◆Challenges
- Designing scalable data platforms
- Managing massive time-series data
- Scaling to meet global demand
- Handling traffic spikes during economic events
- Lack of examiner commission
- Replacing legacy monolith with cloud-native services
- Maintaining fedramp high compliance
- Reducing technical debt through dependency upgrades
- Policy compliance
▲Active Projects
- Consumer compliance examinations
- Modernizing data architecture for fred
- Scalable storage architecture for billions of time-series
- Metadata schema development for dataset discoverability
- High-availability public apis and data services
- Large-scale time-series datasets and historical revisions
- Examination reporting
- Modernization of legacy monolith to cloud-native services
- Design and implement microservices
- Build solutions using aws govcloud services