Senior Enterprise Architect - Cloud, Data & AI

MFS Investment Management; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% retirement match

Education assistance: monthly $100

Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000/yr

Discounted tutors and college coaches

Generous PTO and parental/maternity/f…

Job summary

MFS Investment Management is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape target-state architecture across Cash Management, Collateral Management, DSS, and Portfolio Master platforms. You will lead cloud modernization, platform engineering, and data & AI strategy while guiding multiple teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software or enterprise architecture within financial services, deep Azure/OpenShift/Kubernetes expertise, and a proven ability to drive

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture experience.
• Significant experience within Investment Management, Asset Management, Capital Markets, or Financial Services.
• Deep expertise designing cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps, OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience defining enterprise application modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, messaging technologies, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with modern data platforms including Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with Microsoft AI technologies including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, resilience, and operational excellence practices.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and technology roadmap for Cash Management, Collateral Management, DSS, and Portfolio Master platforms.
• Partner with business leadership to align technology investments with strategic business objectives.
• Help establish architectural standards, design patterns, integration frameworks, and engineering guardrails across multiple technology domains.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that improve business capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Drive enterprise cloud adoption initiatives utilizing Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Develop architectural strategies for application modernization, containerization, and migration from on-premises platforms to cloud-native and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Define enterprise CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, operational resilience, and reliability patterns.
• Establish reference architectures and reusable frameworks that accelerate delivery across engineering teams.
• Define architectural patterns supporting portfolio, investment, and operational data across DSS and Portfolio Master ecosystems.
• Develop data integration strategies leveraging APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern data platforms.
• Promote adoption of Microsoft AI technologies, including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and engineering productivity.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across multiple delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads, and solution architects on architecture best practices and emerging technologies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Azure DevOps

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Snowflake

SQL Server

Oracle

Azure SQL

Job description

MFS Investment Management is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape target-state architecture across Cash Management, Collateral Management, DSS, and Portfolio Master platforms. You will lead cloud modernization, platform engineering, and data & AI strategy while guiding multiple teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software or enterprise architecture within financial services, deep Azure/OpenShift/Kubernetes expertise, and a proven ability to drive