Director, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture

Position Overview

The Enterprise & Solutions Architecture will own the firm’s enterprise architecture foundation and guide how technology supports the business as it scales. This person will define core architecture standards, shape integration and data-flow patterns, oversee the messaging strategy, and ensure systems evolve in a coherent, secure, and efficient way.

The role blends enterprise architecture with hands-on solutioning. The Director will partner directly with engineering leads, vendor teams, and business stakeholders to design technical solutions for a wide range of needs, from vendor platform integrations to bespoke internal builds. This leader must be commercially minded and comfortable rolling up their sleeves in a dynamic environment while also providing strategic architectural leadership.

Financial services experience is essential, along with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across a fast-moving organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• • Enterprise Architecture Leadership
    • Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference models, and best practices.
    • Define the target-state architecture across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure.
    • Guide system modernization efforts, including platform refactoring, cloud optimization, and architectural simplification.
  • Solutions Architecture
    • Work directly with technology and business stakeholders to translate business needs into practical, scalable, secure technical designs.
    • Lead solution design reviews and provide architectural oversight for projects delivered by internal teams or external vendors.
    • Provide hands-on design support during project delivery, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term architecture goals.
    • Partner with engineering to ensure solutions align with enterprise principles and long-term strategy.
  • Integration & Messaging Architecture
    • Own the firm’s integration strategy, including patterns, tooling, and governance.
    • Design and evolve messaging and eventing frameworks to support reliable, real-time, and batch data flows.
    • Oversee integrations across critical systems (internal and vendor platforms), ensuring performance, resilience, and data quality.
  • Technology Risk, Security, and Compliance Alignment
    • Ensure solution designs follow security best practices, identity and access patterns, and regulatory expectations relevant to financial services.
    • Collaborate with risk, security, and audit teams to ensure architectures support resilience, recoverability, and appropriate controls.
  • Application Portfolio & Lifecycle Management
    • Maintain visibility into the full application and integration landscape.
    • Identify simplification opportunities, redundancy, technical debt, and modernization needs.
    • Guide deprecation, consolidation, and long-term lifecycle planning.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
    • Work closely with peers across technology, operations, finance, risk, and investment teams to co-design solutions.
    • Communicate complex concepts in clear, accessible language for technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Act as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders, helping shape technology decisions and investment priorities.
  • Hands-On Contribution
    • Perform deep-dive analysis during solution design, issue investigation, or integration troubleshooting.
    • Contribute lightweight prototyping, architecture diagrams, data-flow modeling, and vendor evaluation.

Qualification and Experience

• • Required
    • 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or senior technical leadership roles.
    • Strong experience designing systems within financial services (asset management, credit, capital markets, or related domains).
    • Broad knowledge of application, data, integration, and cloud architectures.
    • Experience defining integration frameworks, messaging patterns, and API strategies.
    • Experience with enterprise architecture tools, modeling frameworks, or governance processes.
    • Track record of working across vendor platforms and custom-built systems.
    • Strong communication skills, clear writing, structured thinking, and effective presentation.
    • Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence without authority.
    • Willingness to be hands-on in a lean, fast-moving environment.
  • Preferred
    • Experience designing or supporting enterprise data platforms, workflow engines, or event-driven systems.
    • Background with Azure cloud services, data pipelines, and identity/SSO patterns.
    • Prior work in high-growth, entrepreneurial, or transformation-driven environments.

Base Salary Range

$200,000-$275,000