Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

Flywire; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 181.000 - 259.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

ESPP

Generous time off

Wellbeing programs

Career development

Descripción de la vacante

Flywire, a global payments company, seeks a Head of Architecture to partner with the CTO and lead the evolution of enterprise architecture for its global payments platform. You will set standards, guide platform decisions, and mentor architects across regions, balancing tech strategy with execution in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Open to Chicago, IL or Austin, TX, with emphasis on scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions and strong collaboration with product and security teams.

Formación

• 15+ years in software engineering and architecture leadership roles.
• Experience as Enterprise/Chief Architect or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale tech environments.
• Deep expertise in scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transactions.
• Strong background in microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience in regulated industries such as fintech/payments.
• Ability to influence engineering orgs and drive architectural standards.
• Strong collaboration with engineering, product, and exec leadership.
• Excellent communication across company and with C-suite.
• Open to Chicago, IL or Austin, TX.

Responsabilidades

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywire’s global payments platform and software solutions.
• Establish architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Drive architectural alignment and technical excellence across global engineering teams.
• Build and mentor a team of domain and platform architects.
• Lead modernization of legacy systems and evolution of the common platform architecture.
• Guide adoption of microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Establish architecture governance frameworks and design standards.
• Ensure scalability, security, and compliance while managing technical debt.
• Advise the CTO on technology investment and platform evolution.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve engineering velocity and platform capabilities.
• Lead due diligence during M&A and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, infra, and security teams for alignment.
• Work with global teams across regions to enforce architecture standards.

Conocimientos

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven systems

Fintech/payments domain

Global platform leadership

C-suite collaboration

Distributed systems

Technical due diligence

Descripción del empleo

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate! Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world. What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who We Are

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments. We’ve scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 5,100 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies. With over 1,400+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 15 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

The Opportunity

Flywire is seeking a Head of Architecture to serve as the strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer and lead the evolution of Flywire’s enterprise architecture. This leader will define the long-term architecture strategy for our global payments platform while ensuring our technology ecosystem scales with Flywire’s continued growth.

This role will be responsible for establishing architecture standards, guiding major platform decisions, and driving evolution and modernization across Flywire’s technology stack. The Head of Architecture will partner closely with engineering leadership, product teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment of direction, goals and roadmaps.

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced enterprise architect who has built and scaled global platforms in complex distributed environments and thrives operating at the intersection of technology strategy and engineering execution. The head of Architecture is first and foremost passionate about Technology, leads with AI first mindset, detailed oriented and hands on when required.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership:

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywire’s global payments platform and software solutions.
• Establish architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Drive architectural alignment, foster a culture of technical excellence and architectural discipline across engineering teams operating globally.
• Build and mentor a small team of domain and platform architects.

Technology Governance

• Lead initiatives to modernize and rationalize different legacy systems and evolve Flywire’s common platform architecture.
• Guide the adoption of modern architecture patterns including microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Establish architecture governance frameworks including architecture review boards and design standards.
• Ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability, security, and compliance requirements while containing or reducing technical debt.

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO on technology investment decisions and platform evolution.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of innovations that improve engineering velocity and platform capabilities.
• Lead technical due diligence process during M&A and strategic partnership initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure architectural alignment across initiatives.
• Work with global engineering teams across multiple regions to drive consistent architecture standards

Here’s What We’re Looking For

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale technology environments.
• Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transaction workloads.
• Strong background in microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience operating in complex regulated industries such as fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and drive architectural standards across distributed teams.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and executive leadership.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate Technology matters across the company and including C suite.
• Experience leading architecture initiatives within global engineering organizations.
• Open to Chicago, IL or Austin, TX

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Competitive time off
• Work with brilliant people globally Learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers, OneFlywire Career Mobility)

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, genetic disposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other category protected under applicable national, federal, state or local law.

The Base Salary For This Position Is

$181,180-$258,828