Principal Architect - Enterprise Architecture

Job Responsibilities

• Align architectural target states, standards, and paved paths with multi-year business strategies, operational constraints, and ongoing technology initiatives.
• Define and own architectural direction for major cross-firm programs spanning multiple organizations.
• Drive firm level architectural initiatives such as resilience, simplification, inventory, entitlements, or agentic development.
• Author reference patterns and influential narratives focused on emerging and existing technology challenges that enjoy broad adoption across the firm.
• Chair or sponsor major Architecture Working Groups and standards forums and set the bar for effective governance that helps drive firmwide change.
• Mediate between organizations to converge on shared architectural target states and paved paths when localized approaches diverge.
• Stay hands-on and focus on our hardest technology problems including reviewing design and code in detail as needed.
• Influence the decisions of Executive Directors and Market Directors level leaders across functions and activate their organizations to adopt and champion our architectural direction.
• Make the case for major technological investments based on our architectural recommendations and clearly articulate tradeoffs (e.g., costs, risks, timelines).
• Mentor Principal track architects.

Requirements

• Obtain 10 plus years in architecture or engineering, and experience delivering architecture outcomes for enterprise-scale problems.
• Deep expertise across three or four technology domains with recognized mastery in in least one or two of these domains.
• Knowledge in one or more software, applications, and architecture.
• Experience leading or sponsoring large-scale architecture transformation programs that span multiple organizations.
• Strong visual and written communication. We expect you to write strategic narratives, investment cases, and reference patterns.
• Demonstrable record leading cross-organizational initiatives without direct authority and of influencing senior leaders.
• Ability to work with minimal oversight, occasional checkpoints with leadership, and ownership of results across multi-year horizons.
• Working knowledge of financial services, our regulatory expectations, how these shape architectural decisions.
• Demonstrated experience applying enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment in architecture and engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, application development, and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Ability to present and effectively communicate to Senior Leaders and Executives.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise-grade architectures while meeting resiliency, security, and auditability requirements.