Our Client Currently looking for Executive Director, Application Architecture

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Lead the Application Architecture Function

• Lead, develop, and set direction for a team of application architects, each retaining individual domain focus across clearing, risk, data, APIs, and integrations
• Establish and enforce architecture standards across applications, integration patterns, API design, tech stack selection, and software design patterns
• Own the Application Architecture vision: shape the technology strategy for applications and integrations — architecting systems built to withstand stress, change, and uncertainty, where resilient design is the standard for every solution we deliver
• Ensure consistent application of enterprise standards across all delivery teams

Define and Enforce Standards

• Develop and maintain Solution Design documentation standards in collaboration with the rest of the OTSI team
• Enforce design patterns and architectural guardrails across teams delivering on both legacy and greenfield systems
• Establish non-functional requirements standards: performance, scalability, fault tolerance, observability as first-class architecture concerns
• Coordinate with Platform Architecture to ensure application designs reflect infrastructure reality and operational constraints

Partner Across the Organization

• Serve as the primary architecture partner to Engineering, Product, Financial Risk
• Management, and Quantitative Risk Management
• Collaborate with Security, QA, and Governance/Risk to ensure architectural decisions satisfy regulatory requirements including Regulation SCI and CPMI-IOSCO principles
• Engage with Product Owners, Technology Leads, and senior leadership to translate business requirements into durable architectural strategies
• Provide architecture input and review for vendor selections, technology evaluations, and major program decisions

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Conduct architecture and design reviews with enough rigor to catch problems before they reach production
• Establish feedback loops between operational incidents, post-mortems, and forward looking architecture decisions
• Drive team engagement with industry trends, emerging patterns, and evolving standards ensuring  architecture practice does not fall behind the curve
• Track and report on architecture health metrics and standards adoption across the portfolio

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop a team

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