Enterprise Architect, Technology – Enterprise Architecture

Job Description

Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Platform | Wellington Management

The Tone:
This is a full-time, hybrid role at Wellington Management, located in Boston, MA, USA. Wellington Management delivers comprehensive investment management capabilities and solutions to institutional clients globally. This role is crucial for shaping the firm’s technology direction, architecture standards, platform strategies, and governance, ensuring business-focused innovation, reduced complexity, managed risk, and optimized cost across the enterprise.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Boston, MA, USA
• Pay: $120000–$225000 yearly
• Team: Senior role within the Enterprise Architecture practice, collaborating with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, and architects.
• Mission: Develop architecture strategies, roadmaps, patterns, and guidance that enable business innovation, reduce complexity, manage technology risk, and optimize cost across the enterprise.
• Tech Stack: domain-driven design, API and event-driven integration, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, data platforms, AI platforms, reusable platform services, TOGAF, Open Group standards

What You’ll Actually Do
• Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Roadmaps: Develop and maintain architecture strategies and roadmaps for assigned platforms, ensuring alignment with broader technology strategy and business priorities.
• Reference Architectures, Standards, and Patterns: Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, patterns, principles, and standards that enable consistent, scalable, secure, and resilient technology delivery.
• Architecture Governance and Technology Risk Management: Participate in governance processes and assess architecture risks to ensure significant technology decisions align with enterprise standards.
• Platform and Product Architecture Partnership: Work directly with Technology Platform CIOs, product owners, and solution architects to shape platform and product architecture roadmaps.
• Technology Evaluation, Innovation, and Industry Research: Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and industry research that inform enterprise architecture direction and investment decisions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, coupled with a senior career level in technology leadership or architecture.
• Experience: 10 or more years developing architecture strategies, roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, patterns, and governance materials in a complex enterprise environment.
• Skills: Strong understanding of modern architecture practices including cloud-native, infrastructure as code, and data/AI platforms; executive communication; influencing stakeholders; architecture governance processes; and effective collaboration with technology leaders and risk partners.
• Bonus: Advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred, along with familiarity with architecture frameworks, modeling approaches, TOGAF, or Open Group standards.