Director, Solution Architect

**Role Summary** We are seeking a hands-on Platform Architect with strong domain expertise across Custody, Wealth, and Asset Management to define, shape, and deliver modern platform architecture aligned to business and technology strategy. This role requires deep architectural capability combined with practical engineering credibility. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with product, engineering, operations, data, and business stakeholders to design scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performing solutions across critical platforms. This is not a purely conceptual architecture role. We are looking for someone who remains technically hands-on, can guide engineering teams through complex implementation decisions, and is comfortable engaging from strategy through execution. **Key Responsibilities** Architecture Leadership: - Define and evolve platform architecture strategy for applications and services supporting Custody, Wealth, and Asset Management capabilities. - Translate business priorities, operating model objectives, and regulatory requirements into scalable architecture roadmaps. - Produce architecture blueprints, target-state designs, integration patterns, and modernization strategies. - Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture principles, security standards, resiliency expectations, and engineering best practices. - Lead architecture reviews and provide technical governance across solution design, delivery, and platform evolution. Domain & Business Alignment: - Partner with business and product stakeholders to understand workflows, operating models, pain points, and transformation opportunities across: - Custody operations and servicing - Asset servicing - Portfolio administration - Wealth platforms and advisory capabilities - Asset management data and investment workflows - Client reporting, accounting, reconciliation, and operational controls - Apply domain understanding to improve platform design, data flow, interoperability, and operational efficiency. - Support simplification and modernization of legacy workflows and platforms in highly controlled financial environments. Hands-On Technical Delivery: - Remain actively involved in engineering and solution delivery, including prototyping, design validation, code reviews, technical troubleshooting, and implementation guidance. - Work with engineering teams on API design, system integration, event-driven architecture, data patterns, cloud deployment models, and observability. - Contribute to reference implementations, proof of concepts, and reusable architecture patterns. - Help teams solve complex production, performance, scalability, and integration issues. - Cloud, Data, and AI Enablement - Design and support deployment of applications and platforms on Azure and/or AWS. - Drive adoption of cloud-native services, containerization, infrastructure automation, and resilient distributed architecture patterns. - Partner with data teams to design robust data architecture, data pipelines, metadata strategies, and analytics-ready platforms. - Identify and shape use cases for AI / GenAI capabilities, including knowledge retrieval, intelligent workflow support, summarization, classification, and operational productivity improvements. - Ensure AI-enabled solutions are practical, governed, secure, and aligned to enterprise standards. Engineering Excellence & Modernization: - Champion engineering excellence including automation, CI/CD, testing, reliability, security-by-design, and performance optimization. - Drive modernization of legacy applications into modular, API-led, event-enabled, and cloud-compatible platforms. - Promote best practices in software design, observability, resiliency, release management, and operational readiness. - Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to enable stable and scalable production ecosystems. Collaboration & Influence: - Work cross-functionally with architects, engineers, platform leads, da…