Director, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture

ATLAS SP•New York, NY

65d•$200,000 - $275,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perform deep-dive analysis during solution design, issue investigation, or integration troubleshooting.
Contribute lightweight prototyping, architecture diagrams, data-flow modeling, and vendor evaluation.