Head of Platform Architecture

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business.

About the Role

The mission of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function is to empower the firm to achieve its strategic objectives through the optimal use of technology. The EA function aligns technology with business capabilities to enable effective strategy execution and business transformation. By monitoring and adopting emerging technologies, EA drives technology-enabled innovation and keeps the firm ahead of industry disruption.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Platforms Architecture to provide enterprise-level leadership and direction for platform and infrastructure architecture. This role will oversee strategy, standards, roadmaps, governance, and operating model alignment across multiple technology domains and teams. The role will lead directly and through senior architects, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, secure, and business-aligned technology platforms. This role will also play a lead role in M&A technology due diligence and integration planning, applying platform architecture to accelerate integration and synergy generation.

Focus

• Oversee enterprise perspective on common enterprise platforms that are leveraged firm-wide to unlock scalability and improved productivity.
• Drive for common standards and usage of platforms and infrastructure across the firm while pushing to eliminate legacy redundancy.
• Leverage the voice of engineers and the software development lifecycle as a guide to define the future state of technical platforms, absorbing heavy lifting of solving recurring technical problems into the platform layer, freeing up developers to focus on business features.
• Focus the future state architecture across public cloud and on-premise infrastructure at the conceptual and logical level, and partner closely with platform engineering and infrastructure teams to translate into physical design.
• Design and oversee the operating model for platform and infrastructure architecture across multiple teams, ensuring clear ownership, decision rights, review forums, and lifecycle accountability for enterprise technology platforms.
• Spearhead M&A technology due diligence, integration planning, and execution of integrating infrastructure and technology landscape between T. Rowe Price and target entities.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Development

• Develop and maintain the technical platform and infrastructure architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure alignment of platform architecture with the organization’s business objectives and IT strategy to increase speed of delivery.
• Ensure alignment of infrastructure architecture with the organization’s business growth ambition for scalability and flexibility.
• Advise and provide consulting for new technologies to modernize infrastructure capabilities and improve efficiency.
• Make architecture decisions guided by long-term business strategy, enterprise priorities, risk posture, and approved operating plans, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term scalability, resiliency, and total cost of ownership.

Architecture Design and Implementation

• Lead the design and deployment of robust, scalable, and secure technology platforms and infrastructure.
• Ensure technical platforms and infrastructure adhere to enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
• Oversee the integration of various platforms and infrastructure components within the enterprise technology landscape.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Provide leadership and direction to architects, engineers, and technology leaders, including leadership through subordinate managers or senior technical leads, to deliver enterprise platform and infrastructure outcomes across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with IT leaders, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure the successful delivery of platform and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Provide expert guidance on technology platform and infrastructure architecture to various teams within the organization.
• Build and maintain a wide internal and external network across business, technology, vendor, and industry communities, leveraging those relationships to influence architecture direction and deliver outcomes.

Governance and Compliance

• Establish and enforce policies, standards, and guidelines for technology platform and infrastructure architecture.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies for all platform and infrastructure solutions.
• Conduct regular reviews and audits of platform and infrastructure architecture to ensure compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Articulate broader business, risk, control, and regulatory considerations impacting platform and infrastructure architecture, including data privacy, resiliency, cybersecurity, financial controls, and applicable regulatory expectations.
• Establish and manage architecture review practices for major platform and infrastructure initiatives, ensuring in-flight work remains aligned to enterprise standards, target-state architecture, risk requirements, and business objectives.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in technology platform and infrastructure architecture, focusing on optimization and modernization.
• Stay informed about the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to maintain a competitive edge.
• Implement best practices for platform and infrastructure performance tuning and optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field and 12+ years of relevant technology experience, including 5+ years of management experience leading architecture, engineering, or technology teams in large, complex environments.
• Proven experience leading technology platform architecture and infrastructure modernization projects in large, complex environments, and managing a team of architects.
• Deep understanding of platform architecture, infrastructure design and engineering principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with a variety of technical platforms (e.g., APIM, Messaging Middleware, DevSecOps, Observability, Developer Portal or Experience Platform, etc.).
• Experience with major enterprise software platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Workday, Appian, etc.).
• Proficiency in multi-cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their platform services.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns and practices (e.g., design patterns for microservices, loosely coupled architecture, DevSecOps practices, etc.).
• Experience with a variety of infrastructure technologies (e.g., networks, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud services).
• Demonstrated ownership of one or more enterprise architectural disciplines, with accountability for standards, roadmaps, lifecycle decisions, and long-term operational outcomes.
• Extensive experience in M&A IT due diligence, integration planning, and execution.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and guide teams, and develop global teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders while building trust.
• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to building, developing, mentoring, and retaining technical talent, while fostering inclusive partnerships and a culture of collaboration across architecture and engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architecture Practitioner certification.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, developer tools, infrastructure, and data center operations.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards relevant to technology platforms and infrastructure components.

Schedule

This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home.

Pay

• $201,000.00 - $342,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and remote workers.
• $221,000.00 - $350,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
• $251,000.00 - $350,000.00 for the location of: New York, California.

Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.