Enterprise Architect, Investment Platform

Wellington Management•Boston, MA

21h•$120,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect will play a senior role in Wellington Management’s Enterprise Architecture practice, shaping the firm’s technology direction, architecture standards, platform strategies, and governance model. The role develops architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, patterns, standards, and technology guidance to enable business-focused innovation, reduce complexity, manage technology risk, and optimize costs across the enterprise. Working with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, solution architects, architecture domain working groups, and governance partners, the Enterprise Architect ensures business and technology decisions are outcome-driven, capability-first, platform-centric, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. The position combines strategic architecture leadership with practical solution engagement, emphasizing enterprise direction, standards, reuse, risk management, and long-term platform evolution. The architect translates complex technology strategy into clear guidance and helps teams balance speed, cost, resiliency, security, and risk. The role also partners with technology and product teams on architecture roadmaps and solution design; participates in governance and technology evaluation; and helps develop Wellington’s architecture community through mentoring, education, and consistent practices. The position is based at 280 Congress. Employees work from the office four days a week, with flexibility to work remotely one day a week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience is also referenced as preferred in lieu of an advanced degree.
10 or more years of experience in technology leadership, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, technology strategy, or large-scale technology transformation.
Demonstrated experience developing architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, patterns, and governance materials in a complex enterprise environment.
Strong understanding of modern architecture practices, including domain-driven design, API and event-driven integration, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, data platforms, AI platforms, and reusable platform services.
Experience assessing technology decisions for business value, risk, resiliency, security, cost, operational impact, and long-term maintainability.
Ability to work effectively with senior technology leaders, product owners, solution architects, engineers, risk partners, information security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams.
Strong executive communication skills and ability to translate complex technical concepts into concise, business-aligned recommendations.
Experience with architecture governance processes, architecture review boards, technology standards, non-functional requirements, technical debt management, and post-implementation validation.
Ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority, building trust through expertise, collaboration, follow-through, and practical judgment.
Demonstrated ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems while maintaining momentum across stakeholders and initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or equivalent experience.
Familiarity with architecture frameworks, modeling approaches, TOGAF, Open Group standards, or related industry architecture practices.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain architecture strategies and roadmaps for assigned platforms, domains, or enterprise capabilities, aligned with technology strategy and business priorities.
Translate business outcomes into architecture direction, target-state designs, transition plans, and sequencing recommendations.
Partner with platform and product leaders to create capability-based roadmaps that prioritize business value before technology selection.
Identify enterprise synergies, dependencies, architectural constraints, and opportunities to simplify across platforms and product areas.
Provide strategic guidance for major initiatives involving data, AI, developer experience, integration, infrastructure, security, and platform modernization.
Create clear architecture communications for senior leaders and delivery teams, explaining tradeoffs, risks, and decisions.
Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, principles, patterns, and standards for consistent, scalable, secure, and resilient technology delivery.
Promote standard technology stacks, reusable platforms, common services, governed data products, and consistent integration patterns.
Work with domain working groups across data, security, infrastructure, developer experience, and AI to develop practical standards and patterns.
Contribute to the central architecture repository and drive adoption of architecture standards through education, consultation, governance, and direct engagement.
Participate in the Architecture Review Board and related governance processes; ensure significant technology decisions are reviewed, documented, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Assess architecture risks, design gaps, technology debt, resiliency concerns, integration dependencies, and security considerations.
Help teams prepare architecture reviews by clarifying decision points, documenting tradeoffs, and grounding recommendations in business outcomes and architecture principles.
Support post-implementation architecture reviews and validations against approved architecture direction and non-functional requirements.
Partner with technology risk, information security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams to address control, compliance, resilience, and operational expectations.
Work with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, technology leads, and solution architects to shape platform roadmaps and product architecture runways.
Provide architecture guidance for business applications, data and AI platforms, API platforms, DevSecOps platforms, cloud infrastructure, integration services, and other enterprise capabilities.
Connect requirements, standards, patterns, governance, and delivery execution to help product teams move from business demand to approved architecture.
Advise teams on platform reuse, design simplification, and when custom development may create competitive advantage.
Support solution architects and technical leads with solution design, non-functional requirements, integration patterns, cloud-native practices, data architecture, and documentation.
Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, retire redundant technologies, improve reuse, and align product decisions with enterprise direction.
Lead or contribute to technology evaluations, proofs of concept, prototypes, and industry research informing architecture direction and investment decisions.
Assess emerging technologies against architecture principles, business capabilities, platform strategy, operational requirements, and risk posture.
Make structured recommendations on build-versus-buy decisions, platform selection, modernization, and technology lifecycle considerations.
Evaluate technology for scalability, resiliency, security, observability, maintainability, cost, developer experience, data alignment, and enterprise fit.
Develop architecture guidance for strategic areas including AI enablement, developer experience, data platforms, integration modernization, cloud infrastructure, and responsible AI.
Communicate technology evaluation findings clearly and in a decision-oriented manner.
Mentor solution architects, technology leads, and engineers on architecture methods, standards, and governance expectations.
Contribute to architecture training, certification, and practice development, including modeling, governance, roadmaps, patterns, standards, risk, and executive communication.
Promote consistent architecture deliverables, templates, tools, and practices across the enterprise.
Support architecture domain working groups with enterprise context, cross-platform visibility, and practical decision-making discipline.
Foster collaboration among enterprise architects, embedded solution architects, product teams, and platform leaders.

Benefits

Retirement plan
Health and wellbeing coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Pharmacy coverage
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Commuter program
Employee assistance program
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Adoption assistance
Back-up childcare
Tuition/CFA reimbursement
Paid time off, including leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick, and vacation time
Eligible employees may receive a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/or incentives