Senior Solution Architect, Enterprise & Cloud

Wellington Management Company; Town of Boston, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health coverage

Dental/Vision

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Backup childcare

CFA reimbursement

Job summary

Wellington Management is seeking a Solution Architect, Technology to lead architecture for one or more products and platforms. The role translates business objectives into scalable, secure designs, working with product owners, engineers, and enterprise architects to shape technical direction and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

The candidate will balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, participate in architecture governance, and guide teams on cloud-native design,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, platform architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience architecting complex enterprise applications and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, application architecture, integration patterns, event-driven architecture, APIs, microservices, and distributed computing.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and observability.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient solutions.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, integration architecture, and enterprise application design.
• Ability to work effectively across product, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive communication abilities.
• Experience with architecture governance, architecture review processes, and technology standards.
• Prior experience in financial services, asset management, capital markets, or highly regulated industries preferred.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, modeling approaches, TOGAF, Open Group standards, or related industry architecture practices is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems while maintaining momentum across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical design activities for one or more products, platforms, or solution domains.
• Translate business requirements, product vision, and operational objectives into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Create architecture artifacts and design documentation communicating decisions and trade-offs.
• Guide engineering teams through architecture implementation and ensure design intent is maintained.
• Define architecture roadmaps and runways to support product evolution.
• Identify technology dependencies, modernization opportunities, and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Ensure architecture investments align with product priorities and platform goals.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to align产品 roadmaps with enterprise strategies.
• Assist with solution risks, architecture investments, and implementation sequencing.
• Provide governance and ensure alignment with standards through architecture reviews.
• Support post-implementation architecture validations and governance to confirm alignment with non-functional requirements.
• Partner with security, risk, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams to address control and resilience.
• Provide senior technical guidance to engineering teams across SDLC, participate in code/design reviews, and help define non-functional requirements.
• Advise on cloud-native design, infrastructure-as-code, automation, platform engineering, and deployment strategies.
• Mentor engineers and architects in architecture methods and patterns.
• Communicate architecture recommendations clearly to product owners and stakeholders.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

TOGAF

Open Group standards

Job description

Wellington Management is seeking a Solution Architect, Technology to lead architecture for one or more products and platforms. The role translates business objectives into scalable, secure designs, working with product owners, engineers, and enterprise architects to shape technical direction and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

The candidate will balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, participate in architecture governance, and guide teams on cloud-native design,