Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise Architecture

Fitch Group • New York, NY

2d • $175,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Fitch Group is seeking a Director, Solutions Architecture based in our New York office, reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect for the Fitch Group line of business you support. This is a hands-on architecture role built around one core relationship: engineering squads. You'll partner directly with the teams building technology across your line of business, helping them design solutions, navigate architecture standards, and build with confidence. You'll also help build our internal automated governance agents, contributing hands-on to the tools that support technology evaluation, PR review, and standards enforcement across the organization. This is an individual contributor role — no direct reports — for someone who leads through influence, expertise, and relationship.

Requirements

• A strong record designing and evolving backend/distributed systems architecture, including data modeling and event-driven design, and ideally schema governance, API design, or platform-scale technical standards.
• Real experience building AI agents, working with LLMs, and applying agentic patterns — orchestration, observability, tool use — to production workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption across teams without direct authority — earning buy-in through trust and results, not org-chart power.
• You think of engineers as your customers. You want to understand their problems and help solve them, not enforce a checklist.
• Experience defining and evolving technical standards across many teams — knowing how to get consistent buy-in without slowing everyone down.
• Demonstrated success introducing AI-based development practices — coding assistants, agentic workflows, or developer-productivity tooling — to engineering teams and getting real, sustained usage rather than shelfware.
• Experience mapping system dependencies and leading modernization or automated-upgrade programs across a codebase or platform.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on work building tools that let AI agents discover, query, or act on internal systems.
• Experience standing up or operating observability platforms for LLM agents — traces, cost, safety evaluation.
• Experience leading standards work across a large number of engineering teams.
• A track record of being the go-to technical voice on a team — mentoring and shaping direction through credibility, not title.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct architecture guidance to the engineering squads in your line of business — solution design, trade-off analysis, pattern selection — in the flow of their actual work.
• Step in to help squads prepare when a new technology or a new pattern is entering the picture — pressure-testing the design and reducing back-and-forth before formal review.
• Contribute directly to the agents that power technology evaluation, PR review, standards enforcement, and ARB submission support.
• Take architecture principles and the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and make them concrete and actionable for engineers building real systems.
• Build working examples of patterns before asking teams to adopt them. Credibility here comes from having built it yourself.
• Work closely with engineering leads to understand their constraints and tailor architecture guidance to their specific context — what works for one squad won't work for all of them.
• Help squads adopt AI-assisted and agentic development — coding assistants, AI-driven testing, and agentic workflows — and establish the patterns, guardrails, and metrics that let them ship faster with confidence rather than treating AI as a novelty.
• Use the Tech Roadmap (Invest/Maintain/Divest/Research) and the enterprise architecture graph of dependencies to give squads a clear view of their technical debt — what to retire, what to modernize, and where hidden coupling creates risk before it becomes an incident.
• Help teams stand up automated dependency upgrades, patching, and modernization pipelines — so keeping systems current becomes a routine, low-effort habit instead of a stop-the-world project.
• Create, curate, and maintain reusable reference architectures and a well-documented reference code base that squads can build from — raising the bar on consistency, quality, and speed across your line of business.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed