Project Overview

This role supports the Client Journey program, a multi-year initiative aimed at streamlining the onboarding process for institutional clients at a Fortune 500 investment firm. The effort focuses on reengineering business workflows and aligning supporting applications to achieve a scalable, efficient, and modernized target state. The program is not focused on infrastructure and involves no hands-on coding.

POSITION REQUIRES YOU TO BE ON-SITE TWO DAYS A WEEK IN BALTIMORE, MD. HARD REQUIREMENT

Role Summary

As a Solution Architect within the Enterprise Architecture function, this individual will lead the definition and delivery of target-state application architectures supporting institutional client onboarding. This includes:

• Defining architecture blueprints for approval by the Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Partnering with business and delivery teams to ensure technical alignment with business outcomes
• Driving modernization of legacy, manual processes through application-level design and cloud-native patterns

Responsibilities

• Develop and document future-state application architectures aligned with enterprise strategy
• Lead architectural design sessions and work with development teams to ensure feasibility and adoption
• Guide architecture for workflow automation and client lifecycle management
• Contribute to digital transformation efforts by evaluating cloud-native patterns and services
• Ensure all designs meet governance and ARB standards
• Align architecture deliverables to the business vision, focusing on institutional sales enablement and onboarding workflows

Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in IT architecture, with a focus on applications (not infrastructure)
• Strong background in solution architecture, application design, or enterprise architecture
• Experience architecting solutions for client onboarding or workflow-heavy applications
• Experience with cloud-native application design (Azure or AWS – Google Cloud not desired)
• Understanding of business process orchestration platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Appian – SME-level expertise not required)
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture standards, frameworks, and governance processes
• Experience in the asset management industry or similar regulated financial services environments (banking experience not necessary)