Architecture Strategy & Leadership

• Define and evolve the target-state architecture, technology strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Investment Operations and Distribution platforms, aligned to business priorities, operating models, regulatory requirements, and enterprise standards.
• Lead architecture governance, design reviews, technology assessments, and platform modernization initiatives across the application portfolio.
• Drive platform operating model transformation through capability-based architecture, platform ownership, shared services adoption, and rationalization of redundant technology capabilities.
• Establish architecture principles, integration patterns, reference architectures, and reusable platform capabilities to promote consistency, scalability, and reuse.
• Lead major architecture and platform decisions for strategic business initiatives, ensuring alignment across investment operations, distribution, data, and enterprise technology ecosystems.
• Simplify legacy technology landscapes and accelerate adoption of scalable, resilient, cloud-native architectures.

Investment Operations and Distribution Domain Architecture

• Strong experience supporting Investment operations and distribution domains.
• Investment Operations & Fund Administration: Trade lifecycle management, settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions, exception management, fund accounting, valuations, and custody operations.
• Middle Office & Investment Accounting: IBOR, ABOR, investment accounting, operational data flows, and middle-office transformation initiatives.
• Performance, Analytics & Regulatory Reporting: Performance measurement, attribution, operational analytics, regulatory reporting, and compliance capabilities.
• Alternative Investments Operations: Alternative investment servicing, fund operations, custody, trading, and associated operational workflows.
• Distribution, Sales & Marketing Platforms: Product onboarding, lifecycle management, CRM, sales enablement, distribution operations, marketing platforms, and client engagement capabilities.
• Industry Platforms & Ecosystems: Experience with leading investment management platforms and service providers such as Aladdin, VestmarkOne, State Street, Rimes, SS&C, iCapital, and similar industry solutions.

Engineering Excellence & Hands-On Technical Leadership

• Partner with engineering teams and solution architects to design, modernize, and deliver scalable, resilient, and secure platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, cloud-native platforms, and distributed systems.
• Lead architecture validation activities, including technology assessments, proof-of-concepts, design reviews, and resolution of complex performance, scalability, resiliency, and integration challenges.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, security-by-design, observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SRE teams to improve platform scalability, resilience, and operational effectiveness.
• Assess existing platforms and architectures to identify modernization opportunities, capability gaps, technical debt, and operational risks.

Cloud, Data & AI Architecture

• Lead the design and deployment of applications on GCP and PCF platforms.
• Define cloud-native patterns leveraging containers, automation, observability, and resilient infrastructure.
• Partner with data engineering teams to establish scalable data architectures, pipelines, metadata, and analytics-ready platforms.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and GenAI capabilities to enhance investment workflows, research productivity, knowledge discovery, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise governance, security, and risk management standards.

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with business, product, engineering, architecture, and data leaders to align technology strategy with business objectives.
• Communicate architecture decisions effectively to executive and technical audiences.
• Mentor engineers and architects and help elevate technical capabilities across the organization.
• Influence strategic technology direction through thought leadership and practical delivery experience.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Significant experience within Asset Management Operations, Sales & Marketing technology
• Experience leading architecture of vendor-based platforms, SaaS ecosystems, package implementations, and build-versus-buy technology decisions.
• Proven track record leading large-scale platform architecture and modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software delivery within Agile and product-centric organizations.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture thinking with hands-on implementation leadership.
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot/Spring Cloud), .NET/C#, or Python.
• Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, API design, and distributed systems.
• Strong cloud architecture experience on GCP (preferred) or AWS.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, data engineering patterns, and analytics platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake, SQL Server, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience with SalesForce and related data integrations.
• Familiarity with DevOps toolchains including Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms.
• Knowledge of AI/ML architecture patterns, model deployment, and governance frameworks.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.