Solution Architect

About UsWellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.About the RoleSolution Architect, Technologywellington managementWellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.Tracing our roots to 1928, Wellington Management is one of the world's largest independent investment management firms. With over US$1 trillion in assets under management as of 30 September 2025, we serve as a trusted adviser to institutional clients and mutual fund sponsors in over 60 countries. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome people with diverse life experiences, fresh ideas, and specialized subject matter expertise.THE POSITIONThe Solution Architect serves as the lead architecture partner for one or more business products, platforms, or delivery teams. This role is responsible for translating business objectives, product strategies, and enterprise architecture guidance into practical solution designs that are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with Wellington's technology standards.The Solution Architect works directly with Product Owners, Engineers, Technical Leads, Product Managers, Delivery Leads, and Enterprise Architects to shape the technical direction of product teams. The role balances short-term delivery needs with long-term architecture sustainability, ensuring solutions support both immediate business outcomes and future platform evolution.The individual in this role must be comfortable moving between strategy, design, engineering, governance, and stakeholder engagement. They help teams solve complex technology challenges, manage dependencies, define non-functional requirements, and make effective technology decisions while maintaining alignment with Wellington's architecture principles and standards.Success in this role comes through technical leadership, collaboration, influence, and a demonstrated ability to help teams deliver high-quality solutions that create measurable business value.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES1. Solution Design and Architecture LeadershipLead architecture and technical design activities for one or more products, platforms, or solution domains.Translate business requirements, product vision, and operational objectives into end-to-end solution architectures.Create logical, physical, integration, data, security, and deployment architectures for business initiatives.Ensure solutions balance functionality, scalability, maintainability, resiliency, performance, cost, and operational supportability.Produce architecture artifacts and design documentation that clearly communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs.Guide engineering teams through architecture implementation and ensure design intent is maintained throughout delivery.2. Product Roadmaps and Technology PlanningPartner with Product Owners and technology leaders to define architecture roadmaps and technical runways that support product evolution.Identify technology dependencies, architecture constraints, modernization opportunities, and technical debt reduction initiatives.Ensure architecture investment decisions align with product priorities and long-term platform goals.Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure product roadmaps are aligned with enterprise technology strategies.Support planning activities by identifying solution risks, required architecture investments, and implementation sequencing.Help teams make informed build-versus-buy decisions based on business value, risk, complexity, and strategic alignment.3. Architecture Governance and Standards AlignmentEnsure solution designs adhere to Wellington's architecture standards, patterns, principles, and governance requirements.Participate in Architecture Review Board reviews and architecture working groups where required.Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to address architecture findings, design recommendations, and governance requirements.Maintain traceability between architecture decisions, business requirements, and approved standards.Contribute reusable patterns, design approaches, and implementation learnings back into the architecture community.Support post-implementation architecture validations and design reviews.Support post-implementation architecture reviews and validations to confirm that delivered solutions remain aligned with approved architecture direction and non-functional requirements.Partner with technology risk, information security, infrastructure, data, and AI governance teams to ensure architecture decisions appropriately address control, compliance, resilience, and operational expectations.4. Application, Data, and Integration ArchitectureDesign solutions that leverage strategic enterprise platforms, shared services, APIs, events, governed data products, and reusable business capabilities.Define data flows, integration strategies, event-driven communication patterns, and service interactions across systems.Ensure application architectures support scalability, high availability, operational resiliency, and data quality requirements.Promote loosely coupled architectures and standard integration models that reduce complexity and improve reuse.Partner with platform teams to leverage common capabilities while minimizing duplication of technology investments.Ensure data is sourced from trusted, governed, and strategically aligned enterprise data assets.5. Engineering Partnership and Delivery EnablementServe as the senior technical advisor to engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.Collaborate with developers, technical leads, and DevSecOps teams to resolve design issues and implementation challenges.Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical decision-making activities where architectural guidance is required.Help define technical acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.Support Proofs of Concept, prototypes, and technology evaluations required to validate architectural approaches.Guide teams on cloud-native design, infrastructure-as-code, automation, platform engineering, and deployment strategies.6. Security, Resiliency, and Operational ExcellenceEnsure solutions meet security, availability, resiliency, recoverability, observability, and compliance requirements.Design architectures that incorporate monitoring, logging, telemetry, fault tolerance, and recovery capabilities.Partner with Information Security, Infrastructure, Risk Management, and Operations teams to address architecture risks proactively.Ensure systems are designed for operational stability and long-term maintainability.Consider supportability, service levels, and operational ownership in all architecture decisions.Promote architecture approaches that reduce operational complexity and improve platform reliability.7. Stakeholder Engagement and Technical LeadershipBuild strong relationships with Product Owners, delivery teams, platform leaders, and business stakeholders.Communicate architecture recommendations in clear business and technical terms.Drive decision-making through facts, analysis, and architectural expertise rather than authority alone.Facilitate architecture workshops, design sessions, and technical planning discussions.Mentor engineers and emerging architects in architecture methods, design patterns, and technology best practices.Act as a trusted advisor who helps teams navigate complex technical decisions and competing priorities.QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, or related discipline.8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, platform architecture, or related technology leadership roles.Demonstrated experience architecting complex enterprise applications and distributed systems.Strong understanding of cloud platforms, application architecture, integration patterns, event-driven architecture, APIs, microservices, and distributed computing.Experience with modern software engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and observability.Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient solutions.Strong knowledge of data architecture, integration architecture, and enterprise application design.Ability to work effectively across product, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business teams.Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.Excellent written, verbal, and executive communication abilities.Experience with architecture governance, architecture review processes, and technology standards.Prior experience in financial services, asset management, capital markets, or highly regulated industries preferred.Familiarity with architecture frameworks, modeling approaches, TOGAF, Open Group standards, or related industry architecture practices is preferred.Demonstrated ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems while maintaining momentum across multiple stakeholders and initiatives.SUCCESS PROFILEA successful Solution Architect at Wellington Management combines deep technical expertise with strong collaboration and leadership skills. They help product teams move faster by making architecture decisions early, reducing technology risk, simplifying complexity, and ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise standards and platform strategies. They are recognized for delivering practical architectures that balance business value, engineering quality, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability.ROLE SUMMARY FOR JOB POSTINGThe Solution Architect is a senior technology leader responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that enable Wellington Management's business and technology strategies. Working closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Platform Leaders, and Enterprise Architects, this role translates business objectives into practical technology architectures and guides delivery teams through successful implementation. The Solution Architect serves as the primary architecture partner for one or more product areas, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, leverage strategic platforms, manage technology risk, and deliver long-term business value. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and collaboration skills, bringing a pragmatic approach to solving complex business and technology challenges while driving innovation, quality, and operational excellence.Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That's ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to r ace, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law . If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at View email address on click.appcast.io .At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:USD 120,000 - 225,000This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.Base salary is only one component of Wellington's total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible . In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement an d paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.