Engineering Architect

Job Location: The primary work location for this role is remote.

About Envestnet

Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs. For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com.

The Team You’ll Join

On the Tamarac development team, we build one of the industry’s most advanced portfolio management and trading platforms for RIAs. We tackle complex engineering challenges every day—from large scale data ingestion and analytics to deep system integrations, high performance trading algorithms, and a robust full stack web experience used by thousands of advisors. As we continue to scale the platform—supporting 50+ million trades annually—we’re modernizing our architecture to meet growing demand while delivering innovative, advisor-focused features.

Our engineers collaborate across disciplines to build AI-powered insights, enhance cross-platform capabilities, and design resilient, cloud-native systems. This is a rare opportunity to join us in shaping the technical roadmap of a leading trading platform—driving how we scale, evolve, and deliver capabilities that elevate both the advisor and client experience, with real-world impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Defines and drives the technical vision and long-term system designs that support scalable, secure and reliable financial technology platforms.
• Collaborates with product, engineering, security and infrastructure teams to translate business strategy into clear architectural standards and roadmaps.
• Guides team on modern cloud, data and integration patterns while ensuring compliance with regulatory, risk and resiliency requirements.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and makes recommendations that balance innovation with stability, cost and operational efficiency.
• Ensures the Envestnet technology ecosystem remains cohesive, future-ready and aligned with business growth and client needs.
• Leads requirements elicitation sessions for defined features or systems and translates them into structured architecture specifications.
• Designs end-to-end solutions for medium complexity systems aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Owns system integration design across multiple applications, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reliability.
• Defines technical approaches for software implementation, installation, upgrades, and migration within assigned domains.
• Evaluates design trade-offs and recommends solutions balancing functionality, cost, operational efficiency, and risk.
• Applies cloud, data, security, and integration patterns to deliver robust and reusable architectures.
• Collaborates with product and engineering teams to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical design.
• Identifies gaps or conflicts in requirements and resolves them through structured architectural analysis.
• Contributes to defining and refining architectural standards within a domain or product area.
• Stays current on technology trends and applies relevant innovations where appropriate to improve solution outcomes.
• Designs scalable and reliable technology solutions that support modern trading capabilities, leveraging cloud architecture, integration patterns, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven technologies.
• Applies expertise with modern engineering technologies, including .NET, AWS services, Kubernetes, and Kafka, to deliver high-quality solutions in a product engineering environment.
• Utilizes agentic coding tools to accelerate design validation, prototype integrations, and generate technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting/Finance with technology experience, or a related field.
• Hands-on architecture experience designing scalable, reliable, and reusable systems across cloud, data, security, and integration patterns.
• Experience evaluating design trade-offs across functionality, cost, operational efficiency, reliability, scalability, and risk.
• Experienced with C4 architecture modeling, data architecture, enterprise architecture standards, and architectural governance practices.
• Technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, or ElastiCache.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP cloud services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.

Nice-to-Haves

• Strong knowledge of trading domain systems, system integration design, implementation planning, upgrades, migrations, and operational risk considerations.
• Experience with API management solutions such as Apigee.
• AWS experience using services including EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS.

Why You’ll Enjoy Working at Envestnet

Help shape the future of WealthTech. At Envestnet you’ll gain hands-on experience and collaborate with some of the industry’s brightest minds to deliver meaningful, innovative solutions that make a real difference. We value flexibility in how and where work gets done, and we recognize strong performance with meaningful rewards—because your contributions should drive both business success and your own personal growth. If you’re looking for a place where your work has impact, your development is supported, and your contributions are truly valued, Envestnet is where you can build your future.

Pay

This role offers a base salary range of $167,500 to $209,400. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive suite of benefits—subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules—that support your overall well-being including medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage, and mental health & wellness support. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us. Please visit our benefits page on our career site to learn more.