Enterprise Architect, Investment Platform

Location: Boston, MA, United States; employees work from the office 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week.

Base salary: USD 120,000–225,000 per year, plus potential variable compensation, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an independent investment management firm serving institutional clients and mutual fund sponsors in more than 60 countries, with over US$1 trillion in assets under management as of 30 September 2025.

What you will do

• Develop enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps, target-state designs, transition plans, reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns.
• Guide architecture for business applications, data and AI platforms, API and DevSecOps platforms, cloud infrastructure, integration services, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board and governance processes, assessing technology risk, technical debt, resiliency, security, compliance, and non-functional requirements.
• Partner with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, solution architects, engineers, risk, security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams.
• Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, build-versus-buy analysis, modernization assessments, and industry research.
• Mentor architects and technology leads while developing architecture training, standards, templates, tools, and community practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field; advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• 10 or more years of experience in technology leadership, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform architecture, technology strategy, or large-scale technology transformation.
• Experience developing architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, patterns, and governance materials in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of domain-driven design, API and event-driven integration, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, data platforms, AI platforms, and reusable platform services.
• Experience assessing technology decisions across business value, risk, resiliency, security, cost, operational impact, and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to work with senior technology leaders, product owners, solution architects, engineers, risk partners, information security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into concise, business-aligned recommendations.
• Experience with architecture governance, architecture review boards, technology standards, non-functional requirements, technical debt management, and post-implementation validation.
• Ability to influence without formal authority, structure ambiguous problems, build trust, and maintain momentum across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, modeling approaches, TOGAF, Open Group standards, or related industry architecture practices.
• Advanced degree or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with four office days and one remote day per week.
• Benefits include retirement plan, health, dental, vision, pharmacy, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter program, insurance, and employee assistance.
• Additional benefits may include adoption assistance, backup childcare, tuition and CFA reimbursement, paid holidays, sick and vacation time, and other paid leave.
• Eligible employees may receive discretionary corporate bonus or incentives.
• Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.