Director, Solutions Architect

Director, Solutions Architecture

Boston, MA (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite)

We are searching for a Director of Solutions Architecture to lead the technical vision and architecture strategy for enterprise applications, cloud modernization, and digital transformation initiatives. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions while partnering with executive leadership, Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams. If you are a hands-on architecture leader with extensive experience modernizing enterprise applications and leading large-scale cloud migration initiatives, please reach out to Chris McMillan at [email protected] with an updated resume.

The Role

• Lead the architecture and technical strategy for enterprise applications, cloud platforms, APIs, data services, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive application modernization initiatives, transforming legacy platforms into scalable, cloud-native architectures.
• Lead the migration of enterprise applications, user interfaces (UI), APIs, and SaaS platforms into AWS cloud environments, ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Design enterprise solutions that leverage cloud-native services, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and executive leadership to translate business objectives into enterprise technology solutions.
• Establish architecture standards, governance, and best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership on modernization, security, resiliency, disaster recovery, and enterprise integration initiatives.
• Review architecture designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans while guiding engineering teams through delivery.
• Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, and cloud engineering best practices across the organization.

Experience

• 12+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise software solutions.
• Must have experience in the Financial Services, Asset Management, Investment Management or related environments.
• Experience leading Solution Architecture teams or serving as a senior enterprise architect within complex organizations.
• Proven experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications and migrating them to modern cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience migrating enterprise UIs, REST APIs, middleware, and SaaS applications into AWS cloud environments is required.
• Deep expertise designing cloud-native applications using AWS (Azure experience is a plus).
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration, API architecture, distributed systems, security, scalability, and resiliency.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps and governing enterprise technology standards.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, databases, and cloud-based application architectures.