Enterprise Architect, Investment Platform

Wellington Management•Boston, MA

2d•$120,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect will play a senior role in Wellington Management’s Enterprise Architecture practice, helping shape 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 cost across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect works with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, solution architects, architecture domain working groups, and governance partners to ensure 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-level direction, standards, reuse, risk management, and long-term platform evolution. The role requires translating complex technology strategy into clear guidance for senior stakeholders, platform leaders, product teams, and architecture communities. The architect helps teams balance speed, cost, resiliency, security, and risk while making technology decisions. The position also includes technology evaluations and industry research, architecture governance and risk assessment, platform and product partnership, and mentoring and developing the architecture community.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered as a preferred alternative to an advanced degree, as stated in the posting.
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 based on 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, including the 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.
Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems while maintaining momentum across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.

Nice To Haves

An 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 and strategic objectives into architecture direction, target-state designs, transition plans, and sequencing recommendations.
Partner with platform and product leaders to define capability-based roadmaps that prioritize business value before technology selection.
Identify enterprise synergies, dependencies, architectural constraints, and opportunities to simplify platforms and product areas.
Provide strategic guidance for major technology 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, patterns, principles, 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.
Ensure solutions follow approved architecture principles, including everything-as-a-service, everything-as-code, security by design, testability, observability, resiliency, strategic data usage, event-driven architecture, and responsible AI.
Work with domain working groups across data, security, infrastructure, developer experience, and AI to establish practical standards and patterns.
Contribute to the central architecture repository so strategies, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and governance decisions are discoverable and reusable.
Drive adoption of architecture standards through education, consultation, governance participation, and direct engagement with platform and product teams.
Participate in and support the Architecture Review Board and related governance processes, ensuring 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 across platforms and major initiatives.
Help teams prepare architecture reviews by clarifying decision points, documenting tradeoffs, and grounding recommendations in business outcomes and architecture principles.
Provide governance oversight that supports delivery velocity through clear standards, effective decision rights, and early risk identification.
Support post-implementation architecture reviews and validations to confirm alignment with approved direction and non-functional requirements.
Partner with technology risk, information security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams on control, compliance, resilience, and operational expectations.
Work with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, technology leads, and solution architects to shape platform architecture roadmaps and product architecture runways.
Provide architecture guidance for business applications, data platforms, AI platforms, API platforms, DevSecOps platforms, cloud infrastructure, integration services, and other enterprise capabilities.
Help product teams connect requirements, standards, patterns, governance, and delivery execution to move from business demand to approved architecture.
Bridge enterprise strategy and product delivery by identifying opportunities to reuse existing platforms, simplify designs, and use custom development where it creates competitive advantage.
Support solution architects and technical leads with solution design, non-functional requirements, integration patterns, cloud-native practices, data architecture, and architecture documentation.
Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, retire redundant technologies, improve reuse, and align product-level decisions with enterprise architecture 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.
Provide structured recommendations on build-versus-buy decisions, platform selection, modernization opportunities, 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 such as AI enablement, developer experience, data platforms, integration modernization, cloud infrastructure, and responsible AI.
Communicate technology evaluation findings clearly and in a decision-oriented manner to senior stakeholders and implementation teams.
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 between enterprise architects, embedded solution architects, product teams, and platform leaders.
Improve the quality, clarity, and consistency of architecture decision-making across Wellington.

Benefits

Retirement plan
Health and wellbeing benefits
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
Salary and variable compensation