Senior Technical Architect
About The Position
The Senior Technical Architect is a hands-on role responsible for end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of mission-critical systems. The architect will define macro- and micro-level architecture and work with engineering teams to modernize a VC++ platform into an event-based, high-throughput, low-latency platform using React JS and Java-based microservices, aligned with cloud-native principles. The role leads architecture and platform design for a distributed, cloud-native Investment Accounting platform, including modular microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven processing, data models, and integration patterns across IBOR/ABOR domains. It also leads the modernization of legacy VC++ systems into distributed Java services through migration patterns, decomposition strategies, and phased roadmaps, while preserving required functional equivalence and guiding teams in translating low-level C++ constructs into scalable Java patterns. The architect designs systems for high-throughput transaction processing and near-real-time accounting workflows; defines caching, performance, scalability, and capacity-planning strategies; and designs and implements cloud-native capabilities such as containerization, orchestration, and DevSecOps. The role establishes observability, resiliency, security, and compliance practices and ensures API-first and contract-first design.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in software architecture and distributed-systems design.
- Strong programming background in VC++ and Java, with proven experience in system modernization.
- Rich experience with AWS or Azure, modern CI/CD platforms, and pipeline as code.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with low latency and high throughput.
- Strong understanding of data consistency, transaction processing, and accounting-like systems.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Investment Accounting or Financial Services platforms, including transactions, valuations, positions, and multi-currency processing.
- Familiarity with observability and operational-intelligence frameworks, unified data models, and ledger-based architectures.
- Experience in regulatory and audit-heavy environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architecture for a distributed, cloud-native Investment Accounting platform in alignment with enterprise scalability, resiliency, and availability principles.
- Design modular microservices architectures with clear service boundaries, domain-driven design, and reusable business capabilities.
- Establish event-driven architecture patterns for real-time processing and decoupled, scalable workflows.
- Define data architecture and integration patterns, including unified data models, event contracts, and consistency strategies across IBOR/ABOR domains.
- Lead modernization of legacy VC++ systems into Java-based distributed services.
- Define migration patterns, decomposition strategies, and phased transformation roadmaps.
- Ensure functional equivalence where required while enabling architectural evolution beyond legacy constraints.
- Guide teams in translating low-level C++ constructs into scalable Java service patterns, including stateless services and asynchronous processing.
- Architect systems for high-throughput transaction processing and near-real-time accounting workflows.
- Define cache-driven design strategies, performance benchmarks, scalability patterns, and capacity-planning principles.
- Design and implement cloud-native capabilities, including containerization, orchestration, and DevSecOps.
- Establish observability, resiliency, security, and compliance capabilities and patterns.
- Ensure API-first and contract-first design principles are followed.
- Work hands-on with engineering teams to implement the architecture.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Insurance coverage, including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverage.
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards, subject to stated exclusions.
- Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities.
- Flexible work-life support.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Employee networks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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