Application Architect

Application Architect

Locations: Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity's value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Application Architect

The Application Architect defines application design patterns, modularity, system structure, and technical design standards to ensure solutions are scalable and maintainable. This impactful role will be critical in providing the application-layer blueprint for how Accordion's software should be built.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You'll Do:

Architecture Standards

• Define application architecture patterns, reference designs, and engineering standards
• Review major solution designs to ensure scalability, maintainability, and alignment to target-state principles
• Guide teams on modularity, APIs, service boundaries, and reusable components

Design Leadership

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Solution Architecture on target-state design decisions
• Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying architectural dependencies and technical investment needs
• Evaluate tradeoffs between speed, reuse, and long-term maintainability

Quality & Enablement

• Mentor engineering teams on design quality and architecture best practices
• Support code review and design review processes for high-impact initiatives
• Document and evolve application standards as the portfolio grows

You Have:

• 8+ years of software architecture or senior application engineering experience
• Expertise as a systems thinker, with a deep understanding of APIs, modular applications, integration patterns, and scalable system design
• Ability to communicate architecture concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortability influencing without becoming a bottleneck – you are practical and collaborative but able to balance ideal-state architecture with business needs
• Consistent commitment to reuse, clarity, and technical quality
• Experience in cloud-based and enterprise application environments
• Bachelor's degree required

You Are:

• Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $175,000 to $230,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.