Vice President, Application Architecture | Boston, MA, USA

We are seeking a Vice President of Application Architecture to join our Platform Engineering team and provide enterprise-level technical leadership across Enterprise Architecture and Platform Engineering. As a Vice President of Application Architecture, you will develop the firm's target-state architecture across applications, integration, cloud environments, and shared engineering capabilities! • Recognized technical authority with demonstrated success in defining enterprise-scale architecture strategy and influencing adoption across multiple teams, platforms, and business domains • Strong proficiency in enterprise and solution architecture, demonstrating skill in defining target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and pragmatic modernization strategies • Strong experience establishing an integrated platform design and enterprise standards that improve consistency, reusability, scalability, and long-term maintainability • Hands-on knowledge of microservices architecture, micro-frontend architecture, and event-driven design patterns in complex enterprise environments • Fluency in architectural and software design patterns, with the ability to guide teams in selecting the right patterns, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure development and cloud-native architecture, preferably in Azure, including scalable application patterns, integration, identity, networking, observability, and resilience • Proven grasp of DevOps principles and software delivery practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment strategy, and release governance • Expertise in contemporary web application development and architecture, including frameworks and technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and development focused on web-based interfaces • Experience developing distributed systems that make use of Redis for caching, Kafka for messaging, and robust data access layer patterns • Ability to balance strategic architecture direction with practical execution, helping teams modernize incrementally while maintaining delivery momentum • Strong understanding of integration, interoperability, data flow, and domain boundaries across enterprise software and infrastructures • Outstanding communication skills, demonstrated by the capacity to translate architectural strategy and technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations for engineering leaders, executives, and non-technical partners • A collaborative, influential leadership style with a demonstrated ability to support and develop architects and engineers, build alignment, and raise technical standards across the organization What you will do: • Define and evolve a unified platform architecture that spans application development, integration, cloud infrastructure, shared services, and enterprise engineering capabilities • Create enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps that align technology investments with business growth objectives • Guide architecture decisions across product, platform, and enterprise initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, and aligned to long-term strategy • Guide modernization projects that transition legacy applications and platforms toward modern architectures such as microservices, event-driven systems, and micro-frontend-based user experiences • Establish architecture patterns and guardrails for cloud-native engineering, DevOps practices, integration, observability, resilience, and secure software delivery • Drive standardization and reuse across the engineering organization by defining shared frameworks, common services, and architectural building blocks that reduce redundancy and complexity • Partner with application, platform, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure architecture decisions consider operational, regulatory, performance, and supportability requirements • Provide hands-on technical mentorship for modern web system development involving technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, alongside service layers built on APIs • Define standard methodologies for architecture of distributed systems, including messaging, caching, data access, service communication, and domain decomposition by employing platforms such as Kafka and Redis • Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches, making pragmatic recommendations that advance the organization's technology strategy without introducing unnecessary complexity • Influence governance and engineering review processes to improve architectural quality, reduce technical debt, and ensure consistent execution across initiatives • Mentor architects and senior engineers, elevate architectural thinking across teams, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, simplification, and continuous modernization • Support additional critical initiatives as needed What you bring: This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance.

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