Strategic Lead, Solutions Architecture

The Blue Venture Fund; Oak Brook (IL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape architecture strategy, guide cross-portfolio technology decisions, and align business objectives with technology investments. The role provides architectural leadership across multiple product teams and capabilities, establishing standards and long-term roadmaps for scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

You will mentor architects and technical leaders, drive governance, and promote consistency and engineering excellence

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture roadmaps and target-state architectures for one or more business domains.
• Translate business strategy into practical technology strategies, capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple initiatives, aligning solutions with objectives and principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, trends, and vendor capabilities to identify opportunities and risks.
• Guide decisions across products, platforms, integrations, data domains, and shared services.
• Resolve architectural conflicts and cross-team tradeoffs.
• Ensure solutions support long-term goals while balancing cost, risk, complexity, and delivery.
• Lead planning for modernization, platform evolution, debt reduction, and resiliency.
• Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and decision frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance for strategic initiatives.
• Promote consistency, reusability, security across the tech landscape.
• Drive ADRs, standards, and documentation practices.
• Identify and address architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and weaknesses.
• Ensure security, compliance, privacy, resiliency, recoverability, and scalability.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, operations, and engineering teams for alignment with controls.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency planning.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams on architecture practices and decision-making.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Lead architecture communities of practice and capability development.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Influence strategic decisions through analysis of benefits, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Support portfolio planning and long-range technology strategy discussions.
• As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.

Job description

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape architecture strategy, guide cross-portfolio technology decisions, and align business objectives with technology investments. The role provides architectural leadership across multiple product teams and capabilities, establishing standards and long-term roadmaps for scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

You will mentor architects and technical leaders, drive governance, and promote consistency and engineering excellence