Enterprise Architect
Location: San Francisco, CA
12+ Months
Full stack Enterprise Solution Architect
We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Enterprise Solution Architect to design and guide the development of mission-critical technology solutions supporting investment management, research, trading, risk, and operational workflows. This role plays a key part in modernizing and evolving enterprise platforms while maintaining the stability, security, and governance required in a regulated financial environment. This role bridges architecture strategy and technical execution, working closely with stakeholders, engineering teams, and leadership to translate complex requirements into robust, future-proof architectures.
The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong architectural judgment, communication skills, and a pragmatic approach to enterprise systems, along with an appreciation for the unique constraints of asset management systems data accuracy, auditability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end architecture of enterprise applications, spanning front-end, back-end, integration, data, and cloud infrastructure
Partner with business (portfolio managers, analysts, operations, compliance), and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical platform solutions
Define and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures
Design APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and integration layers to support enterprise workflows
Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and vendors aligned with long-term strategy
Provide hands-on guidance and technical leadership to development teams
Ensure solutions meet regulatory, security, performance, reliability, data governance and compliance requirements
Review solution designs, code, and deployments to ensure architectural integrity
Support cloud and hybrid architectures, including scalability, resilience, and cost optimization
Mentor other solution architects / developers and help raise overall engineering and architectural maturity
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software development and solution architecture
- Strong full-stack expertise (modern JavaScript frameworks, backend services, APIs, and databases)
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale, high-reliability systems
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and distributed architectures
- Experience with microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, messaging, and integration patterns
- Solid grounding in security principles, authentication/authorization, and data protection
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in asset management, investment management, banking, or financial services, or large enterprise environments
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to data platforms, analytics, or event streaming technologies
- Experience with enterprise AI platforms (ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot Studio, Gemini, Snowflake Cortex AI) and AI application use cases
- Background in regulated industries for compliance awareness.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading architectural reviews
